Justin Timberlake Seville of Energy and Millennial Nostalgia in his only concert in Spain | Culture
Forty degrees over 22.30. The embarrassment squeezed in the Piazza de España in Seville and although Justin Timberlake He invited to sweat the 16,000 people who crowded the fence designed by Anibal González for the Universal exhibition of 1929, removed the hunter only on the last theme. If he was hot, he noticed only in the sweat that began to appear on his face in the Ecuador of the show. In the hour and a half that lasted its only concert in Spain after 20 years without visiting our country, the American interpreter did not stop singing, dancing or smiling. A waste of energy at the rhythm of R&B and funk with which he entered his pocket in his pocket.
And to a large extent because he attracted his attention from the beginning with some of the songs of his first solo albums –Justified, Futuresex/Lovesound y Experience 20/20— who became hymns of the pop of the first decade of the 21st century and who were the ones who knew how to buzz most of the participants. Started with Mirrors, which connected seamlessly with Cry Me A River. And he no longer needed: Seville was delivered and not only because the public felt recognized in that millennial nostalgia that invaded the park of Maria Luisa, but because Timberlake gave them the first moment in which their repertoire of irreverent and acute movements, wrapped, wrapped, yes, yes, by the 14 musicians of the powerful band who accompanied him from Tennessee.
With this concert, Timberlake not only returned to Spain, but inaugurated the fifth edition of the iconic Santalucía Sevilla Fest, a competition that, as highlighted by his director, Javier Esteban, It was established as a cultural reference of the Andalusian capitalTo the point of being the third event in economic impact, after Holy Week and the fair.
The goal of this tour, The forget Tomorrow Tour, He had to promote his latest album, Everything I thought was, It was previewed in March last year and with which Timberlake intended to return to the top of the Dodge lists for almost a decade. The plan did not come out exactly as expectedPerhaps also because of the adversities that have accumulated throughout 2024: firstly, the memories of his former Britney Spears, who revealed that he urged her to abort, thus demystifying the version he sold cry Me A Riverwhere he presented it unfaithful; And then, and above all, for his arrest while driving drunk. In fact, many of the participants in the concert of this Friday in Seville did not know that the singer had taken a new album.
And he probably did not know and that’s why he concentrated most of his repertoire about his great successes. And he was not wrong, because the new problems –No angels, play and a nice acoustics of SelfishThree out of twenty – they were barely followed by the public, who seemed a little absent at the time, but, however, he fell with My love, summer love or Dress and tie. “How many have accompanied me in the last 25 or 30 years? I want to show you my gratitude and how much I love you with this when I was little. Thank you for making the dreams of a Tennessee boy,” Timberlake was sincere.
Listening to the songs that ratified him as a star, after crossing the Boyband In some way, Nsync the audience of Sivillian was back two decades ago, when those songs accompanied a moment of hope in which in the future the great recession was not glimpsed or an almost perpetual precariousness that made that millenary generation Give a bruces a very different reality that dreamed When they listened to Timberlake, then they turned into the Golden Boy of World Pop. But that melancholy did not move to the stage. From his performance it has not been detached that Timberlake is a decline artist. On the contrary, it was perfect Showman. Awind and impeccable in each of its interpretations, he infected his enthusiasm for the entire Plaza de España.
In addition, the singer, who sometimes reproaches his lack of interconnection with the public, did not stop talking to him, encouraging him to sing the football songs. He even invited the happy birthday to a follower who, poster in his hand, asked him to get a selfie As a gift from his … they guessed: 40th anniversary. More or less, the average age of most of those present. “We will sing, dance, to fall in love, dance and sing more,” he encouraged them, abusing his spicy smile.
The moment of the greatest communion came when the first agreements of Cannot stop the feeling, of the soundtrack of Troll And his last great success, one of the few songs that were sung almost from start to finish. The microsion that punished DJ Andrew Hypes was also interesting, who usually accompanies Timberlake on his tours, and that mixed some of the most well -known collaborations of the singer, with 50 cents, Nelly thefto or Madonna -of the Tennet of the Tennet of the Tennet’s Tennet. and a surprisingly fixed dimension.
But Timberlake not only sang and danced, but he also took the guitar My love y Selfish And put the keyboards with the keyboards Be missing. A problem in which the virtuosity of the metals and the percussion of the band, which stole the prominence from the interpreter. The musicians and the four singers who accompanied him were also, to a certain extent, accomplices that Timberlake could cover his voice with them and take breath in the middle of many steps and choreography. But every time the microphone was put in front of the mouth, he showed that his falsette and his vocal power are still intact.
The climax came with an apotheas Sexy beatWhere Timberlake had no other choice than to remove the hunter. The singer put an end to a dynamic, fun and very evocative performance.
