In 2005 the caravan of dreams of OT stopped in Zaragoza. One of the aspirants intoned a song from anime Naruto invented in japanese —According to him it was the original lyrics— to the amazement and delight of a jury who accepted it as good that a contestant sang in English without knowing English, but not in Japanese without knowing Japanese. Nothing more typical of television professionals than ridiculing what they do not know. The contestant’s name was Antonio and I met him that year; an educated and shy boy who bore with resignation the sometimes cruel reactions of all the pedestrians who had seen him in OT and in the zapping.
“It is possible that after the summer no one will remember me,” Silvia Padilla said in 2007. But almost 15 years later the Spanish population remembers its Put on your belt.
The talent they are not filled with pitorreo. Talented either. The talent are filled with stories. Sad stories, stories of overcoming, stories of heartbreak. Stories that are lived with more torment than it takes to tell them. A friend told me that at the audition of X Factor There was a box called “history” where the circumstances of the artists were noted: he has lost his son, he is called fat at work, the child is an orphan at six years old and his grandmother wants him to smile again.
I would be lying if I said that Got talent I’m interested in acrobats and imitators; If there isn’t a story, I don’t see it. And like me, the rest of the spectators. The concept is an insane end-of-year play performed by adults. We are saturated with twentysomethings bellowing, and to hear Chandelier We already get to Sía, because there is a very long stretch between the exhibition of qualities and art. We are a little tired of seeing Edurne get excited, so it occurs to me that they could put on a music program, even if it is to try. Maybe even like it.
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