No longer hidden: “Queer community, vote for me”-it was heard during the Song Festival

Napa, Diana Vilarinho, Fernando Daniel, Bombazine, Emmy Curl and… Henka cleared. And total? And Luca Algiers? A private semi-final.

There were at least three private moments in the second semi-final of the Song Festival 2025which took place last Saturday at RTP studios.

”, from Napa. ”, by Diana Vilarinho. “, by Fernando Daniel. ”, by Bombazine. E ” by Emmy Curl.

These were the first five songs cleared for the contest final. It was the choices of the jury and the public, in a mixture of votes. List defined, there is no point in “complaining” or saying that this or that could have been out.

But there is the other side of the story: of the 10 participants in the midfield, only four were left out-and three of them were, from The Cantadeira; , of Tota; and also from the duel Luca Algiers and Pri Azevedo.

Now here are three songs that, for me, would easily take 12 points… None will be in the final.

The case of the “Response to the Woman”, which deserves applause, will even be the easiest to understand: almost jaundice directly with one of the cleared: ‘Peace Rhapsody’from Emmy Curl. Part of the rhythm, part of the content, part of the goal of both coincided. Just one, perhaps. He passed Catarina Miranda (Emmy Curl), which will repeat the presence in the festival final, something he already did in 2018 – and almost won at the time.

But then the first of two pearls appeared:

The action impresses. It’s strong, it’s well thought out. In the poem written by me.clides, in “Á-Tê-Xis” Nothing is written by chance. And it is curious that, in a seemingly increasingly younger audience of the festival, generation Y or even generation Z have not noticed this letter of encrypted, between zeros and some, with high and stops byte, of exhausted metaphors. The young people had the opportunity to “save” this song and put it in the final; They didn’t.

A few minutes later, we heard this:

An accordion, a voice. Chico Buarque and Luiz Gonzaga mixed in Luca Algiers. White clothes, potatoes and cabbage. ‘Who was it?’ It brought something so sweet, a unique melody, mixed with such serious verses. A hymn to those who work or worked. An anti-xenophobia poem, if we hear well. “The idea is to disarm the person he hears,” commented composer and interpreter Luca Argel. And nothing to say about the interpretation. It seems that the public and the jury did not notice this work-work who passed there through the RTP studio.

“I want to destroy you”

I left the list of the first five songs up there. The Friday is missing, which was an exclusive choice of the public.

Portugal radio and television viewers preferred Henka and yours.

“Oh the others were to sleep, from a gray Portugal, songs to sleep,” reads easily between comments on social networks.

First, the singer and Tota did not take songs “to sleep”. And Luca Argel’s seems to remember Salvador Sobral’s tranquility – what was the result of this in 2017?

Second, so we prefer a noise… a song that has right in the title “I want to destroy you” And in the middle we read “I leave your bones, I put a blade in your throat” – very good.

But it was Henka’s melody. Much more beautiful and much better worked than Luca Algiers, for example.

“Queer, vote for me”

In recent times, especially over the past decade, the Eurovision Song Festival has been increasingly associated – with fundamentals – with communities gay, LGBTQ+ or queer. There are even those who say the Eurovision Festival are the.

Before the sixth and last song is announced for the final of the Song Festival, there was (more) a time to fill the emission, while the votes took place.

Probably many viewers have not even heard this part, because there are those who dispense with those interviews in green room, about food and expectations (or freaks).

But there was a moment that was unheard of at the RTP festival: within seconds, two participants directly asked a community to vote for them. Both to queer.

“Queer Community: I am here representing you. So if you want to vote for me, strength. Don’t be afraid of being yourself, ”said Inês Marques Lucas, a singer of ‘.

“Malta, we have to give Portugal a Abanão. Alternative malta, Malta Queer: We have to represent Portugal“Said Henka – she got what she wanted, Inês Marques Lucas not.

Laca missed Luca Algiers to ask for votes from the Brazilian community. I lacked. Clides appeal to the vote of the African community. And the singer was missing to ask votes from feminist communities and the adufe community.