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They felt like a comeback to the 1960s in 1990… and thereupon lies your answer: they’re shows for boomers, designed for when they were 18±5 years old, and still catering to the same audience. Kind of like Eurovision.
As anecdotal reference, I’ve recently heard a boomer-aged gent, get scandalized by the “oversexualization” of modern pop singers… then proceed to watch a Miss contest, followed by an Eurovision “let’s pick our candidate” show 😒
Still is, they run the selection program from October/November the year before, until… well, it depends, this year they seem to be voting on a finalist right now, or something (sorry, I don’t follow the thing too closely).
They felt like a comeback to the 1960s in 1990… and thereupon lies your answer: they’re shows for boomers, designed for when they were 18±5 years old, and still catering to the same audience. Kind of like Eurovision.
As anecdotal reference, I’ve recently heard a boomer-aged gent, get scandalized by the “oversexualization” of modern pop singers… then proceed to watch a Miss contest, followed by an Eurovision “let’s pick our candidate” show 😒
Excuse me, but I will not take this Eurovision slander
Eurovision started in 1956, when the youngest “boomer” (born in 1946, or 9 months after WWII ended) was about 12 years old. Those are facts.
Now the slander: this is “Operacion Triunfo 2024”
Await with great expectation for one of those artists to represent Spain this year… 🤷
And then everyone got up and clapped.
Well not the boomer ageed gent, he was busy selecting Eurovision contestants.
Still is, they run the selection program from October/November the year before, until… well, it depends, this year they seem to be voting on a finalist right now, or something (sorry, I don’t follow the thing too closely).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operación_Triunfo_(Spanish_TV_series)