With Bago! reaches the socialization phase of suffering. In this ninth program, we've seen Maria Amolategi suffer. And we say it out loud: it was not worth going through that trance. The programme has put in a hurry the coach who has so far stood out for his honesty, positive attitude and impeccable intonation. Amolategi has shown that he is the only one who is not playing a role among all coaches: spontaneous, joyful, more natural than a Mahala yogurt.

That is why it seems a miserable lockdown that has prepared the direction of the program, capable of destroying anyone in good heart.

Yes, I know, the program has entered the completion phase, how has the Champions League been put into the semi-finals – why did you see that Messi Goal from 29 meters? That guy's amazing, really, and that's where the nonsense and the forces reserved for the next one are over. Everything has to be given and a detail can make a difference: Just being a Go!azen actor, all perfectly, famous and multimilionary – well, maybe not so much, but it's free to dream – or end up as a wannabe artist more than anyone remember, from talent show to talent show as a broken dog.

But what has been done to Amolategi has no name.

Come on, let me explain: today we have seen the last mourning in Bago!az, Aintzane and Kimetz in front of each other. And since it was not clear who would win, both have prepared a song for the gala that was going to start later with the performance of María Amolategi.

In fact, it's pretty hard to value with a simple vote the work of someone who's been sweating, crying, crying, bleeding, until a song goes out well with you all week long. Emotions shoot anywhere when that time comes, how a bottle of Coca Cola throws a Continent (if you haven't tried it, ask for help from an adult before you start).

In the mourning, Amolategi voted in favour of Kimetz, who voted in favour. Aintzane has won the duel. A drama. After the decision he made, we have seen the former singer of the group Sugan, Klaro, who had to go out with Aintzane to sing, almost to the street, and, to put more INRI into the matter, without taking time to breathe, he has begun to claim the action of Xabier Saldias and Iker Gutiérrez, who since they broadcast the galas on Fridays, go live to sing.

Well, you've already started singing Iker and Saldias, combining three songs from the Beatles. This has been, if I am not mistaken, the first time Saldias sang in disguise, and to do such an experiment when the competition is so tough, it is another bad decision of the program management. After rangling, Lennon and McCartney have reached the end of the songs and, for once, when he agreed with the assessment made by Baglietto, Amolategi has entered into a debate that began with ever-worse extremes between Iker and the Eibarrés coach.

To defend Iker, of course.

Here we have to open a parentheses to explain this attitude: in last week’s chronicle, as Kepa Matxain a.k. of Añorga commented, it is quite evident that some coach have a special affection to competitors: Saldias gets sparks from his eyes when he sees Eider, and Amolategi also gets very fond of Iker. There will be those who can accuse the coach of a lack of objectivity and perhaps there are no reasons for that. But I think we have to look further: in this walled society, we see less and less sweetness on television, because violence, sarcasm and cynicism have won the battle, and those of us who want a society based on mutual tenderness, we have to protect those public manifestations of a little timid love.

So there was the thing for the coach Beasaindarra, who had to sing with him the sense of guilt of his rival, and who danced the aurresku on the rope of the equilibrists, a rival who buried his eyes since he sang that atomic Shallow in the first program. So, it's normal for almost the entire program, when the cameras caught you, to be quite out.

Then the time has come for him to sing with Aintzane. And the thing hasn't worked. There was no chemistry, there was no spark, there was no energy in Bago!az terminology. These faces of Alex Sardui and Iker Villa summarize, more or less, the scene.

It's a pity. A lot of pity. In fact, it has become apparent that the joining of one of the best competitors of the programme and coach, let us say again, one of the most honest, positive and with more impeccable intonations, does not serve much in the face of the distressing situations imposed by the leadership of Bago!az.

The votes have been cast and the three artists with fewer points have been proclaimed. To make the situation even more dramatic, two contestants, Jokin and AINTZANE, have got the same points – which made Jokin a shame: he has everything to win, but the coach sees less than Serafín Zubiri – and that has called for a new vote from the jury.

Whether it was, living or dying, that was what Bago had at the time.

And although on this occasion Amolategi voted in favour of Aintzane – “aber, I have sung with the same request”, he explains –, Jokin has stayed in the program and Aintzane has left.

It's been very hard. A lot. Also for the contestant, of course, but who remembers at those moments the emotional state of the coach? Does anyone care for them? Is there a group of psychologists at ETB to help overcome these kinds of traumatic moments? Does anyone care about properly treating the sequelae caused by the program? Who will give Amolategi back the innocence she has lost in this programme? Who will give him back his smile after being forced to make more difficult decisions than in a Sophocles tragedy?

Who? Well, Danaek, the winners of this program. Amolategi has chosen to be his coach next week. It is the first time – like you, I am also intuited with the data – that you choose after you win. It rejoices. At the end of the sitting, he has apparently been relieved by the pains and magns of the calvary that have made him suffer and has again been seen with a smile. Not bad.

But if this is going to be the dynamic that will take place from now on, Bago! It's moving towards a niche that's very masochistic to the public. I, for my part, do not know whether I will be able to have the integrity of supporting another programme like this. Maybe the smartest decision is to disconnect until the end comes.