For once he is the companion and she is the protagonist of this love story, even if it is in absentia. This is how Rauw Alejandro, Rosalía's ex-partner, wanted it, who landed last night in Barcelona to continue with the Spanish phase of the Saturno World Tour, the first leg of the European tour to present her third and galactic studio album, Saturno, as well as its continuation, published this same 2023, Playa Saturno. The one from Puerto Rico arrived with all the paper sold and a few aces up its sleeve, such as the popular Todo de ti, Desesperados or new hits like Punto 40 or Lokera to satisfy a young audience eager to dance.
The long shadow of his last partner, Rosalía de Sant Esteve, was present throughout the entire performance, but especially when Hayami Hana was played live for the first time, the song that Rauw composed as a farewell to his ex, and which He stated that it will never ring again. "I never thought I was going to sing this song live, but I'm going to play it only in Barcelona and for the only time in my life," said Alejandro, who sang the song sitting on a stool, visibly moved, sometimes losing the thread of the song. With the Palau completely surrendered, the ecstasy continued when Kiss was played, a theme that Rauw also performed seated and again moved while the screens broadcast the video clip with images of his former partner.
It was the culmination of a more than vivid memory from the beginning of the evening, when La combi Versace sounded in the minutes before the concert to the shouting of the public, or when Rauw dared with the Catalan and said of Barcelona that "it is the second city where I feel at home”. "Thank you very much for coming, for the love you give me from the first day," said the man from San Juan to later show that his Catalan is "a miqueta millor."
The devoted audience at Sant Jordi received Raúl Alejandro Ocasio Ruiz like a star while he performed De Carolina, the first of the dozen songs from the new album that played last night at a concert that turned the Palau into a dance floor, an ode to perreo and Caribbean sensuality with little room for imagination in songs like Panties and braseries, where she sings “That ass goes up and down like an Impala / Guayando la buckle terminamo' en la sala”.
Between futuristic images, fireworks, and a chorus of seven male dancers and as many female dancers occupying the space of a non-existent band, the tall, athletic Puerto Rican emerged from the middle of the stage, surrounded by smoke, wearing shiny black pants and a vest and some striking sunglasses supported by sideburns that ran along the top of the skull. Striking outfit to match the scenery and the rhythms of reggaeton, electronics and pop reeled off throughout a long two-hour performance that began half an hour late.
In a perfectly synchronized and sometimes theatrical show, Rauw Alejandro combined the disco sound with reggaeton and pop and exhibited his stylistic variety with some thirty songs that he linked without interruption while asking "where are the single women?" and she picked up the underwear that was thrown at her from the public. After a start based on new songs, including Si te pegas, where Miguel Bosé collaborates (at the end of the concert Baby hello signed with Bizarrap played), the Puerto Rican brought out the artillery with classics like La Old Skul or Sexo virtual , chanted by all the Sant Jordi. He was so confident that, after playing Gatas, he gave the stage to his co-author, Chris Palace, to interpret Acho mami before Museo drew, together with Strawberry kiwi, one of the few quiet moments of the concert.
“Hi there are songs that always accompany you when you are in love,” Rauw said in a mix of languages before singing Today here. "How many have a broken heart?" He asked, to affirm that "it is difficult to forget someone with whom you imagined being the rest of your life." Reflections for the pink chronicle of the concert, after which the soft tunes of Pensándote and Shooting sounded before singing Hayami Hana and Beso to change costumes and lead a concert finale to the beat of pop and reggaeton and get the audience to dance on stage to the Dejau rhythm and thus forget after a memory that made this performance unforgettable.
