Music is in vogue among boys and girls catalans. And ‘Eufòria’ is to blame. He Palau Sant Jordi This Sunday will be filled, twice, with followers of this TV-3 program that in a couple of years has become a mass phenomenon, especially among the little ones. “The children have seized the remote control,” he summed up graphically. Christian Trepathead of TV-3 Entertainment and Current Affairs Programs, at the end of the first edition.
Music teachers admit that the TV-3 program has popularized music among the little ones, but they warn of the danger of trivialization
“The audience for ‘Eufòria’ among children and young people cannot be compared to any other programme”, explains Marta Narberhaus, a journalist and professor at the International University of Catalonia (UIC), who has directed a study on the success of this ‘talent show’initially intended for teenagers and which, to the surprise of its promoters, began to be consumed by a large number of children. Proof of this is that the final gala of the second edition on June 9 achieved 26.2% of screen share, more than fifteen points from the second option. And if it was even more among viewers between thirteen and twenty-four years old –28%–, among those between four and twelve years old it was 49%. Some data that have noticed live and direct the music schools and academies.
“We have noticed it a lot. The number of students in singing classes has grown”
“We have noticed it a lot,” he says laura venturadirector of exit, a performing arts school in Barcelona. “Now parents see music with better eyes,” he points out, from Valls, james martinezsinging teacher and director of the music academy Staff. “The number of students in singing classes has grown. It’s been happening for a few years, but ‘Eufòria’ is consolidating it”, he adds Jordi Artigaseducator and director of Musicàrea School of Music, Vilanova i la Geltrú.
summer campus
“There are other musical programs like ‘OT’, ‘La Voz’ or ‘Tu cara me suena’, but they have not had any repercussions in our school,” Ventura emphasizes. With ‘Eufòria’ it’s different, she assures. For this reason, last year in their center they already incorporated an activity related to the musical program into the artistic summer event. And triumph. “Everyone asks for it.” The success of the ‘talent show’ among children is such that even this year TV-3 has organized Euphoria Campussome colonies for fans of the program.
“Musical education is not singing and succeeding,” warns Llorenç Domènech
“These programs have a positive aspect, such as the diffusion of the musical fact between children and young people,” says Llorenc Domenechdirector of the Creu Alta Music School of Sabadell and president of Escoles de Música d’Iniciativa Privada de Catalunya (EMIPAC). However, he adds, the negative part is trivialization. “It already happened with programs like ‘OT’ or ‘La Voz’, where you see people who sing and succeed. And the musical education its not this. People come to us in music schools, especially girls between the ages of 15 and 20, who want to learn to sing without minimal musical training. And this type of student body has to be redirected.”
Domènech also assures that many parents They go to the academies with their young children, six or seven years old, because they want them to sing. “This is outrageous. Until puberty you can’t do serious work with your voice,” she explains. “People are dazzled by this type of program, and what you have to explain to parents is that music goes beyond the fact of singing, as well as the benefits it brings,” she adds.
Learning to play an instrument implies discipline and perseverance and this favors good school performance
And one of these advantages is the school performance. “Normally, a music student does well at school, because learning to play an instrument implies discipline, perseverance”affirms Dòmenech, who exemplifies it with the case of Ramon Bernadas, one of the two Catalan students who last year got a 10 in the selectivity, a student at the academy he directs.
And there are other advantages. “There are children who are not capable of express yourself orally, but they feel more confident with music, be it singing or dancing. Because music is linked to an area of the brain that is not rational and that connects with emotion,” Ventura abounds.
get out of reggaeton
In addition, according to Artigas, ‘Eufòria’ allows “getting out of reggaetón and other things like that”. “The songs on the program are sometimes not for television or commercials, but rather pieces from other times that have been dusted off,” agrees Ventura, who was surprised when some of his students hummed ‘Remena nena’, a song that in the 70s popularized Guillermina Motta.
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Because the program’s repertoire includes songs in Spanish and English, but also in Catalan. “They have enhanced song in catalanand this hooks many families”, says Ventura. “Thanks to the programme, Catalan has been brought up to date among a child and youth audience that all the impact it has is usually in Spanish or English”, he points out Laura Pinyolcounselor secretary of the Consell de l’Audiovisual de Catalunya (CAC) and head of the EduCAC program, which promotes media education.
Another aspect that the children have learned from ‘Eufòria’ is the sexual diversity –several contestants have openly declared themselves homosexual and one was even transsexual–. Also to see singers with non-normative bodies. Not to mention when Sofia, a contestant in the second edition, sang, by her own decision, with a transparent dress that allowed her to see her breasts. “The program has normalized all this and has allowed different ways of being on stage to be seen,” Ventura points out. “‘Eufòria’ is a breath of fresh air that allows us to approach a series of debates that we have as a society with normality”, adds Pinyol, who also chairs the Table for Diversity in the Audiovisual. “In this aspect, TV-3 is educating. They have made a group and a reality more visible,” says Martínez. “They have succeeded in making it clear that everyone can sing,” concludes Artigas.