Rosalía triumphs at the MTV EMAs 2019 | brand.com
The MTV European Music Awards (EMAs) have left another night of triumph for Rosalía, not only for winning a new award from the network, but for burning another iconic performance at a gala that has been marked by talent female.
"This award is for my brothers El Guincho and J Balvin; I am very grateful and feel very lucky to be able to make music with the people I consider family", she said when collecting her trophy for best collaboration for 'With height' together with the Canarian producer and in the absence of his Colombian 'partenaire'.
It was a few months after making history at the MTV Video Music Award (VMA) on the other side of the Atlantic, when she got the best choreography and the best Latin video for this very song, only this Sunday the Catalan was playing on house in the Palace of Exhibitions and Congresses FIBES of Seville.
Here the 2019 EMAs have generally been an exaltation of female musical talent, not only for their pre-eminence in the performances, but also for the result of the votes of the followers of the chain, who have awarded them the prizes sweeter.
In addition to Rosalía, it has been a propitious evening for the chameleonic character of Halsey (best pop artist and best look), for Nicki Minaj (hip hop artist), FKA Twiggs (alternative style) and Ava Max (best 'push ' or bet on an emerging MTV artist).
Also for Lola Índigo (best Spanish artist), for the groundbreaking airs of Billie Eilish (best song for 'bad guy' and revelation artist) and, of course, for Taylor Swift.
His return to colorful pop has brought him the awards for best American artist and, above all, best video for 'Me!', together with Brendon Urie, a surprise, since he was fighting against strong productions such as those mentioned ' bad guy' and 'With height' or 'thank you, next', by Ariana Grande.
Faced with decisions conditioned by the ability to mobilize the 'fanbase' and not by the critical judgment of a professional jury, this r&b diva has been the big loser, failing to materialize any of her seven nominations.
The categories in which his colleagues have scratched awards have been best artist (Shawn Mendes), best rock artist (Green Day), best concert on the 'World stage' program (for Muse, for their last concert in Bilbao), best electronic artist (Martin Garrix) and for the best live show and the best fans (for the South Koreans BTS).
Likewise, the unprecedented 'Rock Icon' award has gone to the former voice and foul language of Oasis, Liam Gallagher. Another man, the soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo, has monopolized the flashes prior to the event with his unexpected appearance in a suit just as red as the carpet on which he has paraded arm in arm with his partner, the model Georgina Rodríguez, presenter of one of the awards .
In a setting articulated as an end-to-end fashion catwalk and with the chromatic intensity of Sevillian tiles, Dua Lipa has been in charge of opening fire with a spectacular staging, surrounded by thirty yellow dancers among which she, paradoxically in black, has shone with her contagious and brand new song, 'Don't start now'.
The gala, with a bilingual start for the first time thanks to the work of the American of Mexican origin Becky G as host, has had other curious moments, such as the giant telephone of Mabel, the daughter of Neneh Cherry born in Spain, which has left the speakerphone communicating with the r&b-infused pop of 'Don't Call Me Up'.
The Irishman Niall Horan has also dropped the hook, but in the style practiced in his time with One Direction, to get closer to the hesitant British rock of Miles Kane with 'Nice To Meet Ya', while with a solid voice Halsey has jumped with 'Graveyard' over a simulated burning meadow.
Prender, has turned on the applause meter every time Rosalía's name has been pronounced and she, far from wasting her visit to the Flamenco Biennial, has vindicated herself with the racial 'Say my name ' and a colossal tablao erected on top of a mountain of wicker chairs and the art of dozens of cantaoras and bailaoras.
Few more accents could have been placed on a ceremony that had the punk touch of Green Day in the performance recorded in the monumental Plaza de España in Seville, as well as the loud voice of Ava Max, the carnival of Akon and Becky G, the South Korean pop from NCT 127 and with the incorrigible Gallagher.
