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EUROVISION 2023: SPAIN - BLANCA PALOMA WINS BENIDORM FEST 2023

The reborn Spanish Eurovision  reached climax last night when Benidorm Fest final was held and won by Blanca Paloma and her flamenco Eaea . She won the jury vote, televote and came second in the demoscopic jury so most likely there won't be such a chaotic uprising like last year when Chanel won (and how did that end??). Blanca Paloma was there already last year and it is quite remarkable her Secreto de agua finished 5th. And guess what? these two songs are the only two songs she has ever recorded! As she's not a singer (with that voice!!!) but set and costume designer! Actually her last year's entry was a theme song for a tv-series she ended up singing.  So, even if not my favorites as you can read in my review I totally admire her and this song. Brave move from Spain that has too often sent plastic Europop written by Swedes. However, flamenco (inspired) songs have had mixed fortunes in Eurovision from Remedios Amaya's fantastic Quien maneja mi barca that scored a fla...

SPAIN: WE NEED SPANISH FLAVOR LIKE DEMARCO OR ALBORAN IN EUROVISION!

Spain has a rich easily recognizable flavor to its music that most everyone likes, at least in summer :-) Despacito has been the biggest hit globally for a decade and stll, most likely, Spain is going to send some nonsense or Swedish bubblegum to Lisbon 2018 Eurovision song contest - don't they ever learn?  Portugal won with a song that was very Portuguese and didn't try to please anyone or pow to any direction but the domestic market, if even that. And just because it didn't try to please anyone it pleased everyone. The same happened with Finland. When we sent something that was very Finnish and what Finns like, not giving a sh*t what the rest of Europe (and some Finns) think, we finally won with heavy rock and Lordi. So, how about it Spain? Send something like superstar Pablo Alboran is doing, or the new flamenco king, the male Azucar Moreno in one: Demarco Flamenco . Spanish as can be with a lot of flamenco flavor to make it stand out. Pretty please? ...