The big day has come. This Saturday night Benidorm hosted the final of the Benidorm Fest 2024, the festival whose winner will be the representative of Spain in Eurovision this year. In the case of our country, there have been eight finalists. The first to perform in the final was María Peláe from Malaga, and Almácor was the last to appear on stage. Precisely, the performance of the one from Villena has been marked by a technical failure.
Almacor was the last of the candidates to take the stage. He did it with his song Brillos Platino. With him he was running to lift the bronze microphone. The song, composed by Alejandro Capdevila Pérez and Almácor himself, is produced and mixed by Lex, the same team behind his last great success, Pop Tech. With a solid electronic base and maintaining his characteristic urban style, the artist gave the public a declaration of love that ended up leading to one of the biggest controversies of the night.
At the end of his performance, the young man saw how the scenery suffered a failure. Part of the fireworks at the end of his performance did not work, thus impoverishing the staging that the entire Villena team had planned for the grand finale of the festival. The screens with the scenery also failed. As a consequence, the audience erupted in boos of rejection, and many even asked that the young man have a new opportunity to perform again, since the failed ending was one of the key moments of his performance.
“They have boycotted Almácor’s scenery with the screens and the rain of fire at the end. We have to vote for him to compensate for this injustice,” said an Internet user on X, formerly Twitter. “The Palau d’Esports l’Illa de Benidorm collapses, asking that Almácor take action again due to technical failures and Almácor collapses,” expressed a user present there, attaching images.
“Almacor should be able to repeat the performance, they have screwed up the scenery in the first overhead shot,” said another user. “The thing about there being people complaining about ‘let him repeat it’? The public has come together to support an artist and point out an injustice. The boos are horrible, but that cry from the entire audience is for applause,” stated another Internet user. .
There were many who considered it an injustice that the young man had suffered this technical failure during his performance, and that is why the presenters, Ruth Lorenzo, Ana Prada and Marc Calderó, had to apologize live live for the failures in the performance, since the boos were increasing. “I was informed by management that there was a problem in the broadcast during Almácor’s performance. So, Almácor, we apologize. Let’s hope it doesn’t penalize. We are all with you, you are a king,” said Lorenzo. Next, she pointed to a “technical problem on the screens during the performance.”
“The management is evaluating, there is no penalty, it was a screen thing,” he pointed out again, making it clear that there was not going to be a repeat of his performance. At this point, the boos increased. “Before continuing, you are going to allow me to say a small thing. These days during the coexistence, many told us that they felt very bad every time you booed. I am going to ask you please that tonight you respect the artists that you are here. Please, I beg you. What a night, my God,” he said, very firmly.
