The ‘Bichota’ Karol G makes Madrid “more beautiful” and (more) on fire with her unprecedented feat

Karol G, the Bichota With a blinding smile and catchy, empowering songs, this Saturday, with hip-shaking and good vibes, Madrid, in the midst of a heat wave, was on fire and “more beautiful” to achieve the unprecedented feat of four full houses at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium.

“This week has been a week of great gratitude for me; you can see for yourselves what is happening here and it is four nights like this. I am a girl from home, who one day dreamed something and it was granted; do not stop dreaming because it is possible!” the Colombian proclaimed through tears at the end of a two and a half hour concert and wrapped in the Spanish flag.

Except for the attempt to bring her to a Latin festival in the suburbs in 2023 (announced and then cancelled, perhaps because this opportunity at the Bernabéu came up just then), there is no better way to illustrate her enormous growth than her previous performance in Madrid five years ago: in a room for less than a thousand people, where she performed without lights and on the bar.

Five years later, he will perform in front of a total of 240,000 people who sold out each of the dates he proposed in the renovated home of Real Madrid in hours thanks to a repertoire he has forged in this time, especially after emerging with one of the great themes of the pandemic, Equal.

Five years later, he will perform in front of some 240,000 people

After that came two successful albums, to highlight Tomorrow Will Be Nice (2023), which he sings almost entirely on this tour, both the original and the reissue Bichota Seasonwhich made her not only one of the most awarded artists of the last Latin Grammys, but also the first woman in many years with the best urban music album.

As we have seen, she leads a largely female mass that sees her as a reference, 70% of the public that has bought tickets according to Ticketmaster, as well as a large LGTBIQ+ community, with which she has made a public commitment, such as when she organized her own float at Pride 2022.

In the same way, she has put into practice her commitment to female empowerment on this tour, in which she is accompanied not only by five musicians on instruments, with a small brass section, but also by fifteen dancers with whom she composes very powerful government appeals for “the hotties”.

He began his story for the people of Madrid very punctually about a siren that ends up with a “frozen heart”, something that is difficult to transfer to Madrid at the end of July, in the middle of a heat wave outside and inside this stadium with the dome closed to reduce the complaints of the neighbours, which turns it into an oven, not only because of the fervour of the attendees.

This has been multiplied with the appearance of the protagonist on stage in a very tight nude-coloured jumpsuit with rhinestones, her characteristic pink hair and all the attitude of a star, to perform one of her greatest hits as an opener, TQG.

“Are you aware of the number of people here tonight and that I hear screaming?” he asked the 60,000 attendees, reminding them that they were going to hear many of the songs from this repertoire for the first time, including the aforementioned one. Equalone of the most anticipated moments of a “show” that has just started.

‘Tusa’ has been one of the most anticipated moments of a show that has just started

By then recent songs had already been heard such as x if we return and other earlier ones like My bedfulfilling their promise that this was going to be “the coolest night of our lives,” between giant sharks and frozen mermaids, although the most notable thing was not the stage design, but rather the energy, the community, the songs and the choreographic force around them.

“How hot!”, the artist herself acknowledged from the torrid Medellín before a show that has heated up even more with jets of fire and Bichota o The Makinónall on the pill in the center of the flower-shaped track, also there her “favorite song” from her latest album, Carolinawhich bears her real name.

They say that one of her greatest assets is her empathy, manifested here in a permanent warm smile and among constant confidences and words of affection for an audience to whom she has dedicated the tender Oceanraised on a piano-cloud, like a dream at once angelic and yet close.

In that stretch in the middle he has been able to show his voice, with other cuts like But you (without Quevedo), Mercurio o To herthe oldest of this night, from their first album, Unstoppable (2017).

Under the moral that “there is a Bichota inside each one of you” the long final stretch has begun between a garden of inflatable flowers and with the optimistic While I heal from my heart who danced holding hands with her “hippy” commune, in the most naive moment of the show (and there have been several).

Con With youhis acoustic and Spanish interpretation of the Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis, has shown that her nose for creating new hits in 2024 remains intact, just as with her latest single, If I Had Met You Before“Hey, this song is number 1 in Spain!” he stressed to a devoted Bernabéu.

There was still time for a Cairo explosive and electronic, the Mexican flavor of My ex was right y Gucci and the clothswith accordion and tuba included, and to offer a shot to the congregation as a prelude to 200 glasses.

Then the end came with that Mommies with which he hit the nail on the head again together with the other Latin star with whom he shares lyrics, Becky G, as well as with S91which did not sound in previous concerts, or the unavoidable Provence y Tomorrow Will Be Nice.