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It doesn't matter if

Dua Lipa

came from filling stadiums in

Barcelona and Madrid

just a week ago.

The reappearance of the British singer of Kosovar Albanian origin at

Primavera Sound

could only certify one thing: there is a desire to hit the dance floor with force.

Time and time again, it is seen that it is about making up for lost time.

And who better to set the pace than the author of the soundtrack of our traumatic pandemic confinement.

The rules are set by Dua Lipa.

Come on!

Let's get physical!

First war cry to kick off a concert that turned the Barcelona festival from Thursday to Friday into a macro dance floor.

But the real ones.

Because, as Dua Lipa claims in her

Physical

anthem , it's time to jump into the physical plane.

Of touching each other as if the Covid nightmare had remained in that, in a bad dream.

Or, precisely for that reason, because we know that it was not.

And a Dua Lipa who released her second album ( Future Nostalgia

) in the fateful month of March 2020

shouts it from the rooftops . We had to settle for letting loose in the living room.

That's why there was a desire to physically jump on the dance floor.

The British know it.

She found out when her

Studio 2054

experiment was confirmed to be a hit.

When live music disappeared from our lives, Dua Lipa reinvented the concept with a streaming

concert

followed by a global audience of five million people.

If with

Studio 2054 he

replaced the tour to present the album, the re-release on the stages of

Future Nostalgia

has definitively seated Dua Lipa on the throne of pop.

And with a return to the

dance pop

of the 90s included, as could not be less in the one who also sits down as a reference of the so-called Y2K aesthetic (recovering the not always easy looks with which we entered the millennium).

In this case, the queen of pop claimed her crown in Barcelona by singing -and recounting- her

De ella New rules

De ella.

Her court, by the way, is made up of the spectacular dance troupe that breathed even more energy into a real

show

from start to finish.

On the Pull&Bear stage, the winner of three Grammy Awards seduced a devoted audience with

Love again

(

touch me

, cheered up again),

Cool

,

Pretty please

,

Break my heart

,

Be the one

... Far from dying down, the party continued with the French

Angèle

hand in hand with Dua Lipa in

Fever

.

Until the madness broke out (it seemed that he had already done it but...) with

One kiss

.

Not in vain, between song and song Dua Lipa did not get tired of repeating: "I love you very much".

Kisses in the form of lips (and balloons) flew among the public.

The foreshadowing of what was to come with

Levitating

.

"Are you ready for a trip to the moon?"

Said and done, because there was.

Future Nostalgia

and

Don't start me now

put the finishing touch to a night in which there was no shortage of people wondering if Dua Lipa was doing

playback

.

It mattered little to the thousands of his followers who applauded furiously.

Including that security guard who, infected by the party, couldn't help but set the pace with his foot.

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