Miami first met Rosalía again in March 2018 when she carried out at Flamenco Rave, a showcase hosted by native nonprofit FUNDarte that includes a few of the main figures of her nation’s modern flamenco motion, together with her debut album collaborator Raül Refree.
She’d already undergone a stark musical transformation when she returned for a non-public efficiency on the Faena Hotel Miami Beach simply 9 months later throughout Art Basel. That got here on the heels of the discharge of her breakthrough album, El Mal Querer, which granted her important acclaim and recognition outdoors of the flamenco world. By the time she performed her first public ticketed occasion within the metropolis, she was singing reggaeton tracks alongside the likes of Bad Bunny and Nicky Jam on the former American Airlines Arena. Both her sonic experimentation and her star energy accelerated in 17 brief months at a velocity solely Motomamis can obtain.
Taking the stage Saturday evening in thick black-and-white leather-based exuding the rigidity of rubber tires and flanked by dancers carrying light-up Motomami bike helmets, Rosalía opened together with her ode to transformation, Motomami opener “Saoko.”
“Me contradigo, yo me transformo/Soy to’a’ las cosa’, yo me transformo,” she sang because the digital camera zipped and zoomed round her: “I contradict myself, I rework/I’m all issues, I rework.“
The digital camera work was probably the most notable elements of the present’s minimalist, futurist design. The operator wore a stabilized digital camera rig used to weave across the singer and her backup dancers with ease, leading to whirling close-ups and foreshortened perspective views that made the singer seem gigantic as she pounded the stage throughout flamenco choreo breakdowns. The intimate view gave the manufacturing the texture of a Homecoming-style, behind-the-scenes documentary, as if the gang was witnessing the filming and enhancing of a high-budget live performance movie in actual time.
The set leaned closely on the experimental Motomami, the singer’s newest album and a shoo-in for this 12 months’s greatest albums lists. Shortening the supporting tour’s setlist for her one-hour III Points set, she skipped performances of “De Plata,” from her debut album Los Ángeles, and El Mal Querer single “Pienso en Tu Mirá.” She solely revisited the breakthrough album for “Malamente” and “De Aquí No Sales,” the latter of which foreshadowed her subsequent sonic evolution by punctuating verses with aggressive bike sounds. Rosalía additionally used the monitor to showcase the bridge between the 2 seemingly disparate information, as she seamlessly mashed up the El Mal Querer monitor with Motomami‘s “Bulerías.”
The slower moments didn’t translate as nicely to the competition stage. Though they shone a welcome highlight on the artist’s classically educated pipes, the gang’s depth dipped noticeably throughout songs resembling “G3 N15,” which doubtless would have sparkled in a theater. The distinction with the gang’s eruption on the first notes of the following music, “Linda,” made it clear how a lot the power had dimmed for the homesick ballad. One notable exception was “Hentai,” probably the most tender piano ballads ever written about dick-riding, which the gang sang with vigor.
The singer started to stray from Motomami towards the tip of the set, notably throughout a medley of her standalone reggaeton singles, together with her verse on the remix of Sech’s “Relación” and Ozuna collaboration “Yo x Ti, Tu x Mi.” She paid homage to Daddy Yankee with an interlude remix of “Gasolina” earlier than shifting on to mambo monitor “Despechá,” a style of her newest sonic stopover.
She wrapped up the set with 2019’s “Con Altura,” the one that signaled her sharp flip into reggaeton and Latin pop, earlier than returning to the stage to carry out Motomami‘s “Chicken Teriyaki” and “Cuuuuuuuuuute.”
“Se creen especial/Como un año en Miami que nieva,” she sang on the final monitor, simply because the rain started to sprinkle over the disco ball. It did not snow final evening, however Rosalía ensured we nonetheless witnessed one thing particular: alchemy.
Setlist:
– “Saoko”
– “Candy”
– “Bizcochito”
– “La Fama”
– “De Aquí No Sales”/”Bulerías”
– “Motomami”
– “G3 N15”
– “Linda”
– “Besos Moja2” (A capella)
– “La Noche de Anoche”
– “Hentai”
– Reggaeton montage
– “La Combi Versace”
– “Relación (Remix)”
– “TKN”
– “Yo x Ti, Tu x Mi”
– “Gasolina” (Interlude)
– “Despechá”
– “Malamente”
– “Delirio de Grandeza”
– “LAX” (Interlude)
– “Con Altura”
Encore:
– “Chicken Teriyaki”
– “Cuuuuuuuuuute”