Yesterday was one of those nights where it is inevitable to quote the famous phrase of Annie Hall. You know: “Two elderly ladies are in a high mountain hotel and one of them says, ‘Wow, the food here is really terrible.’ And the other responds: “Yes, yes, plus the portions are so small.” Something like that could be said about this OT, which is so decaffeinated from a TV show perspective. Every week we have given a thousand buts to unattractive galas, at least in comparison with the previous exuberant OT, but now, almost three months later, we are faced with the reality: there is no more OT 2025 and it is now that we will coolly evaluate this very anticlimactic edition and celebrate the true dimension of the void it leaves in our diaries.
There were obvious gaps. The complaint may seem childish, but the most repeated complaint is the lack of saucewhat is an OT edition without files neither one nor the other ships? It’s the first without any trace of romance, at least before our eyes. Who knows if one day we will discover a love invisible to viewers, like one day we discovered the love story between Manu Tenorio and Nuria Fergó, but a priori this year almost everyone is involved. There will be those who say they are too young to think about serious relationships, but I always keep in mind the phrase When Harry meets Sally: “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” Today I couldn’t not mention Rob Reiner’s classic. It will be poison for the public, but I understand perfectly that no one would want to put their relationship in danger by watching the dramas that occurred in the previous editions; Besides, who could want to jeopardize Claudia’s relationship with that boyfriend who tells her, “It’s the end of OT, but the beginning of Claudia Arenas”? I at least want these two people to be happy forever. He was, along with Cristina’s pizpireto father, one of the great discoveries of the reunion with the members of the family. Although personally I remain with the attitude that Ainhoa, Tinho’s girlfriend, maintained, a monument of social malaise. The only person who behaved normally among a bunch of excited strangers, that is, who conveyed the feeling of wanting to be somewhere other than there.
This year, the competitors were less brash and more focused on what matters: the music. Very commendable for their career, but very little television. The program itself collaborated. If they made us understand one thing from the first news of the return of the competition, it was that they were going to take care of the mental health of the candidates and fiercely protected it; in fact, it was even the basis of the jury’s choice. No one was above the candidates, not even the teachers; If there was no star jury, a Risto, a Buika, a Mónica Naranjo, there was no Abril Zamora, Ángel Llácer or Javis, people with an innate gift for creating content. Perhaps the person we heard the most about was Mamen, the vocal technique teacher, a true statement of intent.
This group came to sing, not to participate in a realityeven if many would have preferred a Temptation Island with music, that between eighth notes and half notes someone would have split their shirt in the style of Montoya because of a heartbreak, but this year neither the producers nor the competitors were looking for that and without drama there is no television paradise. Sometimes they were so prudish that Noemí Galera invited them to stop thinking about what their partners would think outside and to show more complicity on stage. But it was also Galera, who sometimes appeared a little tired from pulling the car, who warned Tinho and Lucía that their games inside the house could lead to misunderstandings outside. Let’s see how this is compatible.
Maybe they should compensate us with an OT where everyone is already going through their second divorce and they don’t care about a so or an arre. Or that they put ancient glories there, a kind of Operation ReTriumph. Did you know that there is a cruise across the Mediterranean during which big stars of the 80s and 90s perform? People like Bernárdez, Captain Canalla’s Band, Tennessee, Social Security, Pablo Carbonell or La Orquesta Mondragón. How much bitterness and resentment can exist in the hearts of those people stuck on a ship on the high seas. How many quarrels and successfully pending accounts. Ever since I found out about it, I can’t help but think what a waste it is that no one is doing anything with it and how much a cabin will cost. There is a realitya series, a musical. Tell me you’d like to see it as much as I do. What happened this year was hate on social networks this does not change and will not change as long as they remain anonymous, learning to deal with it should be another subject and not only at the Academy.
The final result of OT 2025 was already announced last night by Héctor Llanos Martínez and it was not a surprise, just as Naiara’s victory was not last year, who appeared on the board to remind us how much it doesn’t matter to win this program. The Zaragoza native aimed to break the charts with her style in the Mónica Naranjo version chonipija with traces of Rosalía and toppings Bad Gyal and we are still waiting for these expectations to materialize. Cristina has already stood out during Victory Zero, not only with her voice, but also with her naturalness and self-confidence. Eurofan admitted, during the last gala, he benefited extraordinarily from The bride by the combative Angelina Mango.
Olivia, the second ranked, opted for the classic and pulled the unbeatable Céline Dion and she It’s all coming back to me now. Even if I listen to the chorus and, before the Canadian one, I think of the hilarious magicians Siegfried & Joy. Tinho, for his part, took full advantage of the Lose control by Teddy Swims, a song that fits his style perfectly. He was the big surprise of the edition, someone who, without attracting too much attention during the first galas, gradually became loved. He will be in a few groups during the first gala, but for a few weeks he will be the fairest winner for many for whom his third place will feel like disappointment; it’s not.
Guille Toledano did not make the podium. The singer interpreted Do what you want with me by Walls and he did what he wanted with the subject and, like every week, he didn’t miss a single note. He is “the one who has grown the most”, in the words of a devoted Leire Martínez, and “the perfect student”, for a jury that has always been in tune with him, perhaps because he knows what the market demands and that there is never too much singer to express. And this market will receive with the open lists Claudia Arenas, who could have gone to the first gala and sees how at the moment her version of Latin girl by Emilia has over 3.3 million views. Let’s see how many are your To live like this is to die of love in Nathy Peluso version. And the best part is that he doesn’t seem to care too much about his place in the final ranking; She left to train and, in addition to leaving the academy in star mode, she gave us the best/worst moment of the edition, her anxiety attack while being favorite forced her to appoint a partner.
Then came the moment when the three finalists performed the same song they had sung at the zero gala and we rarely saw less development, perhaps because the most prepared candidates rarely entered the Academy. The last group was Marta, Sebas, Guille and the others by Amaral, and there were almost more names in the title than there were contestants on set. Gone is the hustle and bustle with which the program began and I want to dance of Sonia and Selena. So far away that they no longer exist. Sonia and Selena, yes as people, do not cross themselves, but not as a concept. A tragedy. A few days ago I found out that Selena Leo was psychic, so she probably already knew there was going to be this cutting and that’s why she was so quick to register the duo’s name; Maybe she even knew who OT was going to win and when Chenoa read the percentage she smiled in his face. lounge chair while petting a cat. The agitation returned with This place, the anthem of this edition which served to bring together all the candidates on the set and to ask myself the same question as during so many galas: what were Téyou and Guillo Rist doing there if they sound better and have more personality than most of the guest artists who visited the program?
It is difficult to predict who will be the Bisbal, Pablo López, Lola Indigo or Aitana of this edition, those who, regardless of their place in the final ranking, end up triumphing. Also if next year, at this stage, we deplore a faded edition or demand a renewal ad aeternum of the format. Or even if there will be an OT 2026. Only Amazon Prime Video knows for the moment. Or maybe not even them, just Selena Leo.
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