By Cata Greloni Pierri
With LGBQTI shows, and trap and rock for crowds, the 100.000 people who visited San Isidro Racecourse on Lolla’s second day were partying all day long.
“Let’s sing somth!”, says Ca7riel from Main Stage 2, with his upper body naked, right after midday on Lollapalooza Argentina day 2. Catriel Guerriero is the new local trap idol and Paco Amoroso plays along him – he is wearing a green striped T shirt, and leggings and he has, as always, his typical blonde hair-, “a punk of the future” as he defines himself, who got on stage to play his mega hits “Jala Jala” and “Ouke”. Each beat was accompanied by streams of water dumped by security guards on the passionate audience.
Following the style of local indie, the band native of Mendoza Province, Perras on the beach played next from Alternative Stage; they started with their ballad “Puchos” and then they went on with more powerful songs. Simón Poxyran sang his love song “a la Cami” dedicated to his girlfriend; and when they played Turco X, Ca7riel got on the stage to rap as a guest artist and they closed the show singing “Sangucci”, with Bruno Beguerie as frontman, rapping and criticizing “those cheap copies that know a lot about Internet but nothing about ghettos”.
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Dressed in black, with lots of dancers on stage and guests rappers such as Pol-y and Femigangsta, Lelé made her debut at Lollapalooza’s main stage that will then host The 1975 and Arctic Monkeys. The band’s sound board did not work properly and the songs of her last album such as “No me sueltes” and “Haters” sounded intermittent; she closed with “La Benjamín”, and she saved the show thanks to her trap, sensuality and resilience.
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On the other side of the Racecourse, on Alternative Stage, and with an electric energy, French singer JAIN did not stay quiet for a single second. Best known as Jeanne Galice, she started her solo set dressed in the same blue astronaut like overall she worn for the video of “Oh man”, her pop song with western influences. In front of an audience full of fans with colorful hairs and rare haircuts, JAIN rapped, sampled danced “Star” and made everyone jump with her tiny psychedelic and disco beats box. She stirred the public up and paved the way for Troye Sivan.
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South African 23 year-old musician, began his show just as he started his sideshow at Niceto on Thursday. With the song “Seventeen”, Troye sings about sexual initiation, then he continued with “Bloom”, in which he speaks about teen love. “¡Wow! This seems the end of Bohemian Rapsody”, shouted the singer who was born ten years after Queen’s Live Aid ‘85, and who for sure must have thought more about Netflix biopic when he said that than about the original show.
When he sang “Heaven” he got emotional. The anthem about how it is coming out of the closet and about all the rejection he went through was the perfect moment for everyone to unfold their LGBQTI flags, both on stage and among the audience.
St. Vincent appeared on stage on a circular base as a rock dominatrix: super high vinyl boots that seemed to be made of pitch, a leather strapless body and fishnet stockings. As if were a seduction weapon, her fluor guitar, lightened up by ultraviolet flashes, the only element on stage. After singing “Sugar Boy”and “Los Ageless”, and before “Digital Witness”, Annie Clark changed her guitar (for another Ernie Ball Music Man always designed by her) and she seduced the crowd with an intimate show that also offered a little bit of bizarre humor from the screens which showed her as a ghoulish clown with a black bob and McQueen like mouth who answers and hangs up a phone.
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“Hello Argentina! Do want more music? She shouted in the middle of the show and the answer was “Yes! Masseduction”. This woman, that is as complex as all the guitars she has, not only seduced Argentine crowds from Alternative stage but also left everyone thinking and reflecting.
When the sun started to set, British from The 1975 appeared on Main Stage 1. With dancing pop rock and Romantic ballads, the band led by Matthew Healy, Adam Hann, Ross MacDonald and George Daniel presented its fourth album, Notes on a Conditional Form, which was more successful than their previous ones such aa “Love It If We Made It” and “Sex“.
After Troye Sivan afternoon show, it was Sam Smith time. The English singer made his debut in Argentina at Mail Stage 2, singing the repertoire that made him famous such as the collabs with Disclousure, “Latch“and “Omen” and his ballads “Stay With Me”and. “I´m Not The Only One”, and he showed a perfect register all the time.
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With English punctuality, as Sam Smith did at Main Stage 2, Arctic Monkeys appeared on the opposite stage to offer a mutant show that lasted one hour and a half. The band that has been led by Alex Turner for more than 15 years offered a perfect show which went from guitar rock in the beginning to their more famous songs such as “Do I Wanna Know”, “Brianstorm”and “I Bet You Look On The Dancefloor”, going through other singles from their latest album, more melodic and lounge, Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino.
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They played the songs “One Point Perspective”, and “Four Out Of Five” among many others and many encores, while Turner, dressed like James Dean and Elvis, took off his aviator sunglasses.
The band changes all the time and goes through different sounds as Turner goes around the fictional hotel he creates on stage and not only do the Arctic Monkeys get out of all that experimentation safe and sound but they also make a good impression on the audience thanks to the solid, sensual and precise basis that characterize them.