We must recognize that Ed Sheeran does magic. Look at this image last night: he with an acoustic guitar on stage singing a story about a teenage love. Only he, his melossa voice and some strings to produce a premeditatedly meliflua song. Perhaps the interpretation barely served to entertain a sitting in a park in the cool, if that temperature could be found last night in the suffocating Madrid. But the response to this creative resources economy was immense: 70,000 people surrendered to the velvet that came out through the speakers. Do you see it? This man is a magician.
Ed Sheeran fulfilled his first night in the Metropolitan of Madrid and today repeats. 140,000 people in both appointments, according to the organization, at an average of 100 euros the entrance. The data, which obsesses the 34 -year -old English musician, say that what happened yesterday at the Atlético de Madrid stadium was a resounding success. It happened before an audience that did not give aesthetic clues about its musical inclinations, beyond the British singer. The usual band t -shirt parade that can be seen in these mass concerts was limited to some of the Eras Taylor Swift Tour. Young people, also mature, parents with children … good vibes and a lot of selfie to climb to social networks.
Sheeran took the stage with black pants and a shirt of the same color with the letters printed in colors with the word Madrid. A shirt of those that sell in the stores of the capital. A detail to tighten the honest and close image that he loves to give. And then he ran a few meters, he tripped and fell to the ground. We already say that he likes to be one more.
It started with Castle on The Hill, Or we intuit, because the sound was horrendous. Then it improved, but, at least in the high stands, there was no way to get rid of an echo that would be a real challenge for acoustics experts to be able to eliminate it. The Metropolitan will be the new live music center in Madrid. It is painful that we have to get used to this criminal sound with the money that must be loosen to buy tickets.
The scenic configuration consisted of a not very large circular platform in the center of the grass, what they call in the 360 vision of 360. Five towers that rose to the roof of the stadium projected squeezing lights. In addition, another mobile platform was displayed on stage that also spit color and images. Seen from the stands, that shone so much that perhaps the mayor of Vigo, Abel Caballero, should take note, in order to catch ideas for his feast of Christmas lights.
Another of the surprises was that Sheeran did not accompany musicians on stage. They appeared from time to time in tents 200 meters from the main platform. In one the battery, in another the keyboardist, in the beyond the bassist … surely many people went home with the feeling that instrumentalists did not appear. The good one had to think of Sheeran: why have human beings for too long sweating his instrument with how bad the stadium sounds. They saturated us, yes, with flares and explosions, many, and very unnecessary. Caray, with the heat that we did what we wanted was fresh water, not fire.
Sheeran had as best partner a apparatus at his feet who pressed with the shoe to create sounds. Once this generated, I could even leave the guitar on the floor and sing on the base already recorded. The spirit of Eurovision in the Metropolitan. There was another effect that can only be described as a ridiculous tad. It turns out that the outer part of the Circle-Scenary was a tape (like those of the gyms) that gave spins, like a carousel. In that situation he sang many of his songs Sheeran, turns that turns you. We do not understand how it did not collapse dizzy with so much rondita.
It was an unctuous, friendly spectacle, in some cloying phases with a tendency to the pringoso if we add the suffocating room temperature in the capital, bold by thousands of bodies quite close to each other. Sheeran is a project manufactured for what happened last night: gather thousands of people with the mission of chanting their simple tune. To him who do not come the complaints that cry because two cents of Spotify arrive. Because Ed Sheeran is Spotify: adds 90 million followers in the application of streaming Swedish, six million more than Bad Bunny and eight above Taylor Swift. And with that pint of clueless boy.
The concert supplied a ristra of great successes of its seven albums: Blow, The A Team, Eyes Closed, Give Me Love, Thinking Out Loud… songs that add millions of listening on platforms and that were chanted to crunch throat. With that instrumental nakedness on many of the issues, Sheeran fied everything to the state of his voice. And he endured without mishaps. He maintained with a serious vibrant tone in the most danceable pieces and displayed his dim bell and his acute false in the ballads.
The British musician does not deceive anyone: composes songs that appeal to the most epidermal side of feelings. Practice all kinds of styles whenever they are highly commercial: soft hip hop, some Latin radiophormula soul … demonstrated in its capital’s recital that the algorithm is he and is human and redhead. He made the public sing the effective “Oooooooo”, premiered a song that will edit shortly, took the stage to Tori Kelly for the two to interpret I Was Made for Loving You And he walked to the speeches. Facing the final stretch, the Madrid shirt was removed and put on (yes, they have guessed) the Spanish team is football.
The people went happy to their homes: they sang, they hugged each other, they probably cried, danced, they uploaded a hundred thousand videos to Instagram and, in some phase, they still recognize that they got bored.
The concert ended up being a summary of how much it would be necessary to improve to safeguard this immense art that is music: enclosures with better sound, less standardized songs and blood on stage instead of fire.