St. Pedro (164 points), María Peláe (131 points), Jorge González (122 points) and Almácor (115 points) are the four artists that complete the list of eight finalists for the Benidorm Fest 2024. They will compete this Saturday together with the Tuesday Nebulossa, Angy Fernández, Sofia Coll and Miss Caffeina in a gala broadcast live on La 1 (22.05) for winning the Alicante competition and representing Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest in May in Malmö (Sweden). . From this gala comes the successor proposal for SloMo by Chanel and Eaea by Blanca Paloma.
The canary St. Pedro is included in the shortlist of favorites. He chose minimalism to defend Two Strangers (String Quartet), one of the most popular candidates for months. It's a classic bolero that adds more elegant Latin jazz piano and an effective vocal performance to the meticulous string arrangements that announce its title.
María Peláe has returned to “spend potatoes” with “Remitente”, a version of one of the songs from her latest album, but the shadow of Blanca Paloma's “Eaea” and her poor rating in last year's Liverpool Televote have weighed on her. His song took second place this Thursday, largely thanks to the support of the expert jury at the gala hosted by Ruth Lorenzo, Marc Calderó and Ana Prada.
Jorge González took his harem of dancers to a sauna to defend Caliente. Like other times at the Benidorm Fest, a powerful production has once again produced a song that is not current, not very original and sounds like Ricky Martin from 15 or 20 years ago. His harem would probably be larger if European regulations didn't ban him. Although lawyers have debated for months whether the European Union would block Puigdemont's complex amnesty, the things that really matter are much more complicated. For more than half a century, the EBU has limited the number of people on stage during a Eurovision performance. More than six is an orgy. It is not allowed. The low score awarded to him by the expert jury drew so many boos at the Alicante venue that its spokesperson, Beatriz Luengo, went into booka mode to silence the protests.
María Peláe has qualified for the final of the Benidorm Fest 2024.RTVE
In this edition, Almácor is the representative of the fashionable Quevedismo genre with platinum diamonds and a production designed for television. Despite its shortcomings, his proposal has many things that are not found, for example, in the songs of Omar Montes: diction, moderately intoned live voice (which was much better heard live than on his broadcast, in a strange autotune effect, which is the opposite of RTVE). galas take place) and a refrain. One that is also catchy. His song is suitable for everything, for the Los 40 Urban radio formula, for Eurovision and as a soundtrack for the preliminary rounds in the next horns of The Island of Temptations.
“Brillos platino” by Almácor was one of the most celebrated performances by Benidorm audiences.RTVE
After the afternoon rehearsals, the trade press gave the impression that we were in a second semi-final that was tougher than the first, which resulted in one of the favorites, Marlena, being eliminated from the final eight candidates. same as Yoly. Saa, Roger Padrós and Dellacruz. It's been a great week for lesbian visibility. So much so that he died of success. As Eva Güimil advanced this Tuesday, the lesbian vote has a lot to do. He is too busy saving Chiara from elimination from Operación Triumph to also support his many representatives at the Benidorm Fest: Peláe, Yoly Saa and Marlena in this second semi-final. Even Dulceida focused on saving Chiara in her Instagram stories, while Ana Legazpi sang “And we will give ourselves a viral kiss” in Marlena’s Summer Love. Legazpi used his 30-second speech on TVE to ask for a vote for the Prime Video show's candidate. And the audience listened to him and put his song second to last in the televoting at the Benidorm Fest.
The expert jury's rating for the three galas in this edition counts as 50%. The other half goes to the public vote, although in this case it is divided into two: 25% corresponds to the demographic jury – a statistical sample of 350 people representing the Spanish population – and 25% depends on televoting, that is, on the news and Telephone calls from viewers of live galas.
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