This Tuesday, May 7, the 68th edition of Eurovision, the European song festival, officially started. A delivery that this 2024 will be celebrated in Malmö after Loreen’s resounding victory last year in Liverpool with Tattoo. Spain will try to win the contest with the help of Nebulossa and her song Zorra, which won the Benidorm Fest on February 3. However, he will have to face more than 20 rivals.
One of the strongest bets has been presented by Moldova through Natalia Barbu with the song In the middle. A song that mixed epic melodies, a violin solo with wings in the background and a very high final note. However, what users of social networks such as
Barbu has appeared on stage with a dress very similar to the one that the Sevillian singer wore during the grand finale of the 2012 festival, where she ended up occupying tenth place thanks to the song Stay with me. The networks have noticed this detail immediately, and have not taken long to comment on it. “If Pastora Soler had been born in Moldova and not in Coria del Río…” commented one of the first users to react.
“I don’t know, draw your conclusions, it’s that even the accessory changes color and location and new dress,” explained another of the replicas, showing a photographic comparison between the Moldovan and the Spanish. As she explains, the direction of the seams on Barbu’s dress is the opposite of Soler’s, while he wears a large brooch on his shoulder unlike Pastora, who wears it on one side.
The first semi-final started with a triple performance. Eleni Foureira opened the festivities at the Malmö Arena, with her song that left her on the verge of winning the 2018 edition, Fuego. It was a short version, fragments widely known by the public that filled the pavilion, intended to remember the slogan of this 2024: United by Music, united by music. Eric Saade, who finished third in 2011 with the song Popular, soon joined the party.
The third and last to appear on stage has been Chanel, who has once again drawn applause and ovations from the public with SloMo, the song that lifted her to third place at the 2022 festival held in Turin. Wearing a blue dress with rhinestones and transparencies, Chanel repeated the first verse and chorus of the song, including the dancebreak that would become a trend in so many other Eurovision songs later on.
