New Year's Eve 2022 of 'Cachitos': there is no nostalgia like before, nor is there TV

Nostalgia is no longer what it used to be.

I like to think that since this statement, in addition to a semantic game, is the title of Simone Signoret's memoirs, those of

have decided not to step on one of

s and that is why they have titled their particular New Year's Eve gala

, which comes to say the same thing.

Its seventh year-end special -the program began broadcasting in 2013, in 2014 it was present on December 31, but it was not until 2015 that it broadcast its first original format for New Year's Eve- it has focused on the eighties and has given its umpteenth twist to the concept that supports it: the grief of being absent from the homeland or relatives or friends, or the melancholic sadness caused by the memory of such a loss, according to the RAE.

Nostalgia, come on.

Nostalgia doesn't get a good press.

There are those who believe that they begin by missing the UHF and end up inevitably cheering for Franco, like those who strive to warn us that smoking a joint leads directly to a heroin overdose.

But

proves, year after year, that nostalgia, like any other emotion —or sentimental subgenre in this case— is neither good nor bad in itself.

It all depends on how it is managed.

And

knows how to use it.

There is more to refer to the last nine years.

The program that uses nostalgia in a more self-conscious way could not fail to point out that the eighties are the most prostituted recent decade since commercial longing,

and substitutes.

Or as Virginia Díaz, its presenter, rightly pointed out, “the only nostalgia that has lasted longer than the decade it inspires”.

Danger, not of ending up voting for the Falange, but surrounded by common places around Naranjito.

As it happened at times.

To the musical archaeologists of the RTVE archive, to those people who make us happy labeling, in any case, we forgive everything.

To review the eighties, the program had several guests, a living history of music and musical television.

Gurruchaga opened the season by interpreting his

and Ángel Casas soon appeared on the screen because the first appearance of the Mondragón orchestra on television took place in

, the first program of the deceased Catalan journalist this year.

“I remember him a lot and I have a great appreciation for him – perhaps the program was recorded before Casas' death?

And then came the memory of

and the

in which Gurruchaga and Hervé Villechaize parodied Victoria Prego's interview with Felipe González, and recalled that González himself called him to congratulate him.

“For much less than this, in

we have had to answer parliamentary questions,” Díaz added.

Of course, there was no mention of the 1988 New Year's Eve special Gurruchaga wrote and starred in.

“The tremendous program that scandalized all of Spain and for which he would end up separated from TVE forever.

It is a masterpiece”, as Nacho Vigalondo recalled in 2021.

THE LAST SUPPER, by Javier Gurruchaga, is on YouTube.

The tremendous program that scandalized all of Spain and for which he would end up separated from TVE forever.

It is a masterpiece.

https://t.co/ytaXBRV224

— EVIL BEAMS (@vigalondo) November 21, 2021

Sorry for falling into what the program tries to ironize, but TV hasn't been what it was for too long and to prove it, we went from Gurruchaga to Jordi Évole, who infiltrated the program and ended up singing

with his band Los niños Jesús.

Good attempt to derive audience to Atresmedia.

But before we continue with the eighties guests.

Pablo Carbonell and Pepe Begines, who now have a joint band called Toreros Con Chanclas, scored a medley of the hits of their respective groups:

,

and

,

.

And, of course, there was mention of

, where Pablo Carbonell even said that he believed that children did not read today because there was no program like

.

Other times he has recounted that at that time he was disgusted by the shower in his hostel and thanks to

he could shower at least once a week in his dressing room.

Begines recalled that the first time she was registered with Social Security was in a performance on TVE.

After them, Christina Rosenvinge, protagonist and discreet and insightful observer of the last 40 years of Spanish music, made a splash and appeared on our screen.

Four decades on stage and on sets, in which she has also served as a presenter, which, as

well recalled , she presented the music program

in 1982 and had the opportunity to interview Leonard Cohen.

Or Leonard Cohen had the opportunity to be interviewed by Christina, depending on how you look at it.

She interpreted

, a song that she confessed to be a bit old when it comes to the automotive sector - "Now I'm going by bike" -.

Somewhere in Sweden, Greta Thunberg smiles happily.

The quota of young artists —not necessarily more modern, let's see who beats Gurruchaga or Rosenvinge to modern— was provided by the always nice Varry Brava, who last year helped fire Raffaella Carrá from the same program with his song

, on this occasion they covered

after joking that they got along with each other just like the Cano brothers.

And the question always remains: Are these the performances that we will see in the

20 years from now?

It's almost like having nostalgia for the future.

Carson McCullers wrote that we are most nostalgic for places we haven't known and the future is of course one of them.

Virginia Díaz closed the program with a quote from Jesús Quintero: "Life can be beautiful if one insists on making it so."

The telly too.

#CachitosNochevieja

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 And Olé!!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/yvNZkQ62Sl

— Sunday 🔻 (@izualdomingo) December 31, 2022

#CachitosNochevieja

The graphic subtitle with the graffiti of "EMOSIDO DECEIVED" during Natalie Imbruglia's song "Torn" is the most meta so far in 2023. pic.twitter.com/xH5Zfo17u4

— Ángel Domínguez → mastodon.social/@ahe (@AngelDominguez) January 1, 2023

The girls with the girls...the boys with the boys 🤣🤣🤣 #cachitos #CachitosNochevieja pic.twitter.com/bNiMDfXQBY

— Gustavo Herrera (@tavo_herreraTF) January 1, 2023

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