We live in a time when, after certain periods of stagnation (examples: from Billie Eilish to Olivia Rodrigo passing through our Aitana), the age of access to the ‘star system’ has been lowered, while veterans are also stretched. pop or rock, their careers spanning ages that seem impractical when we talk about so-called youth music. At the top, stars who have just emerged from their adolescence and stars in their octogenarians coexist. And these days, While the word ‘boomer’ is thrown around as an insult, the spotlight is on a few proven institutions; rolling stones and Madonna, alive and well beyond the retirement threshold.
Mick Jagger and company are doing just that, launching (this Friday). album consisting of new songs,hackney diamonds‘ (first in 17 years), that they look fresh and full of ideas. And he, ‘lady We’re going on a greatest hits world tour in London last weekend, ‘Celebration tour’ that will bring him to Palau Sant Jordi on November 1 and 2 (dates in Spain only). There is something miraculous in both cases.
The band is playing again
Related stones, We are talking about three gentlemen, Jagger (80 years old), Keith Richards (due in December) and Ron Wood (76), who have spent much of their lives hearing gossip (which has turned into ‘jokes’) since the 1970s. ) volatile teasers about their imminent disbandment and their supposed “last tour”). Now, His return to the stage is on the horizon in 2024, As Wood noted in an interview with ‘New Musical Express’ this week. They will kick off in North America and are expected to expand the radius of the “tour” once the “group returns to filming.”
They know they don’t need a new album to get crowds flocking to the stadium, but ‘Hackney diamonds’ is a good hanger on which to hang an updated photo of the band, away from a ‘revival’ exercise (and their continuity after the departure of Charlie Watts two years ago and their fight with the scythe lady formalize). It’s an album where they make an effort to sound contemporary. “It should sound like an album recorded this year. “We don’t want it to look like it did 40 years ago, and of course that’s not the case.” underlines Jagger in his conversation with Tom Power on YouTube.
Its sonic kick was made by young producer Andrew Watt (who turns 33 this Friday), whose work with Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus led him to Morrissey and Iggy Pop. The Stones’ inexhaustible validity as a ‘sexy’ brand, the deal with Barça to display their old logo, The language John Pasche designed for the jerseys of the next game against Real Madrid in 1970.
conqueror catalog
Madonna, Having turned 65 this August, he is the youngest, but an ordinary mortal, at this point in his life, is usually counting the days and hours to get rid of the work caravan, so he probably went on such a tour that; having a long road. Operating in a region, Commercial pop, where changes are drastic and age adds extra strain to female singers. But still It took Lady Gaga 28 years, Taylor Swift 32 years and Olivia Rodrigo 45 years. In her new ‘show’, Ms. Ciccone showcases a magnificent catalog of hit songs that have kept generational time running out, including ‘Holiday’, ‘Into the Groove’, ‘Like a Prayer’, ‘Vogue’, ‘La isla’ and more. Bonita’ and a long tail. In a way, it was a first.
But the Stones and Madonna are not alone, as there is every pop gerontocracy interested in ‘show business’, especially its on-air arm, because, as the Gay Mercader says, everyone wants to see the Mona Lisa at least once in their life (or more). . There ACDC, A few days ago at the Desert Trip festival (California) Brian Johnson fronts (76 years old) for his first tour since 2016, inviting us to sigh. Paul McCartney (81), who passed right under our noses in 2020 due to the pandemic and is expected to reschedule that lost European ‘tour’.
That medical report
Others are still vacant, but medical reports are awaited. Bruce Springsteen (peptic ulcer forced script changes in the United States this fall, but Dates in Spain almost closed, Barcelona reincluded for 2024), together aerosmith (their ‘farewell tour’ was interrupted due to injuries to their singer Steven Tyler’s larynx) or Eric Clapton (Despite the peripheral neuropathy for which he was diagnosed in 2013, he is trying to recover live activity in limited concert sessions). They are all bastions of the founding villas of the pop imagination, giants we imagine laughing out loud when they read the headline of the roving pop idol announcing his plan to destroy everything that came before.