The second time was the charm, and in what way.

With 167 points and an agreement that is not always evident between the professional jury and the popular votes,

Blanca Paloma

has been proclaimed the great winner of the second semifinal of the

Benidorm Fest.

Vicco

(135),

Karmento

(112) and

José Otero

(105)

will accompany her to the final , and

Alfred García

,

Siderland

,

Famous

,

E'Femme

and

Rakky Rypper

are left out of the competition .

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The second semifinal, which

RTVE

has advanced 10 minutes by surprise, has been a parade of video clips.

Not suitable for unskilled editors, the scenery has included complete rooms with everything and its bookstore, dressers, cars and reminiscences of the former

Benidorm Song Festival

.

From the 60s, in black and white.

Less fiery than in the first round, the staging of the four new chosen have entered the final shrouded in smoke.

Blanca Paloma

's

was a round

performance

, perfectly square for television production, with a combination of

steady cam

turns and overhead shots that her flamenco nanny, tremendously Spanish but without clichés, dressed in red.

Not surprisingly, she is a set designer and theater costume designer, and the tables were noticed.

The woman from Elche has dedicated her song to her grandmother Carmen, who never heard her sing.

"She would be very proud," she recalled.

His is "a trance por bulerías, a new flamenco hybridized with electronic music", and above all a chorus suitable for Eurofans: who doesn't know how to sing

Eaea

?

"Packaged for Eurovision", the experts already thought from the rehearsals.

A sweet and somewhat naïve

Vicco

danced her

Nocheentera

between disco balls and vanity mirrors.

He came to music thanks to Alejandro Sanz, and to the

Benidorm Fest

wanting to have fun.

Disco balls, vanity lights and a striking electric blue

look

for catchy radio formula lyrics with easy rhymes that have won over the professional jury and the poll vote, not so much the viewers, who have left it in fourth place.

José Otero

started as a betting favorite for this second semifinal.

The canary who triumphed in Mexico had been dreaming of Eurovision for years, but he did not appear until he was ready.

His melodic

Winters on Mars

have combined red and black on a circular podium in which Otero has displayed all his vocal potential that, perhaps, could take him to

Eurovision

.

Mercedes,

Karmento

's mother , received the public at the foot of the stands with a large white flag.

It was also her birthday.

She could not have had a better gift.

The Castilian-Manchegan woman has displayed her barefoot

folk

proposal together with an intergenerational choir in the middle of a stage full of symbols of her land and with the silhouette of her grandparents in the background against a hanging sheet.

"I'm not afraid of judgment, not at all," she assured.

'Performances' that have not convinced and drowned voices

The five artists who will not go to the final have presented very diverse proposals, which have not convinced.

A common point has been the drowning in some voices, perhaps with too much choreography for a live show.

Famous

has sung to his

Lola

with a choreography full of sensuality and stripper reminiscences that at times reminded of those magical movements of the Backstreet Boys.

However, so much fluctuation has taken its toll on his live voice, and he could tell a certain amount of suffocation.

Alfred García

has captured the spirit of that original Benidorm Festival and has been accompanied on stage by

The Spanish King

, an almost 91-year-old model and

influencer

in a performance that started with a purely television set design to evolve into a live show with touches of yesteryear that has not conquered the demoscopic vote, which has left it out of the competition.

Rakky Ripper

has bet so much on the transgression in his wardrobe that could have happened to him.

His very high white platforms were hardly compatible with getting on a moving walkway, and after several falls in rehearsals, the last one a few hours before the final, heralded a thorny performance.

However, he has saved the tackle with great skill.

The four

E'Femme

have danced more than sung, a complicated combination of the live voice with a three-minute choreography without pauses.

The result has not convinced even the public

applause meter

.

The Catalans

Siderland

have destroyed a fictitious room with their

Que esclati tot

, surrounded by chroma men with a poorly defined role in the

show

as a whole .

They wanted it to become "the crash party."

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