The American artist Katy Perryunquestionably one of the pop divas of the last decade, performed this Sunday at the St. George Palace of Barcelona with a concert marked by the countless hymns from his repertoire and a futuristic video game staging.
The singer appeared in Montjuic more than half an hour late, which almost caused a dozen waves in the pavilion to liven up the wait, after the screening of a video that presented Perry as the savior of humanity in the face of a world threatened by artificial intelligence.
Thus, in an atmosphere of a futuristic gymkhana, the Californian has descended on an infinity-shaped stage, suspended from a cylindrical structure, to open the night with ‘Artificial’.
When stepping on stage for the first time, the artist, dressed inor a robot warriorhas been surrounded by her army of cyborg dancers, who have accompanied her in Chained to the Rhythm y Teary Eyesbefore the first chords of Dark Horse They stirred up the pavilion.
pop anthems
From there the two-mile moment of the evening, in which Katy Perry has chained California Gurls y Teenage Dreamtwo of the indisputable pop anthems of the past decade, mounted on an Atlas-shaped structure holding up the world.
He has also rescued Teenage Dream (2010), a second album with which he achieved five number one hits in the United States, Last Friday Night (T. G. I. F.), Peacock y Wide Awake.
They have not been missing, as it could not be otherwise if the night was going recover hymns, Hot n Cold y I Kissed a Girltwo cuts from their debut album One of the boys (2008) that have been chanted with absolute devotion by the Barcelona public.
Once past this screen, Perry has advanced to 143an album published in 2024 that It did not convince either the public or the critics.something that has been reflected in the subdued attitude of Sant Jordi towards Nirvana, Crush y I’m his, he’s mine.
However, it has not cost the Californian anything to win back the pavilion, since in the next block, created inor ‘choose your own adventure’, It was the public that decided to interpret Double Rainbow.
Absolutely full
The ballad, sung accompanied by an acoustic guitar and a keyboard while the cell phones 18.000 personas that have filled the Sant Jordi illuminated the space, has given way to Perry inviting five of his fans to come up, whom he has asked to translate into Catalan that the next song would be Unconditionally.
Once again involved in her role as a video game heroine, the Californian has fought against the bad guy who wanted to steal the party to the rhythm of E. T.which was then followed by the very celebrated Part of me y Riseperformed with an extra force to impose good.
Momentarily freed from futuristic performance, Perry, in jeans and white t-shirthas presented his new song Bandaidbefore spending the last level of the game on a mechanical butterfly.
Thus, the artist has flown over the Palau Sant Jordi singing Roarand then, already on the stage in the shape of infinity, present his band with Lifetimes background and close the show with the safety pin Firework.
This has been the first stop of the American in Spainwho will carry The Lifetimes Tour to the Movistar Arena in Madrid next Tuesday, November 11 before leaving for Asia.
