American singer Katy Perry transformed the stage at the Son do Camiño festival in Santiago into a space-age, high-tech fantasy brimming with energy, with a concert lasting more than an hour and a half in which she performed her greatest hits and gave the premiere of her new single, “Watch It Burn.”
The “Queen of Camp” promised a revamped show with an all-new production. And she didn’t disappoint.
Surrounded by a spectacular visual display—a sea of pure white—in which stage design, technology, and a tireless troupe of dancers and musicians supported her throughout, the American performer shone with her own unique radiance and won over the audience from the very first minute.
Following the success of her world tour, “The Lifetimes Tour,” during which she visited Barcelona and Madrid last November; and having just returned from the United States after participating in the third and final opening ceremony of the 2026 World Cup, Katy Perry has arrived in Galicia, where she was welcomed by more than 42,000 people who attended the festival’s first day this Thursday at Monte do Gozo.
Always smiling, and at times captivating, Perry kicked off her show with “California Gurls,” accompanied by a parade of musclemen who turned up the heat on an already sweltering night. Pure Galifornia.
Dressed in a white shirt bearing the message “I am not a robot,” a tie featuring the American flag, and matching tights, she moved with ease on an interactive stage filled with screens that she never stopped playing with throughout the concert, with nods to calls from her current partner, former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Always entertaining, she tried her hand at Spanish and, after telling the audience that she had only performed in Madrid and Barcelona, she praised Galicia and its cathedral, which she had visited before the concert.
There were also plenty of references to her unique space journey aboard Jeff Bezos’s spacecraft. Astronauts appeared on stage, carrying the Spanish flag, reenacting the first trip to the moon. Although she, aware of the stage she was standing on, quickly brought out the Galician flag as well.
With the songs “Space Odyssey,” “Dark Horse,” and “ET,” she has defied gravity and even flirted with a Martian, who performed a twerk that was out of this world.
“Part of Me,” “I’m His, He’s Mine,” and “Bon Appétit” were the songs that closed out the first part of the concert, after which she addressed the audience again via a tablet and, using a QR code, raffled off her new outfit—this time a pin-up look.
In the second half of the show, Katy Perry treated her fans to songs from her upcoming album: first, “Bandaids”; and then, in an exclusive premiere, “Watch It Burn,” for which she had released a teaser just a few hours earlier.
With a rock vibe, the singer set the stage on fire and then performed the legendary “Heads Will Roll” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, to which the audience danced and jumped around.
“Legendary Lovers,” “The One That Got Away,” and “Thinking of You” were the next songs in a show during which the audience sang along to “their queen.”
Songs from her first album, such as “Hot n Cold” and “I Kissed a Girl,” have paved the way for even bolder moves. Perry climbed into a giant plastic bottle and literally took a dip in the crowd, throwing herself into the audience.
Endlessly entertaining, the artist danced to the beat of a giant sunflower during “Harleys in Hawaii,” and before launching into “Roar,” she also delighted the crowd with remixes of “Lifetimes” and “All the Love” from her latest album, “143.”
As was to be expected, the concert ended with “Fireworks,” a song during which he opened a tube of sunscreen and sprayed foam all over the audience.
Already ecstatic, she took her leave by diving onto a mat. And the audience, wide-eyed, once again chanted for their queen of the Camp, according to Agencia EFE.