‘In true Delacroix style’, Eva Amaral showed her tits during her performance at the Sonorama Music Festival this Saturday. Dressed entirely in red sequins to match the spotlights that were pointed at her, she Amaral dedicated the gesture to several singers: “This is for Rocío, for Rigoberta, for Zahara, for Miren, for Bebe: for all of us“: by Rocío Saiz, who was asked by a police officer in the middle of a performance in Murcia to cover herself; by Rigoberta Bandini and her song to the breasts; by Zahara, censored in Toledo two summers ago, and her album Get out; by Miren Iza, of Tulsa, who suffered the cancellation of the cover of the single I don’t want to make history, which shows the image of the actress Socorro Anadón with a naked torso; and by Bebe, who was censured at a performance for the Latin Grammys for saying ‘whore’ in a song. “because we are too many“, lamented Amaral, before singing Revolution.
“Amaral has put the body knowing what it could mean. She has an important position and they are not going to stop calling her to do concerts, something that other artists cannot afford, “he explains the singer Rocío Saiz to this newspaper. The artist is excited by the dedication and, at the same time, outraged by the negative reaction that many people have shown on social networks.
In any case, he emphasizes that it is something that will not stop: “It is a real wave, giant, enormous and unstoppable. Rigoberta came after me and now it’s Amaral“, alert. The artists claim the nakedness of their bodies as a form of protest against the oppression against censorship: “The extreme right is ruling in many European countries and in Spain, although we are in stand-bywe have stopped it, but we are seeing how they are censoring texts, concerts, theaters… We are regressing,” Saiz stresses.
For many women, showing a breast is an act of protest. “The artists are an example to follow, they are the ones who have to go a step forward,” emphasizes the journalist from the Cadena Ser Lourdes Lancho. For her, the gesture must be understood in the current political context where changes generate situations of tension in public opinion. Lancho focuses on the fact that the attitude of “union” women is decisive. Against the division, she conceives the gesture of showing her breasts as “a kind of reminder and unification. A wake-up call to remember: ‘The established system of power wants to change us, or we stand up and unite or we get nothing ‘”.
The lawyer and television collaborator Isabel Rábago doubts the vindictive effect that showing her chest could have in an artistic performance: “I applaud her as a marketing strategy, but if she has done it, as they say, to defend women’s rights, I don’t understand what rights has he achieved for women with this”.