His interpretation of That diva on the scenario of Benidorm Fest as if he were taking stock in The swing of Fragonard. The Sevillian has won the contest with a proposal full of visual and sound stimuli. His has been pure Rococó adapted to his own style. Accompanied by a giant comb with thorns throne and dressed in an Andalusian hat, he has shown without dissimulation and between choreographic pirouettes that his musical influences drink from the Mexican Gloria Trevi.
The singer will represent Spain in the month of May, after exceeding the almost one thousand candidate songs that have appeared to this edition of the Alicante contest and obtaining 150 points in the final. Daniela Blasco has been in second position (141 points) and J Kbello (134 points) has closed the podium.
It has not been an easy path for the 34 -year -old artist, who had already participated without success in the 2009 Eurovisive preselection, being in second position against Soraya Arnelas. – “I am glad, because I have grown up as an artist since then,” said Melody in the early morning from Saturday to Sunday before the press, after finishing Benidorm Fest. A few days ago, he suffered the filtration of one of his rehearsals in the form of video on social networks, then dazzled the high moment of his proposal. But the singer promised to grow in the decisive performance, this Saturday. And he has fulfilled. Supported by the televoto, Melody will travel to Basel (Switzerland) in May. He had been announcing that, from going to Eurovision, he will adapt the concept of That diva To the international public. And if something has proven to be Andalusian it is solid and practically infallible live.
“The industry [de la música] It doesn’t value me the same as the public. But time puts everyone in place, ”said Sevillian in 2023 on television, while promoting his latest album, financed by herself. It was very difficult that, after its powerful performance, the audience that has seen Melody grow on television does not increase it until victory, compensating the score of the professional jury, which has relegated That diva to a third position of your voting ranking. 39% of voter viewers through the application of RTVE and the phone have chosen Melody among the eight applicants. The second most voted, Daniela Blasco, has stayed with half: 18% of the registered votes.
This year, the matter has not been reduced to a duel between the winners of the two semifinals, since the organization has decided not to reveal the scores obtained by the candidates in the previous phase. The jury has driven J Kbello giving him his maximum score, but almost with the same assessment as Daniela Blasco and Melody. The difference in points in this voting phase has been minimal.
The overwhelming presence of Melody at Benidorm Fest personifies one of the great evils of the Spanish music industry. There are not enough good pop composers for so much scenic talent, mainly feminine. The portentous voice and claw of Ruth Lorenzo, Chenoa, Soraya Arnelas, Roko, Angie Fernández and Melody herself (in addition to Blas Cantó, Agoney and Jorge González) do not find the appropriate repertoire or musical concept that support throughout the Time a successful record career that should also be international. They are not, in short, the Manuel Alejandro, Juan Carlos Calderón or Augusto Algueró of the 21st century. Nor does it help that current musical trends have betrayed themselves so much that they have reached the point of abandoning the melodies. Another sample button: the most recent theme that Chenoa included in the medley Of great successes that he interpreted at the beginning of Thursday’s semifinal dates back 23 years.
J Kbello arrived at Benidorm Fest sponsored by Chanel, the first winner of the contest, and also for Blas Cantó, who has represented Spain in Eurovision twice in a row, virtually in 2020 by the Pandemia of the Coronavirus and in Róterdam in 2021. And as J Kbello himself explained to the press, the subject VIP It arises from a study session for a theme that was designed for Cantó himself, who has ended up coordinating the official video of the Gaditano song.
After the two semifinals held on Tuesday and Thursday, Melody had achieved a overtaking In official surveys, surpassing Lachispa, who lost his favorite status (which has finally been fifth, with 98 points) in a live that did not convince either the audience or the jury or the experts. Once all the proposals on stage throughout the week, the Eurofans They supported J Kbello as the best possible candidate to represent Spain in Eurovision. A few minutes before the start of the final, it was in second position in those predictions, the same place in their day occupied the rest of the winners of Benidorm Fest: Chanel, Blanca Paloma and Nebulsa. But this time that curious tradition has not been fulfilled. Daniela Blasco, with a proposal very similar to the Slo From Chanel but without his roundness on stage, he has stayed nine points in the victory. The fourth position has been for the revelation of this edition, the Canarian Mel Ömana (117 points), which won adherents this Thursday after its live interpretation of the theme I’m a Queen.
It has been a final in which all participants have maintained or improved the level of their actions in the semifinals, probably vitaminated by an audience that has supported and chanted all of them. Part of the merit falls to the professional jury, which was in charge of reaching this final two great vocal interpretations. One of them Sun radius of Mawot and the other of Lucas Bun and his I write you in the sky. Although neither of them entered among the public’s favorites, they went from Ronda thanks to the points of the eight music professionals whose opinion had 50% of the points distributed.
Audience success
This edition has been, for the moment, a public success, with the full stands on its three nights live. It has also been a triumph in audience matters for RTVE, which has obtained 13.1 and 11.7% in the issuance of its two semifinals, exceeding last year’s data. An hour before starting the final of this Saturday, a group of friends from Castilla La Mancha were already located in the front row to have a privileged view of the stage. They had been another hour more waiting on the street of a rainy and winter Benidorm to be as close as possible to artists during their performances. Their entrances, achieved in the resale, have cost them between 40 and 50 euros.
This year, the amount raised by the thousands of tickets that RTVE has officially put on sale for the two semifinals and the final will be donated in full to the victims of the Dana, which especially hit the region. A little more than 100 kilometers away from Palau d’Esports l’Elilla de Benidorm, thousands of people have requested this afternoon in the rainy streets of Valencia the resignation of the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Marón, for his management of This crisis. Convened by more than 200 civic, social and union entities of the region, it is the fourth mass demonstration since October, when the catastrophe occurred.
