El monstruo (audience)

El Monstruo ('The Monster') is the popular designation that's given in Chile to the audience attending to the Viña del Mar International Song Festival. The name is due to great authority that perform the audience in each day of the event. From pressing to lengthen presentations favorite artists to interruptions with catcalls to singers and comedians who are not like,^[1] booing to prevent complete their show and force them to withdraw from the stage. In that case, in Chile it is said that "El Monstruo ate the artist".

The audience at the Viña del Mar International Song Festival is the only one in the world that has received a special name. This creates an expectation in people attending the show, waiting for the slightest opportunity to show their intolerance. Most artists booed by El Monstruo have been comedians, both for its lack of grace as the misfortune to get on the right stage between performances of singers or bands of renown.

He was remembered the occasion when El Monstruo asked the Gaviota de Plata (Silver Seagull) award for José Luis Rodríguez in 1988; the refusal of the mayor of Viña del Mar, Eugenia Garrido, who in the 1980s was who corroborated the awards, the singer said "Sometimes the people's voice must be heard", a phrase which some had a political background in relation to the military regime then ruling the country; the artist has said his sentence was not thought out or had a direct political intention.^[2] Rodriguez has indicated that feel that in that case it was a "tool for greater spiritual ideal."

Sometimes, however, the public is manifested catcalls to protest the presenters of the event. This happened in the 2007, when the animators, Tonka Tomicic and Sergio Lagos, dismissed the artist Ana Torroja to the general public discontent, he wanted her to continue singing.^[3] Boo to Lagos and Tomicic lasted nearly an hour. The same happened in 2009 when El Monstruo was in favor of Simply Red, booing for an hour for the group to return, and incidentally interrupting the Folk Competition, the singer Paolo Meneguzzi, a humorous routine performed by the trio Manpoval until partially calmed their minds with the presentation of Rakim and Ken-Y.^[4]

Explanation of the phenomenon

The possible reason for the existence of El Monstruo is over-dimensioned quality public festival to voice their catcalls heavily and for a long time. This is because the place and time of its completion, the Quinta Vergara Amphitheater (located on top of a small hill) and at night, provide a level of noise from the stands to the very large stage, even the blunder of a person can hear.

In addition, the gallery is very high in relation to the orchestra, which makes the audience look like a huge mountain of people rushes on stage, simulating rather be a semi-coliseum capable of holding 15,000 people in it.

List of ousted artists

Some of the artists to the public of Viña del Mar International Song Festival has prevented them from completing their stage show, but there are others that have been split by El Monstruo, that is, some booing and other cheering, and others amazingly they have managed to silence the boos.^[5]

Version			Artist/Group	Show	Explanation
1968	IX		Gloria Simonetti	Singer	It was catcalling in its two presentations on stage, what she said was due to a campaign against him by the daughter of a businessman. The following year win the festival with the song "Mira mira".
1972	XIII		Miriam Makeba	Singer	The South African, who was also an activist against racism was booed for several minutes. Finally, singing his famous song "Pata-Pata" managed to quell public blunders.
1977	XVIII		Los Muleros	Humorists	After a successful presentation in the year 1976, this group was presented with a brand new show, which was not to the taste of the public, which demanded the old songs.
			Juan Verdaguer	Humorist	Its elegant jokes failed to captivate the people of the Quinta, causing their quick exit from the stage in one of his two presentations.
1980	XXI		José Vasconcelos	Humorist	Brazilian bored the audience with jokes known until the catcalls would not let him continue.
1984	XXV		Ronco Retes	Humorist	After preparing a show in a couple of days, Ronco Retes took the stage with a routine that almost no one laughed at, which failed to last more than a few minutes.
			Checho Hirane	Humorist	After failing to tame the public, he believed that jumping into a trampoline could make him laugh. By now, the catcalls grew and his show ended abruptly.
1985	XXVI		Miguel Gallardo	Singer	In his first presentation it was catcalled up from the beginning by the public, so it could not go beyond a few minutes.
			Dyango	Singer	Despite having had a successful run last year, its own fans at what catcalling on 1985.
			María Conchita Alonso	Singer	The jury and Queen of the Festival received the hostility of the people, which hardly left her perform her songs.
1990	XXXI		Sergio Feito and son	Humorists	Feito and his son Mario suffered one of the worst catcalls in the history of the festival. Because of poor, poorly structured routine with a vintage jokes for the time, the boos were so strong that it had to turn environmental microphones of the public and the catcalls that were heard on television were the ones that went by microphones of artists and the orchestra.
1992	XXXIII		Lucho Gatica	Singer
			Florcita Motuda	Singer	The artist had acted in Competition 1987 wearing a presidential sash, which was interpreted at the time as a veiled protest against the military regime, which it was later recalled by the audience.
1993	XXXIV		Marcos "Charola" Pizarro	Humorist
			Luis Pescetti	Humorist	With a child and loosely structured routine, Pecetti bored the audience, which dropped him from the stage with his own game, lasting only seven minutes of presentation
			Piña Colada	Humorist
			Vaitiare	Singer
1994	XXXV		Onda Vaselina	Musical Band	The youth group was not known in Chile and had been brought to the festival only by agreement of Megavisión with Televisa to make Mexican artists. That caused them to be catcalled in his presentation.
1997	XXXVIII		Jorge Pérez	Humorist	Unknown to the public and the media, and the result predicted by the press was a strong booing from the audience, which was fulfilled to get this with a routine shown one month before in the Festival del Huaso de Olmué.
1998	XXXIX		Óscar Gangas	Humorist	He won the contempt for El Monstruo then began their routine making a critique of humor with double meaning, being that in an earlier day of the Festival of that year, the duo Melón y Melame won a Gaviota de Plata with that style routines, and when he did, too, at one of his jokes, a comparison with the prototype of Argentinean and Chilean people, thereby obtaining further catcalls in his ailing presentation.
			Sarah Sanders	Humorist	The Spanish failed to position themselves quickly with her show and after 7 minutes had to get off the stage.
2000	XLI		Xuxa	Singer	Brazilian singer suffered a embarrassment, when the audience responded with an obscenity to the chorus of her sing "Ilarié". Xuxa did not understand for several minutes and thought it was a game from El Monstruo. Finally when told who word the audience chanted, she entered into tears and went to his daughter on stage; the public took pity and gave the Gaviota de Plata.
			Enrique Iglesias	Singer	He earned the hatred of el Monstruo course, when was given the award "Gaviota de Plata", he launched it to the public as a sign, as he said, from gratitude. However, the gesture was not interpreted that way by the audience, and perceived as an insult and disrespect, so the last songs he had prepared for his repertoire were boos, until the end of his show.
2001	XLII		Daniel Muñoz	Comedian	His routine with the character El Carmelo failed to make the audience laugh as when in 2000 acted as El Malo.
2003	XLIV		Vanessa Miller	Comedian	The character La Nana Argentina was never liked by the audience, which responded negatively to any question Miller about their routine, despite the help the animator, Antonio Vodanovic, had given him.
2004	XLV		Natalia Cuevas	Comedian	Despite previously carried on the same stage, in 2004 was booed.
2005	XLVI		Fey	Singer	Although it was not entirely booed, the audience would not let her finish her presentation because before she, was presented with great success his compatriot Marco Antonio Solis, whom El Monstruo wanted back.
2006	XLVII		Los Tigres del Norte	Musical Band	They were booed because much of the audience demanded that the previous band (A-ha) continue the show. This caused trouble to the other side of the public who did want to hear, which caused protest in the same way.
2008	XLIX		Professor Salomón y Tutu-Tutu	Humorists	The routine of the characters failed to captivate El Monstruo.[6]
2009	L		Paolo Meneguzzi	Singer	It was catcalled up by El Monstruo because this required to the Simply Red band, lived a confusing and difficult situation to handle for animators, who watched part of the public to catcall and another part to scream for the singer.
			Manpoval	Humorists	Although they were not strongly catcalled, were due to retire from the stage early because the public was angry for demanded the return of Simply Red band, in addition to the old jokes used in his routine (very similar to what they had done in the Festival del Huaso de Olmué a month before).
2010	LI		Anahí	Singer	The Chilean public not only criticized the ex RBD to sing with playback, but booed and did not let her finish her show, in addition to being accused of wanting to emulate with little success the singer Lady Gaga.[7]
2011	LII		Ricardo Meruane	Humorist	It was catcalled up because the public wants to return to Sting band on stage. After some mistakes in the beginning, even alluding Sting and the public of the festival, as well as an ineffective routine, the comedian was booed. His act lasted only 19 minutes. His performance in the Festival by the following sentence is remembered: Gracias, gracias, no se molesten (English: "Thank you very much, do not bother"), that he repeated several times in his short minutes.
2013	LIV		Jorge González	Singer	The public was divided against when he alluded to big businessmen, such as Horst Paulmann, Andronico Luksic, the owners of Time Warner (owners from Chilevisión, organizer channel), calling them scoundrels and even to politicians like Michelle Bachelet and Sebastián Piñera, which made that part of the audience strongly catcalled him and other ovationed him in the same way, but to sing one of the songs of his ex group Los Prisioneros got that the side booed him to shut up and chanted their songs, to finish his show smoothly.
2014	LV		Ruddy Rey	Humorist	It was catcalled up by the public because this would keep listening to Ana Gabriel, so early in his routine received the boo. Also, his mood through music don't managed the impact he expected.
2015	LVI		Arturo Ruiz-Tagle	Humorist	It was catcalled up by the public when he start his presentation, not just for doing their boy character named Arturito, but it also because much of the audience wanted to return to the songwriter Yusuf Cat Stevens, but after leaving his character and make his routine classic style, he managed to silence the boos and provoke laughter in the audience.
2016	LVII		Pedro Ruminot	Humorist	During his routine, a part of the public began to catcall to a joke related to epileptics and the Catholic religion, forcing him to change the course of his routine. Although he received the Gaviota de Plata, Ruminot was carried away by nerves and continued an accelerated presentation without a logical story, which bored the Monster, who booed him tightly until he left the stage.[8]
			Ricardo Meruane	Humorist	While he had a good start routine, the catcalls of the public who remembered his poor performance in the 2011 he played a trick and caused nervousness, so his show began to decline, forcing him to leave the stage. The TV hosts tried to give a new opportunity to Meruane, highlighting the courage of comedian for continue their routine to adversity, which was applauded by El Monstruo; however, although he ended up accepting the challenge, the humorist finished boring the audience, forcing him to leave the stage after 45 minutes presentation.[9]
			Javiera Mena	Singer	The Chilean artist who also officiated jury, was booed by a part of the public during certain times in her presentation, because of their participation days ago during the show of Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz. Mena was invited by Sanz for to make a duet musical in the song Corazón parti'o. Unfortunately, Mena could not remember the lyrics of the chorus, improvising a confused hum and causing both catcalls of public and strong criticism on social networks. However, she managed to silence the boos and emerged victorious with Gaviota de Plata and Oro.[10]

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