🇪🇸 Nebulossa: How offensive is Zorra? (What Really Happened at Eurovision? EP 6)
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2024
- We’re just hours away from crowning the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. But one of the more controversial acts in its home country is not a firebrand pop princess but a middle aged couple singing under the moniker 'Nebulossa'. Their electro-pop anthem 'Zorra' has caused a stir in Spain as it attempts to reclaim the word ‘Vixen,’ often used as a slur to mean something like ‘bitch’ or ‘slut.’ "'Zorra' is partly autobiographical; it reflects women’s experiences of feeling marginalized and underestimated. Nebulossa’s María "Mery" Bas told Wiwibloggs, 'We decided to craft this song as a form of therapy.'
The use of the word though (47 times throughout the 3-minute song), has even divided Spain’s feminist movement, with some arguing it’s a powerful reclamation of the word, while others say it's derogatory.
'The problem is that this song is going to represent the country, and it's going to say, Europe, hey, guys came to Spain because there is plenty of sex. And this sex is related to prostitution, wherein many women are being exploited,' Eva Neila Ausín of Spain’s Feminist Movement of Madrid Group explained to the What Really Happened podcast. The Feminist Movement of Madrid caused controversy in Spain following a public row with Spain's main feminist movement, the 8M Commission, over its support for trans rights legislation.
With regards to Zorra, the debate has become so intense that even Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez weighed in. 'It seems to me that feminism is not only fair but also fun; this type of provocation necessarily has to come from culture,' he told Spain’s La Sexta.
It hasn’t fazed the band much. ‘The criticism has been minimal compared to the overwhelming positive reception we’ve received. Nebulossa’s Mark Dasousa told us.
In this episode of “What Really Happened at Eurovision?” We delve into the story of how a middle aged couple from coastal Spain exposed an existential fracture in Spain’s feminist movement and what it says about where the country is culturally today.
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For me, this is the best song in the competition and it’s not even close.
12 points for Spain ❤
Thank you so much for this video WILLIAM 🤟🦊♥️MUCH LOVE FROM SPAIN,AND GOOD LUCK FOR EVERYONE 🇪🇦♥️🇪🇺
We absolutely love Spain's entry. Thank you so much. ❤
Gracias por este video ,y gracias por el apoyo que le estais dando a Zorra,un abrazo fuerte 😊
These podcasts are fantastic, so interesting! Really enjoyed it ❤❤❤ More of this please!❤❤❤
I understand the polarization for Zorra. But all I can say is, Mery- a woman is involved. As well as the back-up woman. So if they really had a problem with it, then they wouldn’t be performing it. As long as women are involved it should be okay. Only men is another story, that is irrelevant.
I loved this song from the first time I heard it! It's a classic. In my top 3 Songs of the Eurovision year! It will be well remembered when others are long forgotten..,
I love the song!
Fabulous song of empowerment!!
My fav songggg
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I love the song but as a Spanish speaker for 20+ years Zorra always meant bitch. I’d never heard it translated as vixen until Eurovision 2024! I’m not saying it can’t be but it’s a loose translation to let it through.
I mean, it is the female version of zorro, so it does of course mean that too. But when you say it to or about a human - yeah that's not the intended meaning.
Zorra means smart and independent woman.... haven't you heard?