Pitty plunges The Town into nostalgia with a show of hits and even a marriage proposal

If the first day of The Town , which began last Saturday in São Paulo , was governed by the contemporaneity of trap , this Sunday became a day to look back fondly — and singer Pitty was one of the Brazilian protagonists of this movement that also included Capital Inicial and CPM 22.

She played a show in the early evening of what is known as the festival's rock day, dominated by a crowd visibly older than the youngsters who had been around the day before, but dressed in black just as much.

The last time she performed at the Interlagos Racetrack , at the first edition of The Town, in 2023, the singer was about to embark on the "ACNXX" tour, which celebrated two decades since the release of "Admirável Chip Novo".

The album, the debut album by the Bahian singer who emerged from the Salvador punk scene, put Pitty firmly on the Brazilian rock map and became the masterpiece of her career. It's no surprise that she spent an entire year touring Brazil in shows dedicated to those songs.

Ironically, the visit to the past seems to have reinvigorated her career. Her vigor on stage never waned, but her appearances at music festivals across Brazil seem to have reconnected the artist with an audience that grew up with those songs playing on the radio and on MTV .

Pitty's image and voice reappeared in many places and her songs gained new versions in the voices of people like Pabllo Vittar , Ney Matogrosso and Sandy on the special album "Admirável Chip Novo (Re)Ativado" .

At The Town, the artist's strength translated into a packed The One stage, with choirs in every song, a child singing "Admirável Chip Novo", hair-beating circles in "Memórias" and a marriage proposal in "Equalize" that was greatly celebrated by the audience around the couple.

Pitty said in an interview that this, her most romantic song, was the release that left her most hesitant. This was because, at the time, the record company insisted it be the first single from the 2004 album, but Pitty felt that, as a woman in rock, she needed to prove herself by debuting with a heavier sound.

She says, however, that she has long since made peace with love and with "Equalize," which became one of her biggest hits — and which is now the subject of moments like that of Mayara Rosa and Thiago Diniz, who had their first kiss to this same song at the artist's show at The Town in 2023.

Despite having already finished the tour of her most famous work, Pitty dedicated most of her repertoire to it, with tracks such as "Máscara", "Teto de Vidro" and "Semana que Vem".

She also played some of "Anacrônico", which turns 20 in 2025. "Na Sua Estante", for example, was given a version only on guitar sung in chorus by the Autódromo de Interlagos.

Of those released outside of her most celebrated albums, only "Sete Vidas", from 2014, and "Me Adora", from 2009, appeared, which closed the show with her singing the chorus closer to the audience and getting lost to return to the stage.

"It's crazy, this whole time thing, blink and here we are," Pitty said, about what seems to be her career's greatest ally. "And it's crazy how music has the ability to bridge that gap." Maybe not all of her songs will survive, but Pitty's will certainly live on.