Are you ready to meet the new Spanish sensations? RTVE is unveiling all 16 entries participating at Benidorm Fest 2024, and you’re definitely in for a treat!
During a 90-minute show broadcast on RTVE Play, all 16 entries from Benidorm Fest 2024 will be released one by one. You can follow the show here.
Benidorm Fest 2024: The participants
Click on the song titles to listen to the songs. The music videos in the “Meet the artists” section are not the songs they’ll be performing. Most of the Benidorm Fest music videos will be released in the next few weeks. Three of them are being released at midnight: Almácor, María Peláe and Nebulossa.
- Almácor – “Brillos platino” (Platinum Glitter)
- Angy – “Sé quién soy” (I Know Who I Am)
- Dellacruz – “Beso en la mañana” (Kiss in the Morning)
- Jorge González – “Caliente” (Hot)
- Lérica – “Astronauta” (Astronaut)
- Mantra – “Me vas a ver” (You’re Going to See Me)
- María Peláe – “Remitente” (Sender)
- Marlena – “Amor de verano” (Summer Love)
- Miss Caffeina – “Bla Bla Bla“
- Nebulossa – “Zorra” (Bitch)
- Noan – “Te echo de –” (I Miss You)
- Quique Niza – “Prisionero” (Prisoner)
- Roger Padrós – “El Temps” (Time)
- Sofia Coll – “Here To Stay“
- st. Pedro – “Dos extraños” (Two Strangers)
- Yoly Saa – “No se me olvida” (I don’t forget)
Benidorm Fest 2024: Meet the artists
Almácor
Almácor is a young urban artist from Villena, Alicante, who is set to make a major breakthrough at Benidorm Fest. He blends rap, reggaeton, pop and electronic music.
He’s released more than 10 singles over the past four years and is yet to release an album, although he put out an EP early in the summer. More than 26,000 listeners enjoy his music on Spotify and a couple of his songs have over a million streams.
Almácor started his music career four years ago, while he was working as a barman and street seller. He’s set a goal of recording a song with Argentinian producer Bizarrap, a major name in the Latin industry. Yes, he who produced Shakira’s song about her break up with Gerard Piqué.
Angy
Angy Fernández is someone everybody knows in Spain. Her music career began on X Factor in 2007, and later she starred in teen drama “Física o Química”. You could say she was the image of the “emo” aesthetic back in the day.
Whilst her music career hasn’t been especially flamboyant, she’s remained a popular name in the country. And on social media. One of her tweets in 2015 became a meme. Weeks after the release of her album, she wrote: “I published an album days ago… don’t you like it?”.
Angy took a break from releasing music after that album, but has put out a couple of singles in the last year. She still got over 67,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and every single millennial in the country can sing her song “Sola en el silencio”.
Dellacruz
Dellacruz is the stage name of Jorge de la Cruz, a singer-songwriter from the Canary Islands who’s been around for four years.
More than ten singles after his first release, Dellacruz arrives in Benidorm with over 78,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. His style is clearly influenced by Latin and urban music.
Jorge González
Third time lucky? Well, that’s certainly Jorge González’s intention in Benidorm Fest 2024. He’s tried to enter Eurovision for Spain previously in 2009 and 2014. One song per decade, his latest try comes after having appeared on the TV show “Gypsy Kings”.
Jorge has always been in the Eurovision orbit, and his relationship with fans has been troubled at times, similar to what happened with Agoney last year. But hey: didn’t he win the semi-final and come second overall?
Besides Eurovision, Jorge is no stranger to Spanish television. He has taken part in Operación Triunfo, although it wasn’t related to ESC back when he competed, and The Voice. He’s been releasing music for over a decade, and now has around 16K monthly listeners, with some songs counting hundreds of thousand streams.
Lérica
The last time Spain sent a duo to Eurovision, Amaia and Alfred came 23rd in the final. Lérica wants to reverse that and rise to the top of the scoreboard. They are one of Spain’s most popular duos. In fact, they have amassed more monthly listeners than any other music duo in the country with over 1.2 million on Spotify alone.
Their style is a melting pot of melodies ranging from flamenco to pop, rock and Latin styles, and it’s always very breezy and summery.
Lérica have joined forces multiple times with top artists from Spain and Latin America, including Belinda, Gente de Zona and Cali y el Dandee. And here’s a curious fact: Remember Chanel’s single “Clavaíto” with Abraham Mateo, a perennial fan favourite for Benidorm Fest? Well, one half of Lérica, Tony, is Abraham’s brother.
Mantra
You may not have heard of Mantra, but you definitely know the work of one of its members. The group consists of Charly Weinberg, Paula Pérez and Carlos Marco. Carlos was on Xeinn’s team in Benidorm Fest 2022, and Aritz’s “Flamenco” last year.
And besides “Eco”, Carlos was part of Auryn, the boy band which came second in Spain’s Eurovision selection and 2011 and went on to become one of the most popular bands in the country during the early 2010s.
Mantra has over 120,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and a couple of albums. Their last one, Epicentro, dropped in June and some of their songs have over a million listens on the platform. The group is all about pop in Spanish and despite their catalog being quite eclectic, it leans a lot on guitars and pop-folkish rhythms. However, they’ve also done reggaeton.
María Peláe
33 years old María Pelae from Málaga is one of Spain’s most cherished artists. Mixing flamenco with contemporary accents, she’s been around for almost ten years now. She recently released her fourth album ‘Al Baño María’ (explainer). She counts over 300,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.
María is no stranger to television and Eurovision: she was one of the songwriters behind “Arde” — Aitana’s entry in the OT Gala Eurovisión 2018. As a performer, María finished third in Your Face Sounds Familiar, where she embodied Barbara Pravi and Pastora Soler.
An outspoken LGTBI icon, María is known for her lyrics, which have always depicted love and affection between two women. While that is, luckily, more common in 2023, it wasn’t always the case when she started her career. In fact, one of her best known songs is “La niña”, in which she interprets a mother who discovers her daughter is lesbian and ends joining her in a lesbian bar.
Marlena
Marlena consists of Ana Legazpi and Carolina Moyano, a duo from Madrid who got their name from the lyrics of Maneskin’s “Torna a Casa”. They decided to adopt the name when they learnt Marlena is the depiction of an empowered woman.
Their unique vocals and take on pop music have won them popularity on the Spanish indie scene. After touring Spain during the summer from one festival to another, they are now ready to take the stage in Benidorm.
With over 1.2 million monthly listeners on Spotify, Marlena count millions of streams on many songs, and one of them, “Me Sabe Mal” has over 37 million listens. They have been putting out singles since 2019 and have recently released their first album “1,000 Primeras Veces”.
Miss Caffeína
Miss Caffeína have been among Spain’s top alternative bands for over a decade now. Singing mainly in Spanish but having embraced Catalan for one of their best-known tracks “Merlí”, the band sit at the top of the banner at most music festivals. They have over 440,000 listeners on Spotify.
With five albums under the belt, along with many years of touring Spain during the summer, the band finally take the step to perform at Benidorm Fest. They are no strangers to the contest either, as their lead singer Alberto Jiménez penned what was supposed to be Agoney’s song for Eurovision 2018. Sadly, last year’s Benidorm Fest runner-up didn’t get to the OT finale, and “Señales” was later released as a single.
Miss Caffeína has been among the top favourites for Spanish Eurovision fans for years. However, they’ve always been reluctant to take up the challenge. Now it’s finally their time to compete.
Nebulossa
Remember the name: Nebulossa is one of the freshest names on the list. They do electronic pop, heavily inspired by 80s music and with quite explicit lyrics.
They play at home in Benidorm Fest: they come from la Marina, the area in the Region of Valencia where Benidorm sits. Mark Dasousa, the producer behind the group, is a well known producer of one of the region’s best known bands.
The closest thing in Benidorm Fest history to Nebulossa would be Varry Brava. Despite being quite unknown, with fewer than 2,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, Nebulossa has already released an album and several singles.
Noan
25-year-old Noan is from the Basque Country but now lives in Asturias. He’s mostly known for his pop-rock in Spanish and his raspy voice. Several of his songs count over three million listens and he has over 430,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.
Noan is yet to release an album, but he’s put out over ten singles ever since he started releasing music in 2020.
He’s no stranger to collaborations either, including one of his most listened-to tunes, “Odio que te quiero” with Paula Koops. And while he had no Eurovision connections until recently, he just released a version of “Nunca volverás” by Spain’s 2013 act ESDM.
Quique Niza
Remember when we first learned about Chanel? She had released no songs, but had a ton of experience in musical theatre. That’s exactly the case for Quique Niza.
He’s the youngest competitor in Benidorm Fest, but at just 20 years of age, he already has more than five years of experience in musical theatre in Madrid, where he’s played Grease’s Danny Zuko among others.
Besides theatre, Quique has also acted in a couple of TV series, including UPA Next, which is about a group of young dancers.
Roger Padrós
Roger was discovered on The Voice Spain, where he reached the finale in the seventh edition. Coming from Barcelona, he’s also a pianist and has performed in many theatres around Catalonia.
With over 9,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, Roger has already released an album, “La Vida És Millor” in 2022. He usually sings in Catalan.
During his season of The Voice, which aired in 2020, Roger performed Muse’s “Feeling Good” and Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” among others.
Sofía Coll
Hailing from Barcelona, Sofía Coll is one of the newest names on this year’s Benidorm Fest list, and one of the few independent artists. While she’s not the most listened to of artists, with only 7,000 monthly listeners, her song “Tu mente y tu corazón” has over 700,000 streams.
Her music spans pop to R’n’B and she plays with reggaeton bases as well. She sings in Spanish, Catalan and English. She’s also a dancer and actress, and has collaborated with Benidorm Fest alum Rakky Ripper.
Sofía took part in TV3’s talent show “Eufòria”, one of the most popular programmes in the channel. Miki Núñez, he of La Venda, is the host of the show. There, Sofía performed Rosa Linn’s “Snap” and Rigoberta Bandini’s “Perra”.
st. Pedro
st. Pedro was on The Voice of Spain in 2017, but his path led him to Miami. Originally from the Canary Islands, st. Pedro usually does Latin flavoured music, including bachatas.
He has over 37,000 monthly listeners and several of his songs have over one million streams. He has released an album, but curiously, it is a Christmas themed CD.
Pedro Hernández, his real name, has been releasing music since 2018, and most of it has been alone. He doesn’t seem to have any connection to Eurovision… until now.
Yoly Saa
Yoly Saa comes from Galicia and is a singer-songwriter who has penned songs for some of Spain’s brightest stars such as Malú and Luz Casal.
On her own, Yoly has started releasing music and last year took part in RTVE’s “Dúos Increíbles”, a program where newcomers do covers in a duet with established musicians. She performed with Sole Giménez, a huge name of Spain’s music scene during the 90s and early 00s.
Yoly released her first album “A Golpes de Fe” last year and has toured around Spain and Mexico. She has a song with Funambulista, who wrote this year’s Spanish entry for Junior Eurovision “Loviu”. She has over 77,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.
Who should win Benidorm Fest? Who did you like the most? Let us know in the comment section below!
My top 3
1. Yoly saa
2. Maria
3. St.Pedro
Wow my top 3!
1: Jorge González – Caliente
2: Mantra – Me Vas A Ver
3: María Peláe – Remitente
As an avid defender of most of the songs the fandom deems “boring”, I just simply can’t see St. Pedro not bombing the televote if y’all end up picking him. Blanca had PERFECT staging and her song wasn’t even true flamenco and it flopped HARD.Granted Europe does love a cute boy so maybe 15-20 televote points is more doable this time around lol. Are Caliente and Here To Stay safer options and more akin to what you’d expect in Eurovision? Yes. But you can listen to them and IMMEDIATELY visualize all the staging potential. For the people who prefer ethnic… Read more »
I maybe mistaken, but the only thing I can foresee with Here to stay is a big eurofan favourite which would end up flopping in ESC (Adrenalina or Sara Aalto’s style).
I am totally “fliping”. This song IS pretty basic. The kind of song that now is “Queen, Slay, she serves pussy” but whenever 3 or 4 other Queens, slayers and pussy servers release their songs It Will be completely forgotten. The first part the melody when she says whatever Everest and iceberg IS so tacky and kind of childish. And then why the part in English if the title IS Here to Stay? we all know what the song IS about, empowerment and stuff we have Heard a million times at Esc?.I really dont get this song or the reactions… Read more »
Totally agree.I find it so basic, predictable and forgettable! Unless her perfomance and the staging brings the song up veeeery much, I really do not see it in the left side of the table at ESC.
I was expecting much worse, after reading several comments. This isn’t as good as Melodifestivalen though. Quite bad overall, but atleast there’s something.
Not a bad selection, but I see only two choices that could do well in Eurovision and they are • st. Pedro – Dos Extraños • Sofia Coll – Here To Stay st. Pedro’s song would definitely stand out in a good way among all the other entries in the Grand Final and Sofia’s song is a major Eurovision vibe song. They both might have disadvantages though. Europe might not understand st. Pedro’s song and find it a bit boring and also see Sofia Coll’s entry as too calculated and tacky. But they’re the strongest songs in the selection in… Read more »
Embarrassing Why Is The Only Good Song Written By A Sw*de
I’ve got Angy as my #1 here, and I definitely get the feeling. It was deflating to see the credits!
It’s only an eurofan thing, the general public in May won’t totally care about who is behind the songs.
So in a selection full of pretty decent songs, of course the eurofans have gone crazy for the basic girl bop with every single eurovision cliche under the sun in it. It literally sounds like it’s come straight off the set of rupauls drag race and that is not a compliment. It just screams “I wrote this for Eurovision” and doesn’t seem to have any authenticity.
I really hope Spain are smart and pick something else. They have some good stuff there. They don’t need a cliche yaas kweeny eurovision by numbers song to do well.
I absolutely agree with you, dear Pineaple
I have just watched the video reaction to Here to Stay and why are the reactions always so Eurovision-y?. Why is It always “she IS a Queen and IS here to slay”?. Not only here but most reactions always say the same kind of stuff. I wonder how many “summer vibes”, “slayers”,”Queens” and “Goddesses” are we going to have this year.
Man I’m actually really happy with this bunch! I know at the end of the day one of these songs goes to Eurovision, but at the moment I don’t really care about how competitive they are. Miss Caffeina, Marlena and Nebbulosa are favourites of mine, but having said that, I wouldn’t mind seeing Almacor or Dellacruz, as much as I don’t really listen to their genres (ofc let’s wait for the live performances). Also, quite surprised with st. Pedro, wouldn’t mind that either! On a more negative note, Sofia Coll and Angy are not doing it for me atm, but… Read more »
Well done, Spain! I like most of the songs.
It’s a shame about that “for those of you who don’t speak Spanish” part of the Sofia Coll song. It’s so cheesy, it almost ruins it.
I agree, I don’t like when a song is focusing on “I’m a song for Eurovision”.
Well that kind of thing worked for Noa K*rel last year
I guess it was written FOR the fandom…
It’s the aim I guess, this song screams fandom pleaser
Absolutely!
EVERYBODY WHO DIDN’T FIGURE IT OUT YET! IT’S st. Pedro, NOT ST. PEDRO.
st PEDRO, there’s some explaining to do there, por favor, it’s not a saint, it’s not a street.
If It is not Saint what does st mean then? Stud?
I don’t know, but I hope it something in the realm of creative and interesting.
Well there are not many logical options with “st.”. I think Saint Pedro sounds nice. Not about the Saint but the place, as in Madonna’s ‘last night i dreamt of San Pedro”.
LOL! It IS “Saint”! I watched the song introduction, she called him “Saint Pedro”!
The st is for saint…in spanish he is called San Pedro…
I can see Jorge Gonzalez caliente winning because there’s a SloMo vibe to it where you can see it being more of a performance song where you see where the dance beats come in and you know he’s gonna be able to sing live, hit that big note at the end and elevate a basic song. And then the international members of the benidorm jury will eat it up cause it’ll have a Ricky Martin vibe and for them they just assume Ricky and Spain are the same thing. And everyone knows what caliente means. And there you have it.… Read more »
Actually you have a point.
Also, a male Chanel-type performance is quite refreshing for Eurovision – i cant think of a single good male singer with that kind of dance especially for Spain.
We already had Israel 2022 and Romania 2022, it was in the same vein I think but maybe less energetic.
The “problem” about the song are the lyrics, they are a cliché within a cliché within a cliché. I dont think many Spaniards, public or jury, Will vote for this.
I think they composed the song using only words that non Spanish speakers might recognize. They only missed “una cerveza por favor”.
You are right too, my first thought as a Spaniard was: “ufff… here comes the topic!”. But I know Jorge is an impressive performant, so I’m sure he is going to elevate the song a lot. So, not my favourite song, but I am up for giving him a chance.
That goes without saying. I might not like the song but I would never criticize the singer.
Well they’re better than that cheese Sofia song that’s making the rounds with the fandom. This guy has more Spanish flavour in his little finger than that woman does!
No, Sofia is not an option either. Here to stay is a song for the eurofandom, and that’s it.
Hasta ahora mis favoritas:
Los dos ultimos son Sofia Coll y Jorge Gonzalez.
Saludos desde Alemania
Didn’t really like any of the songs :/ Maybe live performances will lift them up
Spaniard here. I hardly see variety in this edition compared to 2022 and 2023, maybe some will grow on me with time but I am not optimistic for now,
Spaniard here. I just finished listening to the songs. As always, it is important to say that, as we all know, Eurovision is more than the song, then you also have the live performance and the staging. And I would not have taken to Eurovision my favourite song last year, as an example, due to poor vocals and staying. Or I didn’t like SloMo as a song, but the performance was out of this world, so it was actually the best option for ESC. Having said that, I have two favourite songs this year, totally different from each other: Dos… Read more »
Chanel is reggaeton also !
No, SloMo is not reggeaton. It is latin music. But not all latin music is reggeaton.
All latin music has been absorbed and soiled by reggaeton and trap.
But all reggaton IS Latin.
So what?
Not at all…even in Kpop are regaton sounds
No it’s reggaeton sorry.
No, it’s not. And I’ll tell you something more: from 5 years to now, Spanish spotify, youtube and alike tops are full of songs on the lines of Brillos Platinos. None on the line of SloMo.
After listening to each song twice (to remain as fair as possible without artist denial), I can say that the Spanish selection is VERY far from being bad but does not cling to me like last year. However, we have to wait to see the lives to decide because we all know, it will change everything! Like Blanca last year where the studio version did not inspire me (nor Vicco or Karmento actually) and finally live it was fantastic! But I really had six favorites in a provisional order here: 1. St Pedro: a particular universe that at the first… Read more »
I was able to predict that Vicco would do well and go on to get a viral hit last year. She has a great voice and the song is even stronger! It was hit material from the beginning!
Same here personally.
I listened to St.Pedro’s song and hands down! It’s beautiful.
I imagine watching a latin soap opera filmed in Miami by Telemundo (a US channel for Latin community) with colombian producers and full of latin actors and actress.
Even more that bolero – that kind of music – was recognized few days ago like Intagible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.
I don’t like boleros at all, but it got me in tears because it reminded me to Armando Manzanero, an amazing mexican bolero singer that I love so much.
The rest, so generic!
Ok after hearing all the songs several times now, I’ve the feeling that Sofia could do very very well on the Eurovision stage. This song will be loved by the eurofans for sure, I can already see the reactions, slay girl, queen, etc, the eurofans love that, it’s totally epic, it’s danceable, there’s a big beat, it’s women empowering, it’s everything the eurofans expect and wait, an europop banger as its best in the likes of Euphoria and Spirit in the sky, it’s totally Eurovision, more it’s impossible and it has already iconic parts like the pre chorus in english,… Read more »
Cinan and William will go crazy for it for sure 😉
Wow lol I said that without even knowing that William and Cinan would react together, am I a soothsayer lol, so yeah they loooooved it was sure. Personally I change a bit my mind after a lot of listens and a night’s sleep, I still love it, I love the mysterious beginning, the talking part but I find the chorus a bit repetitive and not as powerful as I felt at my first listen. Anyway cause majority of people would hear it for the first time if she goes in Eurovision. So Maria remains my Benfest winner but Sofia is… Read more »
Sorry, I don´t like it all. Together with “Caliente” even the worst for me in this selection.
I definitely prefer another ones….
Fair
AND THEN IT FLOPS AT EUROVISION!
Why? As I said it could be the new Spirit in the sky and win the televote why not?
st. Pedro is an obvious choice for me. The rest of Europe would be missing if not choosing him. Most of the other songs are quite generic.
Dos extraños is a very beautiful song and I would be so happy to see it in the grand final, but focusing on the competition, I’m afraid it would finish with the same poor televote result as Eaea did last year. Eurovision public is still not ready.
You can´t it compare to Eaea – that´s on another level, almost the same just like Amar pelos dois.
I love to see that now Salvador Sobral suddenly is becoming the new absolute reference for the spanish fandom, funny and a bit opportunistic imo.
But Salvador deserved it before, since he won brillantly 6 years ago and not only now.
I´m not a Spaniard although I can speak Spanish.
Not saying this for you especially but overall in all the things I read and not only here but everywhere.
People keep on comparing with Salvador Sobral. I would rather say it is something like Salvador Sobral meets Marco Mengoni and then we add latin flavour to it. Meaning, something we have actually not seen in ESC before.
It doesnt stand out enough to me. If you want a slow ballad, go Roger or Quique.
As a whole it’s not a bad selection and feels like it’ll make for a fun 3 shows. But many of these songs are soooo processed. These voices will not sound anything like this live. I’m sure it might even be more startling that last year’s show when the live performances paled in comparison to the track.
Love this year´s selection, best year out of 3 editions of Benidorm Fest. My bet is St. Pedro. Other strong contenders are María Peláe, Angy, Nebulossa and Miss Caffeina.
As an Spaniard I’ve got some mixed feeling. Like last year I believe there’s a strong middle class with just a, few or even none bad songs, but almost not a single high level song that is able to stand out in music contest like Eurovision. Most of these songs will be able to hit the radio charts but, apart from being catchy and easy to listen, they have nothing special or unique (even some of them could asily sound the same to foreign ears). It is important nowadays for a song to be radiofriendly but we all know “Nochentera”… Read more »
I think the crowd at Eurovision would have gone NUTS for Nochentera – it would have probably tanked a little with juries but done better with the televote – it’s main competition would have been Cha Cha Cha, which has the same ‘everyone sing this chant’ vibe that made Nochentera successful. BUT Vicco would have polished her vocals and so everyone would have underestimated her. One thing’s for sure, it would have been a GLOBAL hit!
Spanish fans are about to get a lesson of being humble and not bullying artists they don’t like. None of them can be top 5.
None of THEM (them being the artists) can be top 5… But then the Spanish fans are the ones bullying artists they dont like?? Weird comment.
after listening all of them.. all can I say , Spain 20-26 in esc
After the first listening my faves are Marlena and Yoly Saa. Can’t wait to hear all of them performing live though.
Wanna play safe choose BRILLOS PLATINO
Wanna take a risk again choose DOS EXTRAÑOS
I love both options.
Despite what we all might say about songs not in English, truth IS that we appreciate more songs in English than in any other languages. To have a chance of doing well at Esc a song not in English needs to be really “noisy” (not in a pejorative sense) with a very strong Melody which might make people forget about the language or It has to be unique without being too “bizarre” for Europeans’ ears. I dont think there IS any “too noisy” song in this selection and the only unique song here IS St Pedro’s Dos Extraños. People might… Read more »
Is that the best Spain can do? Meh
Surprisingly a few uptempo, almost EDM entries.
‘El Temps’ as beautiful as it is, reminds me strongly of a well known song. I just can’t put my finger on which one.
My choice so far is ‘Caliente’. It makes me want to dance.
Let’s see what live performances can do to these songs. 🙂
There’s a kind of pattern when it comes to Benidorm Fest as the Benifest winner is never one of the pre contest favourites but always a dark horse. I mean in 2022 it was all the way Rigoberta vs Tanxugueiras but Chanel won, in 2023 it was Fusa Nocta vs Megara vs Vicco vs Agoney but Blanca won. I can see this year that it’s already Sofia vs St Pedro vs Angy so who will be the dark horse winner this time…suspense
Jorge González sounds like the type of artist Spanish people would vote for.
Good pick I would have said Maria or Almacor maybe.
I would actually say that Maria and Almacor are kind of the two big contendants for the Spanish audience right now. So they cannot be dark horses.
Yes, I would add the list maybe with Nebulossa, Noan and Miss Caffeina. St. Pedro is beautiful but I´m not sure if this fits for the ESC stage.
I don´t like Sofia Coll and Jorge Gonzalez
Not at all. He sounds too ‘what Europe expects from us” which for US translates into “cliché, Ricky Martin-ish, fuego caliente, sex on the beach”. For US It does not sound a natural latín hit but the kind of song, Europeans might appreciate but we dont listen to since the 90s.
Totally, he sounds like a song in any other European preselection trying to sound Spanish or latin. I am telling you now, a Spanish person would never go for that. Similar to last year’s Flamenco.
Isn’t that what Spaniards said about Chanel when they harassed her because they wanted Tanxugeiras to win?
Not really. People harassing Chanel never said anything about SloMo being what Europe expects from us. Their attacks were more personal or weird (SloMo encouraging prostitution).
I can tell you that the rest of Europe wont care if the Spanyards send a song that appropriates their culture. If it’s latin or ‘fiery’ with dance moves involved in anyway, the televote will eat that up.
Sofia Coll…
The type of artist Spanish people listen to right now, in 2023, is actually Almacor.
Yes, it´s very modern and I like this vibes ( I also can understand Spanish)
It´s full of clichees, meh… After “I will burn” from Agoney now “hot”…
Nebulossa
True Zorra is nice
No one expected Vicco to be a streaming hit in Spain ! She was the real winner!
Arf she was my pick for Spain last year but as always my winner never wins, it’s my fate lol.
Finished listening to all of them and listened even a second time those which caught my attention. And, without seeing their live performances, my winner is St Pedro. So far, I see a lot of potential here. It’s unique, intimate, moving and captivating, a Bolero genre everybody knows and could be very impactful to both juries and audience if well performed and they create the appropriate climax. I’m maybe going too far so early, but if perfectly performed and delivered i even see here a potential top five. Let’s see how it goes!
I really enjoy Marlena! Gives me the Vicco vibes. I feel this song will be the biggest hit out of all these, but will it win? I don’t know. I hope so! I also really liked Angy and Sofia!! Fingers crossed one of them wins!
Got Vicco vibes from Nebulossa too!
Marlena’s song has the same producers team that Vicco had with Nochentera actually
REALLY?! Their song is MY FAVOURITE on this ranking app I have! What a coincidence?! It DOES sound like hit material…and then you think and remember they had the HIGHEST stream numbers for a song they previously had!
María Peláe is my clear favorite here. I also liked Ángy Fernández featuring Tommy G:sson and Dotter’s man haha. Finally, st. Pedro was also quite pleasant. I think it’s an okay selection and María should be sent to Malmö. Sounds distinctively Spanish but much more accessible than last year’s choice.
Some interesting options here, first listen I would go with Maria definetely. Maria’s song reflects exactly the cultural side of Spain that I have in my mind, it’s maybe flamenco but it has nothing to do with Eaea that never but really never clicked with me, but this one yes instantly. Sofia’s song screams Eurovision by all sides, it has all the elements to please the eurofans and it’s exactly what the average viewers expect to hear in Eurovision, it has this Eurovision sound and style I can’t explain. This mix of spanish and english more the chorus in english… Read more »
Couldn’t even finish any of the songs. Just average, like AI generated.
Last again with the public vote
Quique Niza possesses undeniable winner potential, and with a different song, he could have truly shone. I eagerly anticipate witnessing his talent grace the Eurovision stage in the future. As for St. Pedro, he stands as my personal favorite, boasting a voice akin to a siren’s call. It’s time for him to captivate Europe and showcase the breathtaking beauty that this genre of music can offer
I actually really like his song. Give him good staging with laser beams of light and fire ressembling iron bars and then give it a revamp at the end – top 5 with juries and top 10 with public.
My first impression is that this is a good selection, with most of the songs being at least kinda fun or pleasant. My top 3 are probably (in the alphabetic order): Maria Pelae, Roger Padros, and St. Pedro. Those are the entries I can see really loving!
While I agree that overall it seems that the songs selected aren’t as diverse and impactful as previous editions, the ones that stood out the most to me were Angy and Maria Pelae (so far my top two because they have a unique sound at least), with St Pedro, Yoly Saw and Sofia Coll close behind. I liked sofia’s song but I don’t think the english was necessary and St. Pedro’s song sounds like one that Portugal would send (I mean this in a good way). Overall I hope that Angy would win because it would be something totally different… Read more »
Overall this selection is unimpactful and dated, BUT there IS a SWEDISH song, the Angy song. Why didn’t they pick a song by Spanish writers instead? What a shame.
One Swedish song is okay. Angy’s song was pretty good.
Angy Fernandez has the most impactful song on first listen, I already know it’s gonna be on my replay. I hope she wins.
Overall and compared to 2022 <3 and 2023 I personally find the current edition less impactful.
My faves:
MARLENA – “Amor de verano” – musically and not lyrically it’s my guilty pleasure of the season in the best sense of the word. *Mi tema ganadora del Benidorm Fest 2024*
Roger Padrós – “El temps” – I’d be happy with this one winning as well.
Quique Nize – “Prisionero”.
Those are three of my favourites too and I don’t understand why Roger and Quique is so far down in people’s lists – Quique is easily at the very bottom of the MyEurovisionWorld app and it’s sad because his song stands out the most to me – it’s a ballad but far more interesting with a modern beat and great melody in the chorus!
“Dos extraños“ could really be something magical on stage. Fingers crossed
That was really impressive for my senses ??
Kinda obsessed with Sé quién soy. That being said, I feel like in comparison to previous Benidorms this year’s is kinda mid.
Definitely not going to be arguably the strongest selection of this year.
Could be the strongest at this rate.
Estonia is pretty good and the lineup for Italy and Sweden would indicate a bloodpath….. plus at “this rate” this is the 4th national selection we’ve seen and I can’t remember when was the last time Malta and Czechia had a good selection (not talking about a selection with 1 decent song it it…).
If Malta chooses Matt Blxck they will be redeemed and Czechia have had a good NF for three years straight This year, however, Czechia had three good options and chose not one of them!
I like Quique Niza, Sofia Coll, Angy Fernández and Jorge González.
I have not yet listened to the songs but Eurofans still have the unfortunate tendency to criticize at first glance… Give your ears and your brain time to get used to the songs and you will see that at some point, some songs will be impactful to you. Also wait for the live shows, I think no one would have bet on Chanel or Blanca in studio version before seeing them shine live on stage. We also have to wait for the live shows, and maybe there will be some that will stand out unanimously! Lately, Eurofans want a high… Read more »
With Benidorm especially, it’s about the staging and live versions!
Exactly like Chanel, Megara, Blanca Paloma or also Karmento !
Lots of variety again; the people from Benidorm Fest really deserve kudos for that! Despite the abundance of different styles, there aren’t that many songs though that really grab me immediately. That being said: neither Chanel nor Blanca Paloma were my faves before Benidorm Fest happened and they really came to life in their performances, so let’s wait and see. I’m sure these will be three very entertaining shows! My top 3 for now: 1 St. Pedro: this sounds absolutely fantastic, great voice and full of emotion; 2 Yoly Saa: intriguing style, there’s something quite haunting about this; 3 Almácor:… Read more »