“You already know that I always talk about politics, so if that is the case, cut it later,” Massiel told RTVE Communications Director María Eizaguirre, after releasing what surely no one on the public channel expected him to release. the artist, who was only going to sponsor the presentation of the Benidorm Fest 2024.
Under the scorching summer sun of Benidorm, RTVE has kicked off the 2024 edition of the Benidorm Fest from which the new Spanish representative for next year’s Eurovision Song Contest will emerge, and who knows if the winner will also emerge.
From May 16 to October 10, RTVE is looking for the successor to Chanel and Blanca Paloma. Who will win the Benidorm Fest 2024 and will represent Spain in Eurovision? A question that will be discovered in the coming months. Meanwhile, the public channel is already warming up for a festival that has become the Spanish savior of the Eurovision Song Contest and to which RTVE wants to give its own entity, which is much more than the festival where the Spanish Eurovision representative comes from .
For this reason, from the Mirador de la Música in the Valencian town, RTVE has again made a display to issue the signature of a new reissue of the Benidorm Fest and the Public Corporation and little else, since not many news have been revealed other than the dates that will be the two semifinals -January 30 and February 1- and the grand final -February 3-, as well as an experimental song camp to give value to composers. Luckily Massiel sponsored the event.
If something has always characterized Massiel, it is that no one shuts her up. So taking advantage of his presence in an act like the Benidorm Fest, with the president of RTVE, Elena Sánchez, present together with the mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez, and the new president of the Valencian Generalitat, Carlos Mazón, Massiel has completely left of the script and has sent a message to Alberto Núñez Feijóo, Pedro Sánchez and politics in general before the astonished gaze of María Eizaguirre and those present at the event.
“You have to make good pacts, right president?” he snapped at Carlos Mazón, the recently inaugurated president of the Valencian Community thanks to the support of the 13 Vox deputies. Massiel stoked without prior notice and without anyone from RTVE or the institutions being prepared. But he was not going to stay there, far from it.
Massiel wanted to talk, so much so that even Eizaguirre has tried on several occasions to cut off his answers that not only were they escaping from the line of the Festival presentation, but they were also lengthening the act.
RTVE’s decision to have Massiel as the godmother of this edition of the Benidorm Fest is none other than the 55th anniversary of the artist’s victory in Eurovision. The Leganitos tank started already warning of what could come: “La La La is an iconic hymn of joy that represented music. Every time we hear it, we can proudly say that in Spain there are very good authors, so Long live Spain, cunt!” Massiel was not going to disappoint.
Eizaguirre, who was trying to conduct the brief interview, then asked her how her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest was and how she was chosen. Massiel, once again, was going to show that if they ask her, she answers the truth, whatever she supposes. So the artist brought out Serrat, brought out the Catalan controversy, which is why in the end it was not him who represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest and brought out that it was she and nothing more than she who paid for the iconic dress with the one who sang that historic night in 1968 at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
While the RTVE Communications Director tried to lighten Massiel’s response, it went back to when she was in Cuba singing until she got to the call she received while in Guadalajara, Jalisco, where she had been hired to do private performances. The musical director of RTVE at the time called her and told her that she had to come to Spain because she had to go to London to represent Spain in Eurovision. So she got on a flight “that a grandson of Pancho Villa was piloting”, she arrived in Spain and they gave her the song, which she thought was “very easy”.
“I thought that if the song was good for Serrat it was good for me. And I said, ‘here we go’. They put me on a plane and to Spain with what I was wearing. El La La La was a very easy song, with 4 chords. But I, who always performed in a long black suit because it covered me so they wouldn’t want to touch me, when I heard the song I said ‘you have to wrap this song'”, the artist recounted before María Eizaguirre could very delicately pass. to another question and move on.
Later, Massiel insisted that she was not nervous because she was “very prepared” and “very confident”: “You have to arrive very prepared, with your homework done. When everything is done, you let your imagination fly and the genius runs away, but Before that, you have to train.”
The Spanish representative for Junior Eurovision 2024, Sandra Valero, brought him a cake and managed to contain the Leganitos tank for a few moments. But they were brief. So after addressing Mazón, ironically reproaching him for his investiture agreement with Vox, the Leganitos tank stood up and went directly to Feijóo and Sánchez: “Here the party with the most votes has been the PP, so what! Feijóo call Sánchez and they agree for once! They did this in Germany and it went very well, so why do they have to go looking for other things”.
And aware that he had taken his feet out of the pot, Massiel addressed the RTVE team: “Then cut this if you want.” “No, not if it is being broadcast live. Don’t worry,” Eizaguirre snapped. “You know that I always talk about politics.”
RTVE tried to change the third by taking Blanca Paloma on stage, the winner of the last edition of the Benidorm Fest and the Spanish representative of Eurovision 2023. And although Massiel was no longer going to talk about politics or throw any more darts at any representative Politically, she continued to be the absolute protagonist, finishing off her sponsorship, singing in front of Blanca Paloma the chords of Amanecer, the song with which Edurne went to the Eurovision Song Contest, and not Blanca Paloma’s Eaea.
Massiel put the spark of a presentation that if it hadn’t been for her would have ended in a signature and three institutional speeches.
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