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“OT” Gala 8: “Operación Triunfo” 2023 is not afraid of our languages

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OT Gala 8 Operacion Triunfo 2023 is not afraid of

Amazon Prime is good for Operación Triunfo because you search for content on the platforms, you don't find it by chance and this eliminates the voyeurs, those who approach the programs just in case there is something to criticize, controversy, morbidity, There is bait. For this reason, in 2018, Miki Núñez performed Una lluna a l'aigua by Txarango, the first song in Catalan to be heard in the program, which led to the program being accused of “independence orientation”. However, yesterday when Chiara and Martin sang their song Escriurem in Catalan and Basque, nothing happened. The origins of this scandal were childish, the group had demonstrated for independence and their singer was on a CUP list, but it was enough to cause controversy.

Yesterday there were no alarming headlines, because there are no longer the idle audience who only watch the show while watching the El Hormiguero commercials, but only dedicated fans, and if they existed, they would have to do it all in one Highlight format, which began its journey in 2001, only four songs were heard in official national languages ​​other than Spanish.

And if Amazon works well for OT, OT seems to work great for Amazon. Despite the opacity that the platforms maintain regarding their audience, Chenoa's announcement of a future tour is the best indicator that the data is good and, even better, that they are successful in reaching young people, the most sought-after segment.

“Everything is a copy,” her mother told Nora Ephron, unknowingly defining OT’s weekly routine. Even though the first chords always seem to point to an original, what comes after is never an original. Nominees Cris and Bea performed two songs by José Luis Perales and Bob Dylan, but in versions by Marc Anthony and Adele. Two strong dishes, as there is only one month left in the program. Bea chose “Make You Feel My Love” and “Cris” chose “And how is he,” one of those songs that, as they said about the police's “Every Breath You Take” in “Only Murders in the Building,” coldly analyzed and seems like a hymn to harassment. If someone asks you these questions about your new partner, changes the lock and blocks, ghosting is sometimes justified.

Adjusted voting and exclusion

After all, it was Bea who will stay at the Academy for another week thanks to a very narrow 52.3% of the vote, and Cris, the candidate who did almost everything well, did not help him win the enthusiasm of the public, who left the academy. Maybe because it lacks the intangible thing they call “history.”

Juanjo, last week's favorite, had to leave his “comfort zone”. This time there were no sweet ballads in the service of his impressive vocal ability, but he had to deal with reggaeton by Tini and María Becerra, a genre that had little to do with his beloved Jota. The final result would have been disappointing in a Eurojunior qualifier.

There are contestants with insulting confidence even when faced with inappropriate songs. This week Naiara had the beautiful The Cat in the Rain, composed by Rafael Pérez-Botija for Rocío Durcal. As Chenoa pointed out, her skill is “singing,” but it's hard to believe that she's ever uttered expressions like “making love to me,” and even more so that anyone has left her high and dry. Or at least that he left her and lived to tell the tale. Durcal's song is sung out of sorrow, but she does it out of anger, because in no multiverse can Naiara imagine humiliating herself so much in front of an ex that she would be limiting herself if she asked him for degrading sex out of compassion until to slashing the wheels of his car and boiling a rabbit in a pot à la Alex Forrest in “Fatal Attraction.” The song asks about drowned despair, and she sings it like someone who knows that if she orders a coffee, she'll open a Nespresso boutique, a Starbucks franchise, or three hundred acres in coffee country.

A very excited Miki, who appeared on the set and was proud that his song was performed in the competition that brought him popularity, was not the only participant from the past to play a leading role. Ruslana had to deal with Aitana & Rels B's “Miamor” and the supposedly “pornographic” choreography that sparked one of the most surreal controversies of last year when someone took the Twitter joke seriously and it snowballed into a whole current of opinion about something that hadn't happened. The wonderful world of social networks.

As with SloMo, Rulsana also had to collapse on stage, because while the other participants have their greatest momentum in digestion at every gala, the Ukrainian only has to go through rings of fire, skin a yak and swim in a shark pit at every gala.

The reborn Lucas, dressed in all the jewels snatched from the Osage nation – today are the Oscar nominations and it's clear there are some Scorsese fans in the Academy – performed the classic “One Way or Another” as youthful anthem that appears to be nothing like the complaint against a harassing ex-boyfriend that Debbie Harry wrote as a self-defense mechanism. Even a discreet me, when no one could even dream of a me. Since everything is a copy, the Uruguayan didn't play the original version of Blondie, but rather One Direction's. It wasn't his best performance, but Lucas is in good shape and that not only saves him from the nominations, it also made him the favorite of the week and I'll probably win him all the way to the finale.

That what matters is not to win and sometimes not even to participate is confirmed by Leo Rizzi, who in addition to being rejected in the 2018 edition, also performed his hit Amapolas by Álvaro and Paul, two of the most underrated participants of the edition saw . After paying tribute to the anti-Covid screens, they showed that although Chenoa wants to be there in everything, she doesn't have the life to distinguish shipping from Salseo, but she tries and it's enough. Paul and Álvaro Mayo discovered on their Christmas trip that some spectators were sending them, and the management of the Academy, always wary of morbidity, gave them one of these songs for a soloist, which they accidentally turned into a duet to bring “Polvorón” to greater fame to bring “, their shipping mark, sometimes couple names are a bit unfortunate.

Operation Buika

During the evaluations, it became clear that the jury and Amazon Prime subscribers had seen two different galas. I'm becoming more and more aware that since the last appearance at Operation Buika, the singer has given us phrases like “slowness is precision and precision is speed,” because when she's not tearing participants apart, she's writing the phrases for Chinese restaurants' fortune cookies. Then she rated Lucas with an “If you tell me, come, I will tell you, offer me without discount,” which amounts to the complete work of Saint Teresa of Jesus in twelve words.

For another week, all Juanjo had to do was walk the runway because he had “worked hard,” while the 47 Olympic disciplines that Ruslana recreated on stage were missing “a surprising point.” Let's see, it is true that he could have achieved his feat by sliding down a 30 meter high rope a la Pinito del Oro, in fact it is physically possible. It did? No, well nominated. Like Alvaro and Paul. Their voices became boring, both wasted chemistry, physics and even citizenship education, but it wasn't enough because they weren't “pushing themselves forward.” Bea's excellent performance wasn't enough to knock her out of the nomination again. OT is confirmation that there is no such thing as a meritocracy. The same applies as on the outside: be good-looking and pleasing. As expected, the teachers saved Ruslana, the classmates chose Bea, and the public will have the thankless task of putting an end to the “dust-raising.”

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