Eurovision has hurt and it has really hurt

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First of all:

, thank you.

Thank you for returning to

the emotion for

.

Thank you for the work, effort and endurance.

Thank you for that third place in

, which tastes like blessed glory.

Thank you, thank you, and thank you.

But it could not be.

During the voting, even during the performance of

, when you heard the shouts and applause of the audience present in

, even in the previous weeks of rehearsals, we began to believe that winning was possible.

When the first 12 points arrived, the second, the third, we began to touch the sky.

had already touched it long ago.

And then... Then, what has always been said about

, what has always been in the collective belief, happened again, but more disproportionate than ever:

did not win the best song or the best show, it won a decision that It has little to do with music, he won a political decision.

This is not a discovery, this is the reality that has always surrounded

.

Neighboring countries give points to neighboring countries;

the countries of the East, those of the East;

the countries that have agreements, bilateral relations more fluid than with others, to which they are united by culture, customs, etc.

they vote.

This has been the case since the beginning of the

times and, unfortunately, there is no sign that this will change.

Why has

won ?

Let's be honest, because the public and the expert jury, although to a lesser extent, wanted to show their support for the war that the country is suffering through

.

Their song was by no means the best, neither was their show, but they had something that no country had: the pain of a

and the pain.

Of course, giving the

Eurovision crystal microphone to

an

demonstration that Europe is with them, that what they are suffering hurts us, that we want them to know that we are with them, but

is not the place or , at least, it is not the place, as they sell it.

What do we do with Eurovision?

The Eurovision

is sold as the festival of the European song, of the celebration of the music of

, as a great television show that through music unites all the European peoples one night a year and makes visible the art of each participating country.

That's how they sell it to us, but it never was like that.

To see

you have to see it knowing that when it comes to winning, not only the quality of a song, an artist or a show influences, but there are external agents that can turn someone who in other circumstances would not have made it out of the top 10 into the big winner of the night.

And this, as much as the joy of the Ukrainians is contagious to all of us, it is an injustice, and it hurts.

Especially it hurts more when you are among those who could have won.

And

,

, could have won

this edition of

Not only because his show was well above the

itself , but for much more.

's performance

could be in the spectacle of a Super Bowl final;

she could be in a Grammy;

It could be the concert performance of one of the greats...

's performance

far surpassed the rest of the performances, in a

full of ballads, solo songs, slow, even boring at times.

will continue betting on

has given us

and the revolution it has brought about, but let's not fool ourselves anymore,

was not won last night by the best song, it was won by a country at war.

Hence, years ago

took the Chikilicuatre, so, now we are going to laugh.

Or hence, that the interest in

in

has always been far behind that of many of the other countries.

But on this occasion,

had managed to make all of us, not just those of us who are eurofans, aware of what

was going to do and whether we could be in the Top 5 at the end, whether Spain was going to have its new

or its new

.

Chanel has given us hope at Eurovision

In short,

gave us back the illusion for a festival for which it had been lost a long time ago after fair and other very unfair defeats.

In the end,

got a third place -blessed third place!- that without the

, without the pain for

, without that tradition of turning

into a geopolitical festival, could have been a first place.

It is true that

was there, also one of the best songs, but we must take into account that the more than 400 points that the public gave to

they should have been distributed among those who were at the top of the table after the vote of the expert jury.

Those 400 points, without a doubt, would have been shared between

,

and

.

We all know it.

And know?

Any of the three, if it had been the winner, would have been the fair winner, the winner of the music, of the show, of the show, of what is supposed to be

.

In 1966,

and his

one were one step away from victory.

A defeat that filled newspaper headlines pointing out the injustice and theft that had meant that the Spanish did not win.

They were circumstances, times and a different voting system, but the bittersweet sensation of that time, today it is inevitable not to feel it with

.

I know that a third place is so much more than we have achieved in decades and that it is sweet to savor, and it would stay that way if we had fallen behind

, or even

.

But that flavor is diluted when reality is the one that has stopped seeing

.

It is dreaming of the impossible because changing that Eurovision reality is like dreaming of castles in the air, but that does not fall into oblivion or that, at least, no matter how much show they want to sell us, no matter how much music they want to show us, no matter how much that they try not to notice political influence, it is there and they have to say it.

Nice words are not worth it, nor is it worth trying not to notice that

's presence in

was largely due to what their country is suffering.

grand final

there were practically no gestures to

.

knows very well how far it can go.

But nothing can reduce the impact of a war, a war in

.

Blame

?

Maybe not this year, but in previous years there has always been this and it is a very difficult stigma to make it disappear.

In fact, let's face it, that's never going to happen.

We will have to continue betting on artists of the stature of

, for performances as extremely spectacular as the one she did last night at

, for that feeling that

returned to

last night , that of believing, that we can win, that of having removed from always being among the last, that if we do it well, it can be achieved.

We must not stop believing in

or in our possibilities, we must be realistic, and never lose hope because

, as the Spanish Soccer Team did in 2008 and 2012 when they won the European Championship, or in 2010, when they won the World Cup .

has to serve us, as much as it hurts and alleviates that third place at the same time, to believe that we are much closer to that

.

And if it doesn't happen, and if there is always a

or another reason that takes that glory away from us, then let's enjoy the

, since there is already enough sadness in the world and, for at least 4 hours a year ,

will give us a party .

But it hurts.

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