As if they had heard Fangoria begging that “I don’t want any more drama in my life”, the second semifinal of the Benidorm Fest opted this Thursday for slightly more lively moods, which did not cost so much.
The final selection yielded a song to universal love with an electro-flamenco base (Blanca Paloma), the classic disco-pop to burn up the dance floor (Vicco), a certain adorable folk song from a small town in La Mancha (Karmento) and, yes, an inevitable affected ballad (José Otero)all of them deserving of the attention of their excellencies the voters.
Finally, a bit of hedonism: he provided it, above all, vicco, from Tiana, with ‘Nochentera’, a mismatched title to match that effective three-piece Frankenstein whose bridge comes to shoot the chorus of ‘Tacones rojos’, by Sebastián Yatra. One and a half million listeners of the song (the most listened to of the entire contest) could not be wrong, and thus it was noted, standing out very soon in the vote count.
But the first place was not taken by the favorite Vicco, but by the repeater White Dove. After the new age song of 2022, the woman from Elche was right in outlining flamenco melismas and copla inflections, with a subtle electronic base (and beautiful choreography in red and white). Occurrences like this condemned poor Remedios Amaya to zero patatero 40 years ago now, but they were other times, we understand. Song with the contours of a lullaby, transmitting a mother-child attachment that could soften the continental public if necessary.
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It’s a pity that the two most modern proposals will end up in the ditch. about Rakky Ripperdeserving fan of hyperpop a la Charli XCX, could be expected, but e’femme better luck was predicted for her with her likeable ‘Uff!’, resolved with the ease of a Korean ‘girl group’. That he will benefit from his punctures that brick called ‘Winters on Mars’, by the nightingale José Otero (big voice, all right), you have no forgiveness. At least, the other of the four places was taken, by surprise, by the Albacete Karmento, that, although she sang a bit overexcited (was it necessary to move her arms so much?), she charmed her with her folk invocation of emptied Spain.
Alfred Garcia and Siderland they stood out a little more for their staging than for their songs: a ballad with emotional aspirations and a euphoric anthem a la Coldplay (in Catalan), respectively. And the other elimination, that of Famous, with ‘La Lola’, an atrocious piece, he indicated to us that the voting system adopted by TVE could be the most fair and balanced.