Concerts in Chile with its chicos and chicas...

Last night, I surprised myself by winding up at the Robbie Williams concert here in Santiago. Two of my roommates really like him (Paula, from Columbia and Sarah from England), and both of them actually know a good majority of his songs --I was actually only surprised by Paula knowing his songs, but the amount of shock I had made up for the lack there of in relation to Sarah's knowledge. So they both wanted to go to the concert, and I figured I might as well join them. I don't know more than one or two of songs, but the concert was still rather entertaining. The best part was, however, watchign him speak english to a spanish speaking crowd. I've always wondered how people who don't speak english can really go to a concert of an english speaking artist. I know that music transcends languages and all that, but there's still the time between songs when the artist is on stage speaking...what actually happens when the artist and the crowd don't speak the same language??? Well I found out. The artist tries his best to speak what little he knows while the audience just stares. You could tell that the crowd didn't understand all that he said because he would tell a joke, and only a small portion of the crowd would actually laugh. The only times the crowd went crazy were when he said either "Chile", "chicos" or "chicas." It was rather interesting to watch the faces of the people around me as they tried to figure out what else he was saying. Now I'm left to wonder how he actually felt standing in front of a crowd, not knowing for sure how much of his speaking the crowd actually understood...does it make this worse because the crowd isn't getting the "full effect", or is it still ok for him because he knows that these people still really love his music even though its not in their language either...