This Thursday, TVE broadcast a new installment of Blood Ties, presented by Jordi González, and on this occasion the special was dedicated to one of the most important Spanish singers of all time, Rocío Jurado. To talk about her, the program featured her daughter Rocío Carrasco and great friends of the artist such as Mercedes Milá, Carlos Herrera or María del Monte.
Apart from talking about the revolution that La Más Grande represented on an artistic and stylistic level, we also talked about the feminist values that it sent in a time of great censorship in our country. In fact, one of her most important messages was given by her on TVE after asking him about her bra size. However, decades later, how that moment was forged has come to light.
Thirty years ago, the sexist mentality prevailed in Spanish society. It was not common to hear men and women speak in the same way on certain topics, nor, of course, to make feminist proclamations. There was only one person, Rocío Jurado, who dared and did it in television interviews.
One of his most popular interviews that continues to be remembered is the one that Lourdes Lancho conducted with him on the program Un Paseo por el tiempo, presented by Julia Otero on La 1 de TVE. During the talk, for example, the meaning of her songs came to light with the well-known verse “I don't feel anything doing it with you.”
“Doesn't he cut it?” the journalist wanted to know. To which the Jury answered bluntly: “Not only does that not bother me, but I feel very proud. That is a song that has broken barriers that existed. Never had a woman dared to say such a thing in a song, it was always the man who left the women crying at the windows and with the children. And she left with another… It's not true, in our time that doesn't exist and I had to sing it.”
And then came the question that, to this day, three decades later, still has a queue: “Can you tell me your bra size?” Laughter echoed on the set and Rocío Jurado's response did not leave anyone indifferent either. “Am I going to tell you? The only bra I care about is the mental one. That is what you would have to wear to not ask me these questions,” she said.
However, with the broadcast of the special Blood Ties on the figure of La Más Grande, it has been discovered how this moment and, mainly, this controversial issue was created. According to Lourdes Lancho, the question was not a product of chance.
“It was a section on Julia Otero's program with quick, witty and funny questions,” the journalist began explaining. In fact, Rocío Jurado knew perfectly well what they were going to ask her. “We gave her the questionnaire before the program so she could answer convincingly,” she revealed. “Is this a stupid question? Yes. Macho? No,” Lancho said.
Faced with this surprising revelation, her daughter Rocío Carrasco made it clear that “she would know the question, but the answer was hers and no one told her.” For her part, Mariló Monteró assured that the question was well asked at that time and explained the reason: “Her cleavage was a national debate, because she broke the rules through the wardrobe.” And Mercedes Milá, showing humor, asserted that she herself had put her hands directly on the Jury's breasts.
