Rigoberta Bandini, Rayden, Gonzalo Hermida and Xeinn yesterday obtained the valued support of the jury and the viewers to continue forward in the race to represent Spain in Turin, to obtain the direct pass to Eurovision 2022. The endorsement received during the second semifinal of the Benidorm Fest will allow them to compete in tomorrow’s grand final along with the proposals that passed the first selection, that of last Wednesday’s gala, in which the people from Alicante shone Blanca Paloma and Varry Brava, in addition to Tanxugueiras and, above all, Chanel.
¡We have a teta! Taking a breast out is still a transgression, as long as it is a female breast, of course, and the one who is considered one of the revelation artists of the moment, the Barcelonan Rigoberta Bandini, met expectations by clearing up the unknown. Its scenery, one of the most anticipated of the evening, put the spotlight on a world tit, the planetary and most international breast that, without a doubt, has never been on a Eurovision stage. The mother of all boobs. The euroteta that unleashed the madness. Her theme Ay mama, which is on its way to rising to the category of a hymn to femininity, revolves around the moms who claim to be brave, fresh, free of all hypersexualization.
His long-awaited staging resulted in a cry against censored bodies inside and outside social networks, one of the most applauded moments of the gala, the one that everyone wanted to record with their mobile. It was a performance with the distinctive Bandini hallmark, with a soft and melodic start and which was gaining strength until reaching an explosive climax, danceably apotheosis. The interpretation that started with the vocalist corseted in a white wedding dress evolved until it was stripped from her in a simulation of the artist’s liberation, who energetically exclaimed that “I don’t know why our boobs are so scary, without them there would be no humanity or beauty. A tribute in the form of a song that speaks openly about menstruation, the same one that pays homage to all the «mamamama…mamma, the one who calls the city to stop, «taking a breast out in the pure Delacroix style», the painter Frenchman who signed the work Liberty guiding the people, which served as inspiration to compose a theme that does not intend to represent anyone, but that, at the same time, represents everything.
The performance of Rayden, the rapper from Madrid who sends the public to cry on Calle de la llorería, was another of the proposals that, according to the pools of eurofans, had all the ingredients to obtain direct access to the final competition. With a theme that deals with showing the security of being vulnerable, he showed off an impressive set design. It showed that each detail was measured to the millimeter through a letter that invites reflection. Urban sound and Rayden is pure state with a show produced by and for broadcast on the small screen. Because ultimately the Benidorm festival born with the label of a festival, but it is configured as a television show, and that is something that does not go unnoticed among those attending the Palau d’Esports L’Illa, mecca of the eurofan, mecca of the inevitable eurodrama.
electronics and neon
A disco theme could not be missing, and less so in the land that gave itself up in the nineties to the excesses of the indomitable route of the bakalao. Chilean singer-songwriter Javier Mena defended Culpa, his ode to “dyke epilepsy” that rose in tone to a denouement full of electronic music, illuminated by neon and around the revered mixer that beats the temples at night.
Xeinn, with its theme Eco, put one of the pop notes to the event. The man from Madrid defended a song reminiscent of The Weeknd and that speaks of the moment in which you find that someone who is for life, with a 90s background scenery and a composition that seems to be designed to compete with the Swedish supre-productions of dye Eurovision. Because the truth is that if there is something that RTVE has been looking for, it is a transversal show capable of relaunching the expectation for Eurovision with established and emerging artists, with a mixture of musical styles, including Marta Sango from Malaga, clad in a colorful futuristic-inspired costumes to defend his good-natured song Sigues en mi mente, or the melodic ballad by Gonzalo Hermida, a native of Cádiz who was unable to defend his live performance due to being confined due to covid infection. In its place, the video clip of his song Who would say it was projected, characterized by some vocal twists, of course, infinitely more interesting than those of Sara Deop.
Impeccable was the performance as guest artist of the representative in Eurovision 2014, Ruth Lorenzo, with the iconic Bailar Pegados with which Sergio Dalma reached a significant fourth position in 1991. The show continues tomorrow, with the delivery of the coveted passport to Turin.
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Eddie is an Australian news reporter with over 9 years in the industry and has published on Forbes and tech crunch.