The freedom to show your breasts: Why does Spanish singer Amaral's gesture matter?

"No one can take away the dignity of our nakedness, the dignity of our fragility, of our strength," said Eva Amaral before removing part of her dress, leaving her breasts exposed.

Her performance at Sonorama Ribera 2023 marked the 25-year celebration of a musical career in the Burgos town of Aranda de Duero, thrilling the audience with songs from her new album and legendary tunes from her career.

It was "one of the most beautiful moments in the history of the band", said the Spanish artist, partly due to this gesture that has once again reignited the issue of machismo present in many spheres of society.

"Because there are too many of us and they won't be able to pass over the life we want to inherit, where I'm not afraid to say what I think", she continued, reciting the lyrics of one of her most recognisable songs: 'Revolución' ('Pájaros en la cabeza', 2005 - " Porque somos demasiadas y no podrán pasar por encima de la vida que queremos heredar, donde no tenga miedo a decir lo que pienso ").

Even today, women's bodies still make people uncomfortable. They are censored and objectified, which is why many artists choose to use them as a weapon of protest.

The singer Rocío Saiz has been engaged in this struggle for more than a decade and is "fed up with receiving threats and insults" through social networks.

"There is a very serious problem in this society," laments Saiz. "They have always resented the things we do. That we have jobs, that we think for ourselves, that we vote... And now it bothers them that we do whatever we want on stage.”

"They don't let us be, they want to control us."

As well as a feminist vindication, Amaral's topless performance was an act of solidarity with fellow artists Rocío Saiz, Rigoberta Bandini and