Does barely two years since its first Palau Sant Jordiand rauw alejandro He has given a tremendous boost as a media character, to the sound of his gossip gags with Rosalía, but also as an artist, and his ‘show’ this Friday illustrated it with a reggaeton that goes beyond ordinary rhetoric. Perreo and erotic-festive rite, yes, but also adventurous settings, electro-pop with retro-futuristic echoes and ‘freestyle’ grafts in a session based on those two twinned albums, ‘Saturn‘ and ‘Saturn Beach‘.
Apparently his mother used to tell him that he had a gift that it was not of this world, and hence those galactic titles. Perhaps a high notion of himself remained from that. ‘Rauleeto’ is one of those who, to redouble the public’s anxiety, delays (exaggeratedly) the prelude to his entrance on the scene: a very long half hour of canned music, in the dark and with the screens spitting out advertising claims and the itinerary of the tour, in which a song by Rosalía, ‘La combi Versace’, slipped through.
First notice, because the pride of Sant Esteve ses Rovires it would end up being the great ghostly presence of the night. The inspirer, first, of her most lewd verses: ‘Don’t let go of me’, the bearer of a lyric that would have given a heart attack to Corin Tellado (“I love how you put you’ / a good bitch in all the positions’ & rdquor;), a piece that Rauw married with achievements such as ‘De Carolina’, which proudly alludes to the Puerto Rican municipality of this name: “We are already” rich’, before’ we were’ poor’ / Now in Spain they don’t’ shout: ‘Olé!’ & rdquor;.
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Simple show, with video and dancers, without more, focused on the character and his songbook rich in mischief (‘Tousled hearts, wake up tuned with female voices and rich in bass), and open to pattern changes. There was the romantic Rauw, bluntly, who after the vaporous ‘Museo’ and the playful ‘Strawberry kiwi’, evoked his vaunted sentimental breakup when presenting ‘here today‘: “It’s hard to forget someone you imagined spending the rest of your life with, right? & rdquor;.
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And more explicit still was his unexpected assault, “only in Barcelona & rdquor; (she didn’t sing it the other night in Valencia) to ‘Hayami hana’, the long-suffering ballad, dedicated to Rosalía Vila, which she published a few weeks ago. “I will never touch her again in my life& rdquor ;, he assured (we’ll see). And another surprise: the duet of ‘Beso’, with his ex giving him the reply on the screen.
Rauw also made us think of Rosalía when she spoke to us in a Catalan that is “una mica millor& rdquor ;, he presumed, that the last time. But, although he played mercilessly with the absent figure, the session reminded us that his ‘hits’ are his and no one else’s. Like that ‘Everything about you‘ that reverberated in Sant Jordi with a spectacular tropical synth-pop.