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You already know that

Rigoberta Bandini

feigned this week to leave us orphans.

"In the fall I'm going to do the end of the tour and then I'll retire... for a long time," said

Paula Ribó,

that is, Rigoberta, in

La Resistencia.

Mom, mom!

We would then say on the street, with arms raised in the purest

Delacroix style,

or like poor and endearing

Marco,

don't go, mom, don't walk away from me... In the face of social stupor, she herself clarified that it is not that he is going to retire 'completely', but that in the fall, when his first album is published and he does the presentation tour, he will go to "live under a coconut tree to create more songs".

That is to say: that 2023 will be the year of rest and relaxation for her.

For now, and with the scare still in our bodies, we continue dancing to the stunning finalist of

Benidorm Fest,

who this summer travels

Spain

from festival to festival spreading euphoria like that squirrel that could cross the peninsula without touching the ground.

He has almost 20 concerts on the agenda at festivals such as

Bilbao BBK Live,

where yesterday he offered a memorable show, full of fun, great songs, party electronics between europop, house and technopop, arms in the air, tits in the air and dancing a little rare.

"Guaranteed party", the singer promised at the beginning, and it was a big party.

The Catalan is becoming more and more comfortable on stage, surrounded by that strange family of dancers and musicians (including her partner, comedian

Esteban Navarro),

who wag like dogs without a collar and enjoy themselves like pigs in the mud.

They have a good time and make people have even more fun.

Bilbao BBK Live

The show almost begins and almost ends with

Ay mama,

the song with which she came second at Benidorm Fest and which has made her famous, after a couple of years as the new Cinderella of 'indie' pop.

First he interprets it in its slowest version, the one with the subtitle

Genesis,

and then in its 'uncontrolled party in the palace of the mirror ball' mode, which is not a subtitle, but the sensation of euphoria that it produces even though we have already heard four million times.

By the way, there is no mirror ball but a whole backstage background that evokes the glitter of a disco, because disco is the music itself: an enjoyable electronica conceived to transform each song into a dance floor 'hit'.

See, for example

, In Spain we called Soledad, the song that

Pedro Sánchez

already paraphrased so freshly last year ,

and that sounds very Spanish and very modern in equal parts, suck on that.

Even his version of the Eurovision

La, la, la

de

Massiel

sounds like a disco, a disco with a bit of verbena, something like that, and very funny.

She also adapts

Mocedades

(

When you are born

between technazo and reggaeton and with perreo included) and

Fofó, Miliki and Fotito

(her recent feminist version of

Así bailaba

), which reached its apotheosis in Bilbao with

Amaia

as a guest.

And she sings

Julio Iglesias,

his song inspired by, well,

Julio Iglesias,

and blows up the speakers with

Perra,

a savagery, and

Too many drugs,

a lack of control.

The people had such a good time that in the end you could read on their lips: don't leave us, mom.

But yesterday at Bilbao BBK Live you could also see the

Pet Shop Boys,

with a wonderful show, as elegant as it is sophisticated, on

Neil Tennat's 67th birthday.

His concert began static and did not stop growing progressively, in a cycle of linked songs almost without breaks that reached its climax when at the end some of the most popular hymns of his repertoire were played, celebrated and chanted by a devoted mass.

From

Suburbia

to

Being Boring,

through

Always on my mind, Go West, It's a Sin, West End Girls

or their version of

Where the Streets Have No Name.

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