2024-07-13 01:02:16
For years now, any Eurofan has been very upset when someone tells him that Eurovision is pointless and only plays the biggest hits at the summer beach bar. Maneskin’s win in 2021 was a breath of fresh air for the competition and silenced many. Italy has taught that Eurovision can be taken very seriously, that one can come up with different proposals and genres that are not usually seen in a competition of this nature, where there are baladones, mid-tempos and pop songs with diva choreography impossible the general tone.
The Italian band blew up Eurovision and became instantly famous. It’s rare for a Eurovision contender to become an opening stadium sellout, but in three years Maneskin managed to achieve that and was a pioneer even at macro festivals like Mad Cool. It’s no wonder his live performance is energetic, playful and unmistakably erotic. Damiano and his band are rockers and they showed it again at the venue in Madrid, where they were given the biggest stage and the place of honor to close the day on Friday.
As Damiano said, this was a special concert because it was their first time to headline Spain. In just an hour and a quarter they showed why it is more than deserved. Despite the short – too – short nature of the concert, Maneskin was not only disappointed, but attracted and swept away. Thousands of people were dumped on it at 1 in the morning. They did it with a show that they tested and is bomb proof. They take a lighting structure similar to that of their stadium concerts to their festival tour, and use it in a set list that they play non-stop. In half an hour seven of his hits appeared.
They charmed each other with their characteristic charisma, and on top of that, chatting in Spanish with an Italian accent. Because it must be recognized that they are also a band that exudes sensuality and sexuality. Damiano arrived with a mustache and a tied shirt that he took off in Mamamia, which made everyone in attendance go crazy. Victoria, with a sequin dress and its continuous descent into the hole; Thomas with his excellent guitar solos and Ethan with that wagging tail that was a hypnotic pulse, accompanied him in his games. Everyone has their moment to enjoy. The only stops the singer makes are to provide instrumental bridges that the band shine through.
The only thing that can be criticized is that they know what works and they hardly touch it. His set list has not changed in over two years. They haven’t released any songs either (but the Honey (are you coming?) That he did play in Madrid), and that makes the show, although impeccable, start to be repetitive (the thing about people coming up with Kool Kids is a perfect example). It is a band that will win when their repertoire increases and there is a better chance of finding a set list that could surprise. This could be, in fact it is repeated in the encore I want to be your slave because there aren’t many more bullets left in the chamber and it’s better to close them with a bang than a bang.
Maneskin was the finishing touch to a day that took him a while to warm up. Although the day was destined for rock music, Mad Cool took too long to pick up the pace, and it wasn’t because of the quality of the concerts. Black Pumas confirmed itself as one of the surprises on the music scene recently with a powerful concert, where its singer, Eric Burton, left his skin almost literally. The sweat that fell on his forehead under the heat of the lights and the temperature of Madrid was proof of this.
It doesn’t make me care. Nor did people respond as they should. It didn’t matter that it was already 9:30pm on a Friday in July, Mad Cool’s main stage was too big for the space and the cold due to the lack of enthusiasm of a large part of the audience. It was not fair, because the concert given by the Texas band was lively, with that mix of soul and funk that made them a slightly discordant note in a day full of canonical rock like Sum 41, who stopped in Madrid with what is his tour safe They said it was alive again and people fed them as a sign of displeasure, but as they said, they have been doing this for 30 years. “The world has enough of us.”
With them it was noticed for the first time that people went there to jump, have a good time and even do a few pogos. Those who haven’t done much in their lives, but suddenly find Mad Cool is a great way to release the energy of the week. It was 11:00 pm when Derrick Whibley asked people to go “a little crazy.” He did it after chaining three of his key hits Inspiration, Hell Song y Over My Head (Better Off Dead).
Sum 41 meets all the requirements of the rock concert handbook: from the first song there were lots of ‘fucks’, fire galore on stage, confetti, smoke and glasses in the air, which is a lot to ask, because of each. A glass costs two euros and a beer seven and a half euros, so the waste hurts in the name of rock and roll. But people decided it was worth it, because it was the first minute of the night that they seemed to have a good time. In a way they were the opening act for Maneskin, who came 30 years later to renew rock-filling tracks with new forms, less testosterone, more ambiguity, but the same infallible weapons.
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