Bad Gyal stirs up a packed Sant Jordi

One day after bringing Chulo to light, Bad Gyal did the same thing last night in his musical career: sold out at his first Palau Sant Jordi.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
13 February 2023 Monday 20:09
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Bad Gyal stirs up a packed Sant Jordi

One day after bringing Chulo to light, Bad Gyal did the same thing last night in his musical career: sold out at his first Palau Sant Jordi. But with an important nuance, and that is that the Maresme has achieved it on its own merits and not by a chance of fate, a cocky click or simple face. No, last night before the 17,000 unconditional fans that filled the Montjuïc venue –mostly girls and from the LGTBI collective–, Alba Farelo collected the well-deserved fruit of years of work, dedication, exposure, criticism and also praise and recognition.

In addition to the value of succeeding in a big way in your own home, last night's party-concert-show served to see a much larger proposal in terms of scenery, choreography, lights, visuals and sound. And the other added element is that the singer presented / advanced fragments of half a dozen hitherto unpublished songs, and that she plans to include in her first album and that will be titled, she revealed last night, La joia and it will be out this year. Of course, all with reggaeton, deambow and dancehall as a stylistic mortar.

In fact, and as we said at the beginning, the concert took place 24 hours after his fans could already enjoy the recording of the song Chulo, although he was already a regular at his concerts. Proof of this is that yesterday's attendee must already have it incorporated into his playlist, acclaiming her when she said in her peculiar way that “cool (cool; move your ass)/he has a face that gives you hard in bed (hard, hard; you can be seen)/I know, daddy, that you are very cool (ay)”. Some lyrics that have been and are one of the columns of his musical proposal as is the perreo on stage.

In itself, the intense session of music, dance and foul language started ten minutes later than expected –9 pm– with a first dose in the form of Blin blin and Slim thick, which was followed by fifteen more pills, among which there were these novelties (some, very short pieces) and all its most celebrated cuts. And from the first moment that was non-stop, since the devoted crowd began to listen to, for example, the first bars of the aforementioned Blin blin, to the rhythm of dembow and with that lyric that says "I report to your area, every day more assy / For this body you move to Barcelona / The sandals with blin blin, the Lil' Kim picket”.

Mala Gyal has already been seen at major events in the city, at festivals such as Sónar or Primavera and it is thanks to him that she is taking this great step forward. On both shores of the Atlantic, and now with a great show format where dancing –with four dancers and two male dancers– and a very physical set design is of great importance, as could be seen when she danced amidst the popular clamor.

There was no pause, then, with the breathless parade of Pussy, Without a license, You are a bom bom, Hookah, Tremendous ass, Learning sex, Candela, Flow 2000 or I'm still the same (which he dedicated to his family), in addition to the infallible Zorra, Sexy, Nueva York or the relatively recent Real G that he recorded with Quevedo and linked to La prendo (very Gyal/Farelo: “baby, if you want to' I'll hit/kill' you, I'll turn on ”). In the encores, a bombastic end of the party –and with a change of costumes: a shiny little dress in reddish tones– with Alocao and the curtain falls to the rhythm of, how could it be otherwise, Fiebre, his first hit.