Liverpool (United Kingdom) (EFE) his vocal and dramatic control in the song “EaEa”.
“It has been a very powerful performance. She is one of the great vocalists of this edition and that will provide her with many votes from the jury, it is a fact, in addition to the fact that the staging is very well planned, with especially beautiful and moving moments such as those of the moon in her hand ”, chronicler Sashko Krapivkin, from Razom for Ukraine, has highlighted for EFE.
Changes in acting
In addition to the changes in the lighting, which is more impressive, the production has shown slight modifications in the camera shots, “more focused on it, which makes it the most intimate performance and takes advantage of the negative spaces”, according to the opinion of Rory Gannon, from the That Eurovision Site website.
“It’s my favorite. I adore this song and I think she sings in a very beautiful way”, this British chronicler added in response to his desire that the song conclude within the top ten or even in the top quintet, but noting that ” Anything can happen, because the risks sometimes do not take effect”.
Asked about the danger of the public not understanding the flamenco base and coming to consider it repetitive or annoying, Gannon has shown himself to be sure that “we are no longer in the moment of Remedios Amaya and ‘Quién maneja mi barca’”.
“Respect for cultural diversity has grown in the last 20 years. Authenticity is now valued much more and the fact that she is a co-writer of the song plays an important role in this, because it connects a lot with what it tells ”, she considered.
Nor has the Swedish Ben Robertson, from ESC Insight, spared good words, for whom she is a “vocally perfect artist who makes listening to her live an incredible, hypnotic experience, even more than on television”, although in that sense He considers that “some nice changes” have been made to the production to enhance it.
He has not been so positive about another of the most significant changes in his proposal for next Saturday’s final compared to the performance with which he won the victory at Benidorm Fest last February.
Criticisms for and against Blanca Paloma
“I think he is wrong to sing the studio version, with that more melismatic ending, because although it is more complex from the point of view of vocal technique, it is less effective than sustaining the note. I don’t think I get more votes from the jury because of it, but for the public it’s like when they see a professional diver capable of doing three and a half turns in the air, but they only see how they enter the water”, he reflected.
For Robertson, “Spain can be in the top 10 or in 21st place, because the line between one thing and another is very fine in the face of a high-risk proposal like this.” “In any case, it seems to me that the country is on the right path to win Eurovision and that you have to be very proud of performances like this,” she insisted.
“Overwhelming. She arrived, sang and devastated. Impeccable essay. How much security ”, José García, from the veteran website Eurovision-Spain, organizer of the Madrid pre-party that annually brings together many of the stars of each edition weeks before its celebration, has stressed from the side of the national press.
For Javier Escartín, editor of “Huffington Post”, it has also managed to save one of the moments that made it necessary to modify the transfer of the staging from Benidorm to Liverpool: the substitution of the zenithal plane on the moon for a diagonal one in which part of the fringed structure that accompanies it sneaks in. “The full shot is much better because you end up seeing Blanca Paloma inside the fringed curtain,” he considered.