Jason Derulo, the TikTok man at Rock in Rio Lisboa: a warm seducer for the Bela Vista sunset
Jason Derulo of songs in the ‘sympathetic’/R&B curriculum, contemporary with three sold (not counting songs from millions of streaming) and a handful of songs that have radio memory (only) is keen to revive.
He was, without a big story, at MEO Sudoeste 2018, he was now coming back with an extra capital: during the pandemic, he sampled ‘Laxed (Siren Beat)’ (former musical by the New Zealander Jawsh 685 that went viral on TikTok) and became if a star of the Chinese social network (since he joined the platform, he went from 6 to 33 million followers at a glance and it is said that he will receive more than 70 thousand euros for each video published).
‘Savage Love’, Derulo’s TikTok song, was perhaps the most well-received moment of a late afternoon in Bela Vista, where a huge sign awaits as the day’s biggest stars, Anitta and Post Malone. Its show is not impressive: the music mostly based on pre-recorded bases shot by DJ), in all the same as the already known originals, a drums and a ‘live’ bass are limited to underline the playback rhythm, which does not help in the It’s time to discern what Derulo is actually singing at the moment that it has previously been ‘dressed’. Dancers in white helps complete the scenario. It is, let’s say, a relatively portable show that, despite the high number of artists on stage, seems to take up little ‘space’ on the giant Palco Mundo.
After ‘Wiggle’ ‘Take You Dancing’, ‘Slidin up live’ debuted, but it was – further on – with ‘Trum Girl’ and ‘Trumpets’ that Deruloia got a little more plate, before a final shot in growing up, with a curious quote from ‘Time to Say Goodbye’, by Andrea Bocelli, predecessor of ‘Goodbye’ (theme with David Guetta, who was entitled to a collective chorus of ‘Seven Nation Army’, by the White Stripes) and the rap of ‘Speak Dirty’. It ends with the 80s seasoning of ‘Want to Want Me’, the first single from what is (still) Jason Derulo’s most recent album, “Everything4”, released in 2015, where again the playback (now ostensibly vocal) ended up removing the aspect ‘to a ‘living aspect’ that was not ‘shown’.