Chiara and Lucas, after knowing the results.Operation Triumph
Although the title of this chronicle sounds like a novel by Colette set, instead of in Montigny, in the Mediterranean orchard, it is the summary of what has been this atypical week in
Operación Triunfo
.
Atypical because rarely has a nominated contestant reconciled such fiery and diverse support.
Chiara,
Kiki
for
her very loud fandom,
has been supported, among many others, by Irene Montero and Risto Mejide, Aldi and AliExpress, Lola Índigo and Mónica Carrillo.
Some used social networks, others like the Marlena duo took advantage of their 30 seconds of self-promotion at the Benidorm Fest to support her, there was even an initiative financed through
crowdfunding
that placed a “Save Chiara” in the neon lights of Times Square.
An impetus and a twinning between opposites similar to the one that this week has united those who came out to avenge the honor of the national tomatoes, dragged through the mud by the former French minister Ségolène Royal.
Pedro Sánchez classified them as “unbeatable”, “spectacular” added Cuca Gamarra, “the tastiest in the world” declared José Andrés in a counteroffensive reminiscent of the best times of
The Vegetable War,
by La Trinca.
How wonderful it would have been to choose it as a group song and at the same time claim the quality of our nightshades and the origins of the creators of
Operación Triunfo
, Josep María Mainat and Toni Cruz.
Win win.
Unfortunately, instead of “Where you allez with this truck, where you allez grandisim cochon,” the girls sang
We Are Young
,
by Fun and Janelle Monáe, a generational anthem that celebrates youth and
carpe diem,
but says nothing of the raf nor of the kumato.
After receiving 💥OVER 8 MILLION VOTES💥📲 between SAVE and FAVORITE NOMAD, you have decided that CHIARA will become the contestant leaving the Academy tonight 😔 Thank you for everything you have given us, Kiki!
🫂 Many successes await you abroad and we have… pic.twitter.com/CjtMrJIOUG
— Operación Triunfo (@OT_Oficial) February 5, 2024
To stay at the Academy, Lucas turned to Aerosmith's
I Don't Want To Miss a Thing,
the theme song to
Armageddon.
Singing of excessive literality, the staging consisted solely of the Uruguayan singing around a supposedly sleeping woman and something that was supposedly romantic bordered on the sinister and, more than the
Sleeping Beauty,
referred to the burundanga, which added Sara Montiel's Dior-style filter with which they blurred the already young, beautiful and smooth Lucas was more disconcerting than the sequence between Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler and the animal-shaped cookies.
Chiara also signed up for the rock attitude and resorted to the
You Oughta Know
that Alanis Morissette dedicated to her ex-boyfriend Dave Coulier, Uncle Joey from
Full House.
She did what she could, she even played the guitar to score points, but the Canadian anthem is a mane song - the Alanis of the nineties was 50% rage and 50% hair - and the Menorcan song, which like Lucas She also took advantage of her time in the contest to get a makeover, she was missing both ingredients.
Even Almácor knows that visual effects do not make you win or lose, but the strange aliens that accompanied her performance will not have helped her either.
Tribute to
Slender Man?
Mr. Burns bringing us love?
The reality of Naiara
He did accompany the staging of Naiara, who made Rosalía's
Desphá
her own among bumper cars and without the
wardrobe malfunction
that played tricks on her at the first bus pass.
Although we continue to see Maña on stage, she is no longer in the contest, she is on the tour, on her own, on the Naiara World Tour, most of the contestants are a project, Naiara is already a reality.
Less energetic was the delicate
I don't need you anymore,
by the Galician Sen Senra, with which Martín fought to get a place among the three direct finalists.
Acting after a force of nature like Naiara is never easy, nor remains in your memory if Paul appears behind you, now
Paul Thin
- what a great name for an adult film actor - someone capable of improving any subject, yesterday He did it with
Paenmorar,
by Paula Cendejas.
And from a recent song to an eighties classic, Juanjo faced a vocal
tour de force
with
Take On Me
by A-ha, one of those songs so familiar that they seem simple until you confront them in karaoke and discover that Morten Harket was much more than
denim,
great hair and a Magnum look.
On its way to becoming a classic is
El mundo
, by Pablo López, one of the most covered artists in
OT
and the best example of how little the jury's grievances and your final position in the contest matter.
Ruslana once again demonstrated her ability to adapt to all styles and that is more than what the rest of her colleagues can say.
As for performances, the gala ended with
María Jiménez's
It's Over , which Bea transformed into a hit.
If only the quality of the voices were measured, it would be the undisputed winner, also if patience in the face of the jury's random judgments and systematic mistreatment by the costume department were valued, but in
OT
there is as much or more
reality
than
talent
and that part has never favored her.
Her vocal ability is prodigious, yes, but the performance of the former Auryn Dani Fernández showed that even with a voice more unpleasant than scratching a blackboard with your fingernails, you can succeed.
Contrary effects
The first high point of the night came when the results of the voting to save one of the nominees were revealed, a duel for which eight million votes were received, “a nonsense” in the words of Chenoa.
Lucas does not have ads in
midtown
New York but he has a tank top, and that was enough to show the lack of reliability of social networks, what is a shout in X or in Meta is barely a whisper in the three-dimensional and Uruguayan world He won, getting 67% of the votes.
“A nonsense” at this point in the contest that leaves a question in the air: has the crushing support for Chiara caused an effect contrary to the desired one?
That Ruslana gets the lowest score when her worst performance has been this...#OTGala10 pic.twitter.com/OwyR1CJCy3
— ☆ .⭒.ﾟirene escarmiento ☆ .⭒.ﾟ (@irenescarmiento) February 5, 2024
This week the jury did not have the capacity to nominate, but to save two contestants, they valued not the performance of the night, but their career, so it was not a surprise that after not being nominated even once Naiara and Juanjo became the first two finalists, nor that the teachers sent Paul to the final—he and Naiara were going to improvement—while the others attended singing initiation.
Now the public will have to choose between Lucas, Bea, Martín and Ruslana.
Ukraine's assessment was the one that most outraged the audience.
After 11 galas in which he combined performances worthy of both a final of
The Voice
and the entrance tests to the Circo del Sol, he received the worst score from the jury.
There were cries of tongo, but the blood did not reach the river because Buika knows how to handle beasts.
How much she missed it at the Benidorm Fest, how much the seriousness of
OT
was generally missed in the face of the mess that was at times the TVE format.
If Amazon Prime Video wants to consolidate its product, it only has to watch the third edition of the Benidorm Fest and not repeat any of its mistakes.
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