There were a lot of jokes the day Isabel Díaz Ayuso created the Spanish Office, but yesterday when Chenoa sang “chodo “everything will be fine” again and again, I felt that I would give those 75,000 euros per year that Toni Cantó was going to pocket as well invested if they were spent to protect the deaf dental occlusive identity of the letter t, of which many singers try to strip it; Marta Sánchez, I’m looking at you too chito transform it into ch, a voiceless postal-veolar affricate consonant. Greetings from here to my phonetics and phonology teacher at the faculty.
I know there are already too many just causes to abandon, but we cannot abandon the twenty-first letter of the Spanish alphabet to its fate. I was going to call on the letter T of the RAE to be his champion, but I just found out that it is Arturo Pérez-Reverte, so it is better that I keep quiet for a while.
The last gala before the final was a festival to the greater glory of the program itself, which happened too many times in this edition and began with a very elegant and very emotional Chenoa, the first is sometimes surprising, but the second almost never, and two hours in advance whose only intrigue was whether who would reach the final would be Tinho or Guillo Rist.
Rist done Say my name by David Guetta, Bebe Rexha and J Balvin dressed like someone who wants to be very lucky on New Year’s Eve and, as always, with energy and professionalism. He delivered exactly what was expected of him. Tinho, for his part, chose forbidden word of Samurai because it’s already clear that’s where he wants to make a career. The Galician showed signs of development and will be able to evolve for another week, since he placed in the final with a fairly comfortable margin, sixty percent of the votes. Guillo didn’t seem too disappointed; He knows that his place is in musicals and we are in a sweet moment for them. Indeed, since TVE is preparing a program on opera with Juanjo Bona, another on musical comedies with Guillo would not be a bad idea. I leave my idea for TVE here, altruistically.
Olivia and Claudia Arenas put themselves in the shoes of Baccara to sing Yes sir, I can dancehis greatest success with Sorry, I’m a lady and the Do you speak French? with whom Mayte Mateos and María Mendiola – that was their real name, but exoticism sold as much as it does today – represented Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest 1977.
I’m introducing this data somewhat randomly to tie in one of the rare moments when the organization let candidates know something about the outside world. And the person responsible for giving the scoop was Inés Hernand, who, as presenter of Benidorm Fest, informed the candidates that in 2026 Spain would not participate in Eurovision. This is not essential news, since now the competition is no longer linked to TVE and does not imply participation in the festival, but perhaps they were trying to look for reactions, controversies, headlines. There wasn’t much beyond “I think it’s beautiful. I guess it’s because of Israel’s decision,” from Tinho. “Israel’s gesture”, let’s see how it best sums up a conflict that has continued since the end of the Ottoman Empire. The Galician and Cristina were the ones who most applauded TVE’s decision, but if anyone expected great reflections, they will have been disappointed; This is not the edition of Alba Reche, Natalia Lacunza and María Escarmiento. And I take advantage of this window on the world to suggest to TVE that, since there is no Eurovision, it would do well to recover this OTI in which we had big hits and better songs like Well done Samurai either Latin.
In a renovated OTI, I see Guille Toledano triumph, who crooner Latino achieved one of his best performances thanks to I have everything except you by Luis Miguel. Toledano is reliability, but is it exciting? He’s a fair runner-up, I’m not disputing that, but does anyone consider him a winner? As an OTI winner; Yes of course. More dynamic was the interpretation of Mom knows what’s best by Jessie J de Cristina, the first and last favorite of the competition, who sang as if someone was touching the winner’s title with their little fingers. If no one doubted that Cristina was going to be in the final, it is surprising that Claudia, who played yesterday the sky by Tini. There are contestants kicked out weeks ago who are far superior vocally, but she has something that hooks a good portion of the audience and that’s what it’s all about.
They gave Olivia a winning song again, which in turn was a poisoned candy because I have a thoughtone of those songs they sing to you while looking into your eyes and you go get the birth certificate to get married at the nearest town hall, it’s like Excalibur or Thor’s Mjölnir, not just anyone can get their hands on it, it requires something more than a good voice, it requires something that only Amaia has at the moment.
The Navarrese and Aitana visited the Academy this week, they exuded charisma and reminded us that we cried for the 2017 edition for a reason. As they are incapable of not providing content, they talked about the mutual envy they felt because one was cool and the other a product, and since today I can’t stop creating, listening to them, I imagined a series for Prime Video, a kind of put yourself in my place in which they exchanged their lives. Ok, it’s not very original, but neither The summer I fell in love and there, this enriches the platform. The visit promised and delivered.
If I had to choose my 10 favorite moments from this edition, it would be Aitana singing Superstar with Amaia on piano. And since this week OT has been singing for OT, in addition to listening to the Butterfliesby Aitana and Sangiovanni, which Guille and Cristina performed, the guest star was another ex-OT, in this case Edurne, who sang Santa Claus came to town. A hit that has seduced both Bing Crosby and BTS since 1932. Very much in favor of Christmas festivities being launched during the December long weekend and not falling into the savagery of bringing them forward almost until October. There is a time for everything and this week it is time to choose the winner of this edition as irregular and decaffeinated as it is unpredictable. Who will win the final victory?
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