MADRID, 19 Jul. (Michelle Ortega – EUROPA PRESS) –
On the night of this Tuesday, July 18, The Weeknd illuminated a full Cívitas Metropolitano stadium in Madrid thanks to a spectacular visual spectacle that evokes a post-apocalyptic world. Combining this extravagant gamble with his powerful hits and his onstage cockiness, he has dominated his first Spanish stage.
A stage in three parts, a first with a city with large buildings such as the CN Tower in Toronto and the Empire State Building, a giant figure of the female robot designed from the 2011 ‘Echoes of Silence’ video clip and a stage with a floating moon on top. have moved into the stadium to host the ‘After Hours Til Dawn’ stadium tour.
Introduced by an entourage of dancers covered entirely in white, Abel Tesfaye, the real name behind The Weeknd, stormed his spectacular stage at around 9:30 p.m. to the deafening shouts of his followers to the rhythm of ‘Take my breath’.
He has done it with a white outfit and a silver mask, already revealing the movements and ease of a world star that he has exhibited throughout the live performance, in which he has presented, among songs from other works, danceable pieces with rhythms from the eighties. her album ‘Dawn FM’ (2022) and songs from her smash hit ‘After Hours’ (2020). The tour was initially planned to present this latest album but after suffering three postponements it is carried out together with the presentation of the most recent one.
“It’s my first night in Madrid,” recalled Tesfaye, who has also complained about the “‘fucking’ heat” of the place, which has heated up even more with the fire that has set his city on fire or that has been thrown from its catwalk, in which the giant statue has become a revolving attraction of lights.
In several songs accompanied by his group of dancers, who seemed servants of the new power, and in others only about his enormous infrastructure, The Weeknd has sung hits like ‘Lost in the fire’, ‘The hills’ or ‘Starboy’, all of them chanted by an audience devoted to the spectacularity of the Canadian’s proposal.
In a first half marked by the artist covered by his mask. -it could be The Weeknd or any other-, they have also made the Metropolitan tremble like ‘Can’t feel my face’, anthem of ‘Beauty behind the madness’ from 2015.
Tesfaye has pulled even more epic after ‘Party monster’ by finally taking off his mask. Slowly, among the ovation of the public, it has been possible to see the artist in full, thus adding more closeness to a tremendous show in every way.
Grateful for his incredible reception at its premiere in the Spanish capital, he has assured that this would not be his last performance in the city. A statement with a flavor of promise that the future will decide, since there are not a few times that Tesfaye has stated that he is getting tired of The Weeknd’s project, although that does not mean abandoning music.
Assumptions aside, the public has continued to enjoy a live show in which the protagonist’s characteristic voice has gained relevance in a second part with songs like ‘After hours’, ‘Die for you’, ‘Wicked games’, ‘It feel it coming’, ‘Less than zero’ or ‘Save your tears’.
Linked together, one after the other, almost without rest, they have raised the party giving way to the most tremendous moment of the night, the turn of ‘Blinding lights’. Tesfaye has performed his biggest hit – it was the most radioed song in Spain in 2020 and spent 47 weeks in the ‘top 10′ of songs in the United States’– under his large hanging moon, in a stadium illuminated by stage spotlights and the bracelets distributed to the public. The Weeknd has shown why he is a record-breaking artist and one of the biggest stars in music today, as the numbers show.
Already at the end of his appointment with the Madrid public, the winner of three Grammy awards has taken one of the buildings in his city to say goodbye with a tremendous party in which ‘In your eyes’ and ‘Moth to a flame’ have shone especially ‘.
In two hours of concert, the Canadian has included thirty songs that mix pop, dance, electronic and R
