Tonight the Ziggo Dome is paying homage to an ecstatic soccer stadium. A whole bunch of flags from nearly all South American international locations are flying, the gang is screaming on the prime of their lungs and everyone seems to be carrying membership colours. The colours of Colombian famous person Karol G, that’s: lengthy hair, hats, a number of bikinis and colourful boots. And naturally countless glitter – pink, white and purple.
Pop/reggaeton
Karol G – Mañana será bonito tour. Heard: 14/6, Ziggo Dome Amsterdam. Rep: 15/6, there.
There’s complete soccer and there’s complete leisure. Karol G presents the latter. Friday was the primary of two evenings that may finest be described as a loopy celebration of the so-called música urbana, the Latin American music motion of which Carolina Giraldo Navarro (33), or Karol G for brief, is the chief. Together with her heat voice and mix of uncooked reggaeton, conventional Colombian music and poppy hooks stuffed with catchy melody strains, she gained a Grammy this yr for her album Tomorrow shall be good and have become Billboard’s ‘Girl of the Yr 2024’. Karol G thus joins a listing of Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Madonna, amongst others. And that utterly in Spanish. There’s not even a phrase of English.
Karol G within the Ziggo Dome, June 14, 2024. Picture Andreas Terlaak
Female power
That’s exactly why the chemistry between Karol G and her completely Spanish-speaking viewers is so electrical, nearly erotic tonight. Or, chemistry, maybe full idolatry is a greater description. Conversely, Karol G additionally clearly loves her viewers. The famous person begins completely on time, doing a lap across the round stage within the middle of the room midway by way of the present. She takes her time, lets her followers sing alongside (scream), takes selfies and offers kisses. All whereas she sings in tune, makes jokes effortlessly and smiles on the digicam. The virtually three-hour present is a sort of reside music video. And prime sport: dancing, leaping, singing and acrobatics on movable stage items (which rise as much as six meters into the air), in between fireworks, laser beams and metallic sharks.
The distinctly female power actually sucks the viewers in. This may increasingly even be as a result of the musicá urbana was carried worldwide by males corresponding to Unhealthy Bunny and J Balvin. The truth that Karol G is now so immensely common together with her distinctly pink, but uncooked feminism is a response to this. Or, uncooked… unapologetic is the phrase, with out disgrace or excuse.
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