Sorority in Benidorm Fest: a tit to unite them all
Rigoberta Bandini y Tanxugueiras han hecho justo lo contrario de lo que se espera de una competición. No se han saltado las normas del Benidorm Fest, pero sí esas leyes no escritas que ponen a las mujeres a competir como si no tuvieran otra manera de estar en el mundo. Las dos candidaturas favoritas a Eurovisión llevan semanas formando parte de la conversación —incluida la política— por sus subidas y bajadas en las encuestas, por sus letras, por su género, por su edad y por una teta. Lejos de contribuir a la rivalidad, la artista catalana y el trío gallego han mostrado su simpatía en redes y en persona. “Nos da rabia este enfrentamiento entre fans, este odio; entre nosotras no es así”, dice Paula Ribó, el verdadero nombre de Bandini, al otro lado del teléfono. “Pedimos calma”, continúa Sabela Maneiro, una de las componentes de Tanxugueiras, “nos llevamos bien y, aunque no fuera así, no creemos en esta competitividad insana”.
In each of the performances of the semifinals that led them to the end of this Saturday, they represented that message of companionship.Bandini and his group (includes his partner and his cousin) opted for white.All were uniformed.She dressed as a bride, evening, an outfit from which the letter of Ay, mom in which she repeats up to 25 times the word breast, an praise to motherhood, in particular, and women, and women, and women, and women, and women, and women, and women.In general, according to their own explanations.It was at the time that a large teta projected on the floor appeared - as he had announced - when he stayed alone with a meat color body.His stage companions did not go much further.The shirts were built and taught sports fasteners.The breasts, for now, only in virtual version.We will have to wait for the final to know if they appear in its carnal version.
This attitude has an effect that may seem contradictory because it ends up joining critics and supporters: they call it at the same time provocative, transgressive and puritan.In some performance he has taught them.Bandini does not stop asking since then, as he does in his song, why this part of the body of women is so afraid and clarifies that without them "there would be no humanity or so much beauty".
In the performance of Tanxugueiras, the only tits that were seen were those of two dancers and the percussionist.Male breasts that always draw censorship although they are also tits.The Galicians opted for black.What was revealed in both cases was the idea of sorority.Bandini had already advanced it, wanted this message to cross the screen, so he opted for a group of women and two men who grabbed their arms and danced in a circle in a support and communion ritual.In that space their companions of Galicia fit, but also Chanel and Sara Deop, the aesthetic antithesis regarding their representation of femininity and content of their letters.
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It is not the first time that these artists have the feeling that they put them to compete."The trend is to rival women since childhood," says Bandini.“They tell us that we are our worst enemies, that we are twisted, bad...And in the end you believe it ".Maneiro agrees: “Society is thus formed and it is something we have to change.How are we going to be rivals of a woman who has her ideas so clear, with that feminist and sorority message? ".In this moment of political polarization, it has not contributed to the artistic debate that ministers such as Raquel Sánchez, head of Transportation, has positioned the Bandini side;While the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, has shown her sympathy for Galician formation, appealing to her roots in Ferrol.
They try to change it with a vital and daily positioning that they convey in their songs.Rigoberta Bandini does so from pop that constitutes that new indie paradigm in which rap, electronics, irony and feminism are mixed."I compose from freedom, I write what comes out of inside regardless of what they will think about," explains the Catalan artist.As she summarizes, she does what she wants.
This message has become an emblem of a part of the feminist movement.Many women use their Instagram accounts to collect images of their breastfeeding periods with the soundtrack.Although, at the same time, if the topic in Instagram Stories (the ephemeral videos of the platform) is used the word teta appears censored.It usually happens when a woman shows her, does not happen with those of men, who, by the way, also have."I do not do this to win votes, the project already worked before without having to go here," says the artist in reference to her Eurovisive candidacy.He already sang to the dogs, not only to the animals, in which it was one of the most popular songs of confinement (more than 1.7 million reproductions on YouTube).
Threats of censorship and criticisms have multiplied as much as the voices of those who try to rival the candidacies of the Catalan artist and the Galician formation.That is why Tanxugueiras, the Tanxu, as Bandini calls them, shared a tinge tambourine tweet when his partner announced that he would fill the Benidorm Fest stage with a giant chest."We are Pandereteiras and we have tits.We are with you.This is the message we wanted to launch ”, Zanja Maneiro when asked about the subject.A tweet that Ribó received, confesses, very excitedly."If we were a man and a woman they would not put us to compete like this, nor if we were two men, in fact it does not happen with our classmates," the singer ends.
Tanxugueiras selects in its Galician roots and translates the ancestral art of the shing.“In all the songs we do we talk about what women feel.Men can empathize, but we know what we are talking about, ”says Maneiro."In our letters we want to claim that there is an empowerment but not because yes, but because we have the need to do so for the mere fact of being women".That is Terra, his candidate song in Benidorm Fest: "Galician root music made by women" that honors those who came before.In his song they say in Gallego: "You sing, I will sing / with the art of our mothers / we will celebrate life".And always next to his Compaiñeiriñas.
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