OT Gala 6: Woman against woman

TO Triumph operation The Three Wise Men have brought him tons of sarcasm. Only this surplus explains that in an academic format that has a musical director, coach vocalist, choreographer and even an interpretation teacher, a group of students subjected to the evaluations of a jury that upholds concepts such as “expression” and “tune” perform BZRP Music Sessions Vol. 52, that is, stay by Bizarrap and Quevedo. The anthem of the summer of 2022, a song that in six months exceeded 953 million listens and remained number one in the world for five weeks, but as lacking in any vocal subtlety as the exhaust pipe of a souped-up vespino.

Quevedo is an example of the fallacy on which the most famous Academy of television is based. Obsessed with taking their contestants out of their “comfort zone” – in this gala we have heard so much the horrifying slogan that Ikea should consider a sponsorship –, they prepare the contestants to be an artist with multiple registers that the market does not demand. Taylor Swift's fans don't want to see her doing acrobatics to David Guetta remixes, just for her to continue writing melancholic rebukes to former waywards. Nor is Pablo López required to make a trap album or for Rosalía to switch to ska. Life is already too changeable, it is normal to long for at least when you hit the play At Spotify we have certainties.

Alex Márquez and Paul stuck to the kind of artist they want to be when they leave the academy and used the privilege that their status as nominees gives them to choose a topic. The two opted for low ballads despite the fact that the Spanish musical scene has been oversaturated with melodic singers since Young people. Álex played the With you by Sebastián Yatra and Pablo Alborán with conviction because he is someone who transmits an unwavering faith in himself, although perhaps even he knew that the only doubt about his short-term fate would be in the percentage by which he would be expelled. It was written that Paul, who opted for When The Party's Over by Billie Eilish in Lewis Capaldi's version. He would not live through the end of his party and this was confirmed by the 81.2% of the votes received by Alex to leave the program. Paul has been able to assert what was obvious from the first gala, that he is one of the most interesting contestants of the format. It will not have taken away any votes that last week no teammate saved him, something that he usually stirs up vigilante hearts.

The drowsy placidity of the ballads was shaken by eye of the tigerthe central theme of the third part of Rocky, one of those examples of making a virtue of necessity, found its way to the soundtrack of Sylvester Stallone's film due to Queen's refusal to give in. Another One Bites the Dust. The Survivor anthem served to present Lucas' surprising makeover that, as if he had gone through the fog of Meteor showerbecame the protagonist of The Snow Society to Blas Cantó. It was so obvious that Bea was uncomfortable with the topic for which she was finally nominated and that Ruslana, who looks more like a finalist every week, and Juanjo were in her element with the I Put a Spell on You from the excessive Screamin' Jay Hawkins. Although the singer used to perform it emerging from a coffin, neither of them seems even remotely dead, rather they aim to stay in the program until the end.

They don't know what it's like to receive a nomination, nor do Cris and Naiara who made the version San Millán de la Cogolla The faker. Perhaps it was the first time that it has been possible to appreciate the variety of consonants that fill Ozuna's song. The confusing outfits They lead us to wonder if the friendly Rosa in the costume confused “phony” with “pharaoh.” If there was true justice, they would take her to the court in The Hague. Fortunately, they did not allow themselves to be blinded by their own brilliance and took full advantage of a topic that promised as little brilliance as the flowers by Miley Cyrus that arrived next. A song that only she can make shine, as only she can survive to do twerking with Robin Thicke. Since Álvaro and Violeta are not Miley Stewart by day and Hannah Montana by night, no one gave them flowers, but they did get a nomination.

If last week Chiara was reprimanded by the jury for “not transmitting”, this week, sitting at the piano performing Mine by Belén Aguilera, pirated all the broadcasts in Spain and even moistened Chenoa's eyes. It does not seem like a difficult challenge in view of how intensely the Mallorcan lives everything in general, but it meant correcting the main deficiency of the Spanish-British in the previous gala. Since there is no peace for the chiariststhis week the jury accused her of being out of tune and somewhere and under a baseball cap, Quevedo, the canary, not the prince of the beefs of the Golden Age, it was broken.

The supposed highlight of the night was missing: Martin doing an imitation of pole dance at the rhythm of Alors on Danse Stromae and generating one of those moments that show that opinions are like podcasts, everyone has one. It dazzled social media and the jury, while others saw a shrill and unnecessarily sexualized version of a hymn to resignation. The elegant nihilism of the Belgian is the complete opposite of a number that would have been vulgar even in Cheetahs where Nomi Malone stopped upon her arrival in Las Vegas. It is difficult to understand what need there was to reduce Martin, one of the clear favorites, a good singer and dancer, charismatic and charming, – and half of a relationship that enchants those who only follow the program for the salsa -, to a cosplay by Rodrigo Cuevas performing at a bachelor party that gets out of hand.

Yeah Triumph operation If it were (more) scripted, what happened next would have seemed like an homage to the four Golden Globes he had won a few hours earlier. Succession. As in the Roi series, everything blew up in the middle of its last season, here the big script twist came near the halfway point of the program. With Álvaro, Bea, Chiara and Violeta nominated, the teachers decided to save the always enthusiastic Álvaro. It's hard to know if there's an audience for the music he makes, but he could top any of those rankings of celebrities you'd have a drink with. Álvaro is that kind of person for whom you want everything to go well, but maybe not well enough to win. O.T..

On the popularity catwalk, the
contestants opted for Bea over Chiara while no one wrote Violeta's name. The unthinkable had happened: one of the clear favorites since Gala 0 will leave the Academy next week. They face two inseparable friends since the beginning of the program and in seven days the first fan favorite will be history, to whom the program so attentive to the fandom's fables had given the I kissed a girlbut that was in 2023. New and addictive plots ships wait after midseason because for the new O.T. The thing has never been about singing.

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