Songs dedicated to mothers are a safe bet in Junior Eurovision. Thus Andria Putkaradze took the 239 votes that made Georgia the winner by far. Meanwhile, at the foot of the stage, tears were welling up in the eyes of Chloe de la Rosa. Our candidate had to settle for sixth place among the 17 participating countries. Her theme Like La Lola has reached 144 points, 64 from the public vote and 80 from the professional jury. However, frustration comes most strongly when the expectations sown by being the host country are not metwhere you feel that the public supports you more than the rest. But it’s only because it goes with you.
Although Chloe’s emotion above all has been that of a kid watching her party come to an end. Because she’s just a kid. Let’s not forget that. But a child who has performed on a colossal stage. rivaling other kids and, at the same time, rivaling the adrenaline of trying to be the best. It is for the same reason that we left Junior Eurovision back in 2007. But decisions are volatile.
And there we came back, so much so that TVE has ended up organizing Junior Eurovision We were a rebound this year after France won again and couldn’t organize it because they’ve had enough with the Olympics. We didn’t produce the festival when it won Maria Isabel with Better dead than simple two decades ago, but Televisión Española has done it now: proving that the public broadcaster is ready to put together the big version of Eurovision again. Again, after 1969.
Impressive to see the complex technological choreography in the auditorium.. We look at how the children dance, but the cameras and lights must also dance with millimetric harmony so that the viewer feels the show with the emotion that the artistic directors of each country demand. Because TV is teamwork at its best, of what is seen and what is not seen so that it can be seen. And to be felt. A puzzle of gears that transform creativity in television into a fast-paced live show.
Behind those cameras moving at full blast, there were the little artists dancing together when they were not seen on TV. Singing, jumping, hugging. Of the most enthusiastic, the Ukrainian cast who celebrated every performance as if it was their own. It is probably the big difference from the Junior to the adult Eurovision: even when they compete, the candor of the game always ends up winning.
The problem is when that end-of-year field trip congregation. is not transmitted on a television that is too polluted by the adult society that completely misses the learning that the childish look leaves us to introduce the kids in the lane of what they are supposed to expect from us. The girls, princesses with shiny heels. The boys, knights talking about feelings they don’t yet know. why Junior Eurovision looks older than Junior Eurovision? It does until they all sing together at the end. Then, there are no body spaces between them. They all end up sticking very close to the winner. They are all there with him, feeling like a gang. They all hug each other like what they are: kids thinking they are now friends forever. Even though they will most likely never see each other again.
