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Bruce Springsteen once again certified his colossal dimension in Barcelona

2023-05-01T10:40:09.639Z


With a repertoire almost identical to that of Friday, the rocker once again inflamed the Olympic Stadium


There are things that hardly become routine, one of them the emotion that electrifies a stadium when Bruce Sprigsteen starts a concert.

On Sunday he did not do it like on Friday, he used

My Love Will Let You Down

instead of

No Surrender

, this time the second piece in the repertoire, but the response from the public was identical and the chills down the spine as well.

In addition, it had rained, the track had been a land of umbrellas, the clothes swamps of water and the shoes a drowned boat, and although the rainbow came out later, the hardships to reach paradise seemed to instill encouragement in an audience wanting to experience a concert. To remember.

Springsteen came out onto the stage topped by the flags of the United States and Catalonia and greeted, in Catalan, “hello Barcelona, ​​us esteem Catalunya”.

From here everything was a party whose first zenith was reached with

The Promise Land,

one of the many pieces from Springsteen's early days that made up the repertoire with which the American rocker once again literally put himself in the pocket of a crowd that clearly reads the transparent figure of a musician who in a way subjected it to a facelift emotional.

It was a reunion session for more than 55,000 souls who once again filled the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona for the second concert of Boss's European tour.

For many, Barcelona will be a slightly emptier city tomorrow, and there will be no shortage of those who will thank Saint Springsteen for the rain that can do anything.

Few jobs are more phenomenal than music when it comes to noticing its effect on others.

When, after the mandatory “

one, two, three

”, Springsteen began

Out In The Street

, a murmur of happiness reached the stage from the dance floor, and the rocker, guitar in hand, approached the audience in the front rows and felt the thrust of the crowd behind them: she must have felt like a full, happy person, with an astonishment that never fades.

It is unknown if this can become routine, but it seems not.

That is the poison of stadiums, of music for the crowds, a music that Springsteen dominates with that epic dimension that if it does not lead to invading Poland, perhaps it will lead to breaking into Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) and putting all the Amish to manufacture Fender guitars.

That should keep Springsteen on this tour, the mythical crowd that shares something that was born from your intimacy.

The price he has to pay is that what used to come naturally to him now he has to search for it in a body already quite lived.

It's not a disgrace, but Bruce's voice is increasingly gritty, he gesticulates with less emphasis and on top of that he's one of those who spare no effort.

He could sing less vigorously, sing more cautiously, but he must believe that he would no longer be him.

The public would forgive him, he probably wouldn't.

That is why Springsteen's second concert had an underground emotion with a basic argument that nobody wanted to verbalize: how many stadium tours are there left to see him? When will he decide that it is no longer necessary to squeeze more if he can continue making music with more consistent efforts? At your age? When will that narrative line of your latest works about the passing of time and death adjust the balance between crowds and the natural weakening that even those who seem supernatural take a toll on?

Watching him sing the explosive

Kitty's Back,

it would seem like never before, happy amid the roar of the winds, safe with a superlative band behind him, as always in black and jeans, building the paradigm for the white audience of the rocker par excellence, that rocker who loves black music and that chained

Nightshift

, a song about those who are gone and added Jimmy Cliff's

Trapped

to the repertoire , another novelty from Friday.

He also adapted for crowds, in the New Orleans “marching band” plan, a plethoric

Johnny 99

away from the introspective austerity of

Nebraska,

turned into a shared party.

A stadium is something incomparable, but time passes and of course what we won't see is Springsteen begging the crowds for applause for life, he respects them too much and he also respects himself.

With him will go the last of the Mohicans.

But while he reigns in the stadiums as he has done in Barcelona, ​​it is only a matter of letting himself be run over.

The energy that, despite everything, the E Street Band continues to give off after its leader, the personal experiences that it evokes in generations that hang around the mouth of life, the model of a canonical artist of the 20th century that Springsteen embodies and the inertia of a music that now she feels cornered by the digital give even more strength to the celebration of her performances.

That is why the endings are indescribable, lights on, songs, smiles, hugs, jumps, spilled beers, kissing couples, upraised arms, a sea of ​​shaking heads, happiness as something physical and tangible: that is an ending. concert of the Boss.

It was like Friday, in fact, there were hardly any changes in the concert repertoire,

The Rising,

Badlands

,

Thunder Roads

,

Born In The USA,

Born To Run

,

Ramrod

,

Glory Days (

with Michelle Obama, former First Lady of the United States, tambourine in hand, doing backing vocals again),

Dancing In The Streets

and the final

I'll See You In My Dreams

with Sprigsteen alone on stage closing the apotheosis calmly.

He alone on stage, he alone to decide until when in front of the crowds.

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