Rosalía's words have sounded tonight at the Wizink Center in Madrid not as the end of a tour, but as the end of a cycle. "I don't know when I will sing again in a place like this and some songs like these," the singer announced to 15,000 people in the final leg of her electrified concert. "It has meant a lot to me," concluded the excited sentence.

Emotion is the state in which the songs of the Catalan artist always seem to be invariably situated. And he has songs of many types, the flamenco flamenco of his first album; the crimped necklace of 'Evil Will', all united as rare Siamese sisters; and those of postmodern Latin pop that have illuminated their walk through 2019 as a yellow tile road.

All those songs so different should form a whole in the show tonight, and they have done so only in part, fortunately. Respecting the enormous nuances of her really short repertoire is something desirable, and she has done so with a concert that went through very different moments of style while the staging gave unity to the ensemble, with a play of lights that strongly underlined the contrasts of music and six dancers whose choreographies are an extension of the mix of flamenco and urban rhythms of music.

And about music you have to talk. On that ocean of serious that sometimes came to eat up to the voice, in a good way. Dark bass that seemed to come from the bottom of a disco, that kind of bass of modern electronics, not Latin, not American, but English dubstep 15 years ago, and on that deep and dense vibration as sweat throw whatever he wants to El Guincho, producer of 'El mal querer' and obsessive expert of sound design. From that sanctuary of giant bass and blows of effect as flashes is where Rosalía's songs came from.

And what does this young woman with venus thighs offer? Rosalia sells excitement, almost a rage. Each song is performed with the vigor of an athlete. All power. All energy. A hurricane whose eye is always Rosalia, singing dominant, powerful. Flamenquísima, in general, a leave highlighted by a quartet of palm trees and singers.

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