By Cata Greloni Pierri
Rosalía and Twenty One Pilots closed the first day of the sixth edition of the most important music festival of the year which included a powerful and eclectic line up right from the very beginning.
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“We are giving it all guys!”, shouted Dak1llah after singing Qu3 la chp3n from the Alternative Stage. It was not clear whether she was talking about her show or about Lollapalooza Argentina Sixth Edition, which had just started at San Isidro Racecourse.
Dressed as a sporty warrior in a green and black suit, the rapper who started to be famous thanks to The Fifth Step sang many of her hits as Number One in front of festival goers who arrived early, right after midday.
“What’s up girls and guys? Mi name is Kamasi Washington and I am really happy to be here today”. The saxophonist who is changing today’s music spectrum together with The Next Step introduced himself using gender-inclusive languange and he started playing jazz straight away, rhythm and substance the afternoon of the first day. Going right to the roots, the producer and composer who collaborated with Thundercat and Kendrick Lamar and with Ibeyi sisters played the songs of his album The Epic. At the sale time but from the other side of the Racecourse, dressed in typical seventies clothes, Chilean Alex Anwandter played songs from all his albums but mainly from Latin America, the album he edited at the end of last year.
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Rosalía broke all the audience records at six PM, with almost 100.000 festival goers. Chanelized, with a golden tweed short jacket, corseted skirt, and eighties like jewels, with a Royalty-Sporty kind of look she opened her show with her success “Pienso en tu Mirá”, from the album El Mal Querer.
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On a light platform and with a group of dancers that were like sporty angels, the latest flamenco surprise star singer who is only 25 years old took over the Alternative stage when the sun started to set.
“Argentina, this song is for those who have listened to the angels”, she said before singing “Catalina” a cappella. In the middle of the show she showed her flamenco dancer skills: heel taps, clapping, and castanets together with Pablo Díaz Reixa, the producer better known as El Guincho.
By the end of the show and in the middle of great choreographies, Rosalía performed for the first time her new single, “Con altura”, which she sang together with J Balvin, one of the most successful songs of the day.
Dressed in a sporty customized Argentine tracksuit with number 13 on the back, Post Malone broke into Main Stage 2 full of energy and rhythm to the sound of his emo (t)rap, ready to wear out his vocal chords. Austin Richard Post does not need a band and beats are directly sent from tracks and just with that he spreads his power and good vibes all around. “This song is about arriving to the party and knowing that you are really cool”, he said before “G Wagon” and after his great repetitive “Better Now”.
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Post filled Festival goers with positive energy but the most expected show of the night was the one of Twenty One Pilots. After the show of Newyorker banda Interpol at Main Stage 1 and with a change of audience from +30 to almost the half, screens were suddenly full of black, white and red visuals and everything was burnt out. Ohio duet burnt a car on stage, Tyler Joseph sang from a platform and he did all the most he could, while Josh Dun played the drums from another platform above the public.
To close the night up, Steve Aoki appeared triunphant on stage with great visuals on the back. Wearing a Boca T-shirt, with Pavón 7 on its back, and jeans painted with graffiti, the DJ that is considered one of the best in his type by DJ Magazine, played songs from his second album, Neon Future, and presented a remix by Paulo Londra, who he considers a great talent and the best artist from the new generation. He lado honored his friend and colleague Avicii and closed the night with an EDM version of Bella Ciao.
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Enjoy.