OT 2017 TOP 3 CHRISTMAS GALA
Here's gala 8 :)
The first special gala of the new OT!! This aired on Christmas Day, and I remember being more excited for this than for the presents and stuff jsdjs. Anyways, this gala worked a bit different. There were no nominations or expulsions, this was just to have fun. And, as special guests, some OT 1 contestants sung songs they performed in OT 1 with the OT 2017 contestants!!! Which was very cool!!! I'll talk about them if I get to talk about the songs so you get a bit of context, but yeah, this was a big deal!! When OT 1 came out I was 3 (my mum says I watched it tho) so I don't have a real attachement to them, BUT since last year my favourite Spanish youtuber, Carolina Iglesias, has been making a series of videos reacting to all the galas of OT 1, they are hilarious and if you know Spanish I really recommend them (here's the video of the first gala, I couldn't find a complete playlist, but she's done up antil gala 5-6 i believe, she stopped right after Àlex's death, I don't know when she'll continue with them). Anyways, thanks to those videos I now know a bit more about the contestants, so I can talk a bit more about them here :)
Anyways, let's start with the honorable mentions:
Lady Marmalade - Ana, Gisela, Vero & Mimi: The original performance (the third girl is Chenoa, one of the most famous from the edition and the absolute best) is one of the most iconic performances of OT 1, and this one was also very good! Vero ended up 6th and it's now a singer residing in the USA, while Gisela (who btw if I had watched OT1 would've been my favourite alongside Alejandro) ended up 8th and she's now a successful musical actress and voice actress. In fact, she was the voice of Elsa in Castilian, which means she performed in the Oscars in 2019!!!!
Vivo Por Ella - Nerea & Àlex: I still listen to this song to this day, it's sooo good. Anyways, Àlex ended up 10th in OT 1, and continued working in the Catalan television network, released some songs and starred in musicals, until he sadly died due to a car crash in March 2nd 2021, a death that shocked the whole nation, as he is the first contestant from OT to die, and which makes watching this video harder ngl. Anyways, here's the original performance, by Gisela and David Bustamante (I think Bustamante was supposed to sing this song with Nerea originally, but he couldn't make it. Bustamante is one of the most succesful artists that came out of OT ever. ALSO, I believe people shipped Bustamante and Gisela during the contest).
Gracias por la música - Amaia & Rosa: THE TWO QUEENS OF SPAIN!!! Anyways, Rosa won OT 1 and went to Eurovision with the bop "Europe's Living a Celebration", and if you hear her sounding a bit off, it's cause they fucking exploited the hell of her voice after she won (here's the original performance with Nuria Fergó so you can hear how amazing her voice was), until the point she had to get surgery. So yeah. But yes, Rosa was dubbed Rosa de España (and Amaia was also dubbed Amaia de España), and she will always form part of the history of Spain.
3. NOCHES DE BOHEMIA - MIREYA & NURIA FERGÓ
Here's the original song, by Navajita Plateá, and here's the performance in OT 1, by Nuria and Manu Tenorio :)
Flamenco in OT is so scarce that I gotta take what little we have. And this song was SO GOOD and Nuria and Mireya are SUCH QUEENS. I genuinely prefer this version to the OT 1 one. Anyways, Nuria Fergó ended up being 7th, and she's still a singer, with a couple hits, and has also appeared as an actress in TV shows. I really liked her in OT 1, and I think she's underrated, just like Mireya. Also, both of them won beauty pageants in their hometowns, both in Andalusia, so this was like a match made in heaven.
2. CAMINA - GROUPAL
Slight spoiler, number 1 and 2 are going to be group songs!!! Anyways, this is the hymn of OT 2017, and they sung it for the first time here!!!! This song is so fucking iconic, you don't understand, it was EVERYTHING. It has nearly 11 million streams on Spotify alone, and I'm sure it was like Platinum or something like that. This song was everywhere, cause it encapsulates that happy period of our lives when OT 2017 was on and everything was good, I can't be the only one that still tears up a bit listening to it. And in the tour!!! It was everything!!! There was this tradition of Miriam, who was the one who wrote it, getting onstage alone, and giving a speech, and right after that, everyone would come along and we would just go crazy. Oh, to go back to those days.
1. MI MÚSICA ES TU VOZ - GROUPAL
Here's the original song, by the OT 1 contestants :)
NO BUT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS SONG WAS GAMECHANGING. Like I can't even start to describe how hard this song hit, like right now, 20 years later, it's still one of the most well-known Spanish songs, people who weren't even born when OT 1 happened know this song, it's a lot. It got to number 1 in Los 40 (the Spanish Billboard Hot 100), and i'm sure it got at least Double Platinum or some insane shit like that. Keep in mind 60% of Spaniards watched the final of OT 1. Also, in 2016 they did a reunion concert after nearly 20 years, and of course they did this song. Here's a video of it, so you can see the impact that this song still has (LOOK AT HOW THE AUDIENCE SINGS IT WITH THE CONTESTANTS). Anyways, long live OT :)
