Forty degrees past 22.30. The embarrassment squeezed in the Plaza de España in Seville and although Justin Timberlake invited to sweat at 16,000 people who crowded the enclosure designed by Anibal González for the 1929 universal exhibition, he only took off the jacket on the last theme. If he was hot, he only noticed in the sweat that began to appear on his face in the Ecuador of the show. In the hour and a half that lasted his 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 to the rhythm of R&B and Funk with which he got into the public 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 and The 20/20 Experience – that have become hymns of the pop of the first decade of the 21st century and that were the ones who knew how to tantage most of the majority of the majority of Assistants He started with Mirrors, who linked without continuity solution with Cry Me a River. And he did not need anymore: Seville surrendered and not only because the public felt recognized in that millennial nostalgia that invaded Maria Luisa’s park, but because Timberlake gave them from the first moment their repertoire of unattainable movements and acute In the iconic Santalucía Sevilla Fest.Mauri Bichigascon this concert, Timberlake not only returned to Spain, but opened the fifth edition of the iconica Santalucía Sevilla Fest, a contest that, as its director, Javier Esteban, has established itself as a cultural reference of the Andalusian capital, to the point of being the third event in economic impact, after the Holy Week and Fair. The objective of this tour, The Forget Tomorrow Tour, was to promote his latest album, Everything I Thought It was, premiered in March last year, and with which Timberlake intended to return to the top of some escape success lists for almost a decade. The plan has not come out exactly as planned, perhaps also because of the adversities that have been accumulated throughout 2024: first, the memories of his former Britney Spears, who revealed that he urged her to abort, thus demystifying the version he gave in Cry Me to River, where she presented her as unfaithful; And then, and above all, for his arrest while driving drunk. In fact, many of the concert attendees this Friday in Seville did not know that the singer had taken new album. And he probably either knew it and that is why he focused most of his repertoire in his great successes. And he was not wrong, because the new songs – not Angels, Play and a beautiful acoustic of Selfish, three out of twenty – were barely followed by the public, which seemed even a bit absent at that time, but which, however, fell with My Love, Summer Love or Suit & Tie. “How many have accompanied me these last 25 or 30 years? I want to show you my gratitude and how much I loved you with this when I was little. Thank you for making the dreams of a Tennessee boy come true,” Timberlake was honest. Secuchating the songs that ratified him as a star, after passing through the boyber nsync, in some way, the Sevillian audience took back two decades. A time of hope where in the future the great recession was not glimpsed or an almost perpetual precariousness that has made that millennial generation of Bruces with a very different reality that they dreamed when they listened to Timberlake, then turned into the golden boy of the world pop. But that melancholy did not move to the stage. From his performance he did not detach at all that Timberlake is an artist in decline. On the contrary, it was a perfect showman. Incombustible and impeccable in each of his interpretations, he infected his enthusiasm to the entire Plaza de España. Moreover, the singer, who sometimes reproaches his lack of interconnection with the public, did not stop talking with him, encouraging him to chant football chants. He even invited a follower to sing the happy birthday who, a poster in hand, asked him to make a selfie as a gift from his…. They have guessed: 40th anniversary. More or less, the average age of most of those present. “We are going to sing, to dance, to fall in love, to dance and to sing more,” he encouraged them, abusing his picara smile. Justin Timberlake, during his concert in the iconic Santalucía Sevilla Fest.Mauri buhigasel moment of greater communion came when the first chords of the can the feeling, of the soundtrack of trolls and his last great success, one of the few They chanted almost from beginning to end. It was also interesting the microsion that pricked the DJ Andrew Hypes, which usually accompanies Timberlake on his tours, and that mixed some of the best known collaborations of the singer, with 50 cent, Nelly Furtado or Madonna -of when there was no producer or interpreter who did not want to have a theme with him, again the nostalgia- and those that the trumpet and the trombone of The Tennessee Kid They gave a different and surprisingly fastened dimension. But Timberlake not only sang and danced, he also took the guitar in My Love and Selfish and stood behind the keyboards with Miss. An issue in which the virtuosity of the metals and the percussion of the band, which stole the prominence to the interpreter. The musicians and the four singers who accompanied him were also, to some extent, accomplices that Timberlake could cover up his voice with them and take breath in the midst of so many steps and choreography. But every time the microphone was put in front of the mouth, he showed that his falses and his vocal power are still untouched. The climax arrived with a sexy apotheosis Beat, where Timberlake had no choice but to take off the jacket. The singer ended a dynamic, entertaining and very evocative performance. (Tagstotranslate) iconic culture
