It has been a year and a half since that of Sant Esteve Sesroviras hit Malamente on the Sónar, and six months since the great event that led to the presentation of El Mal Querer at Primavera Sound, whose repertoire of about twenty titles, which includes his first album -Los Angeles (2017) -, only three singles have been added since then. Throughout all this time, in reality very short, the Rosaliamania has been so and so intense that the expectations before this new, and double, Barcelona appointment, in a Palau Sant Jordi with capacity for 15,000 spectators where he will act again today, They were especially in pricking the balloon of a possible tiredness with an end of apotheosic party, an epilogue of gold to everything we have lived thanks to El Mal Querer, that milestone in chapters of toxic romance. And so it has been.

Polito, a dancer of pure gypsy strain, who had already opened for Madonna and Beyoncé, was in charge of heating the environment by tapping hard until the diva appeared. Rosalia, always marking her leg, appeared dressed in red, and seconded by eight matching dancers, which Coven of Suspiria left the Pirelli calendar. And he opened the fire, faithful to the script of these last months, with the infallible I think of your eyes, as if officiating Mass for his thousands of parishioners delivered. A pallet followed , the last single, whose polygon aggression imposes, and perhaps gives clues to where Rosalia will go, once she has crowned this tour, on December 10, at the WiZink Center in Madrid.

The mobiles were turned on with Barefoot in the Park, his romantic duet with James Blake who, in the absence of the interested party, sounded a bit strange. As if his pre-recorded voice came from Beyond. More exciting still a Catalina a capella, who dedicated to her singing teacher, Chiqui de la Línea, who was present in the room. The audience, especially the youngest, vibrated especially with Millònaria, his hit in Catalan, and the whole room stood up when he chained the most danceable rhythms of Yo x Ti, Tu x Mi, With height and Aute cuture, heading to the final traca-tra of Malamente, chanted by the feverish crowd. And that's how it was, in just an hour and a half, a recital of hits, which not surprisingly proved less splendid. Rosalia summed up the one that, once again thanking the public, has been "the best year of his life". It remains to be known, and that is the great unknown, what a future will hold for him, in which we imagine that he will remain allied with El Guincho, co-producer of El Mal Querer, and an unavoidable presence to the controls in the room.

You have to trust everything to your ambition. As everyone knows, Rosalía's planetary success, which has been triumphing since March with the tour of El Mal Querer on both sides of the Atlantic, is not only the fruit of her undeniable talent at all levels - as a singer, songwriter, dancer and producer - but also of his ambition. A healthy and creative ambition, but as disproportionate as its long fingernails to Fu-Manchu, which has led it to dominate the international mainstream , and return home on blasts, like a bright star whose exact precedents are unknown.

But going for everyone, even if it is expensive, always causes suspicion. There are annoys, and Rosalia has been accused of everything and more, mainly of appropriating flamenco - a music she fell in love with as a teenager, sacrificing everything to live up to it - and bleaching urban music to reach an audience wider, mixing both. Precisely the keys to its success. Miley Cyrus already made it clear a few years ago, in the YouTube era , haters are a sine qua non condition for a win to be round, as Rosalía has been.

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