Rosalía's Lux Tour Wows at L.A.'s Kia Forum
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- Rosalía opened the first of her Kia Forum dates by being wheeled out inside a white crate marked "Fragile" in a tutu, with the box unfolding into the shape of a cross as a roughly 20-piece orchestra performed an overture from the arena floor.
- Karol G was the night's surprise guest in Rosalía's touring "confessional booth" segment, describing how an unnamed ex (widely taken to be Feid) avoided celebrating his birthday with her for four straight years before she walked out at the airport; Rosalía closed the bit by telling her, in Spanish, she had "got rid of that son-of-a-bitch gem."
- Rosalía thanked choreographer Charm La'Donna (eight years working together) and vocal coach Eric Vetro (10 years), and told the crowd she had only "one month and a half to learn how to dance in pointe shoes for the first time in my life," crediting that honesty with defusing any "pretentiousness" over the classical move.
- The first half's neo-classical arc pivoted into Rosalía's electronic-pop zone via "Berghain," which reproduces its Mike Tyson sample live and sees the seated orchestra turn into a rave by waving their bows in the air; the show also staged a cover of Frankie Valli's "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" as a rope-lined art-museum tableau with fans playing gallery-goers.
- "La Perla" features choreography credited to Greek master Dimitris Papaioannou, with Rosalía's dancers dressed all in black save for long white gloves that create the illusion of disembodied arms forming shapes around her — a bit already widely circulated on social video in the U.S.
- The review positions the show as a contender for Tour of the Year alongside recent L.A. stops by Raye and Lily Allen, noting Rosalía's "Lux" album landed on half the world's top-10 lists in December and that previous tour confessors have ranged from Marcello Hernandez to Maggie Rogers.
Why it matters: A Variety review framing the show as a Tour of the Year contender — and Karol G's guest slot doubling as a public, on-stage alignment with Rosalía after months of fan-fueled rivalry chatter — marks a rare mainstream U.S. music-press embrace of a Spanish-language stadium tour built around classical-ballets-and-opera staging, not the usual pop-party template.
