#sanremo song festival

[ortofosforico]

Warning:

Sanremo week is approaching, and this blog will be used and abused as a commenting platform.

[musicalelo]

Io ho sofferto per te Ora so fare l'attore Quante volte ho sbagliato Come un uomo d'onore Accendo la sigaretta Penso alla nostra storia Mentre guardo la notte Per le strade di Roma

DAMME 'NA MANO - Tony Effe

[styzz-unstyzz]

people were upset that olly won sanremo instead of lucio and now people are mad that olly turned down eurovision ?? make it make sense

[spaceytrash]

A mediocre and lackluster winner for a mediocre and lackluster festival. At least that kinda checks out

[frc-ambaradan]

It's Sanremo time again!

Topolino #3350 cover by Alessandro Perina and Valeria Turati.

Longest-running annual TV music competition in the world... or just simply the longest.

5 days. From 8:30pm to at least 2:00 if not 3:00am... except for the grand final on Saturday (that's probably gonna end at dawn). The whole Country's taken hostage, competitor broadcasters (read Mediaset) don't even think anymore of putting up counter progamming.

And even if you're not interested in it, you'll end up knowing EVERYTHING. The winner. The one who should have been the winner. Every single drama. How many sequins are on the host's jacket. Who placed the bomb at Mediaset Radio headquarters?

[zibaldone-di-pensieri]

I'm Italian, I'm not upset about Eurovision Estonia's song

Instead I like it and it's already a better song then the Italian one lol

I can't understand why most people nowadays just want to criticize everything

We're full of typical love songs that seem all the same

Then sometimes a funny and not too much serious song arrives and everyone acts like "oh no, it's not fair, it's not right, he should be removed, I'm angry, you can't make a song like that😱"

Also, esc is obviously full of songs in English language, we've the chance to hear another in Italian, stop complaining and enjoy it 🤩

Stop the seriousness, free the funny trash!

In these times, we need to laugh more.

[fiumedivita]

Sanremo 2024: how Italians go mad

You want to know why Italians are so weird and crazy? Here's how long the national song contest, the Sanremo Music Festival, was this year:

Just the 5 nights of the actual show were 26 hours and 3 minutes.

But then, if you add the pre-show, aftershow and Sunday specials you get 39 hours and 10 minutes.

It's a good thing we're famous for our espresso.

-------------------------- Here's a breakdown:

First night:

pre-show: 12 minutes

show: 5 hours 15 minutes (8:45pm - 2am)

after-show: 48 minutes

Total: 6 hours and 15 minutes

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Second night:

pre-show: 11 minutes

show: 4 hours 45 minutes (8:44pm - 1:29am)

after-show: 45 minutes

Total: 5 hours and 41 minutes

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Third night:

pre-show: 11 minutes

show: 4 hours 52 minutes (8:45pm - 1:37am)

after-show: 52 minutes

Total: 5 hours and 55 minutes

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Fourth night:

pre-show: 12 minutes

show: 5 hours 14 minutes (8:45pm - 1:59am)

after-show: 61 minutes

Total: 6 hours and 27 minutes

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Fifth night:

pre-show: 10 minutes

show: 5 hours 57 minutes (8:45pm - 2:42am)

after-show: No aftershow for the final! The host was actually co-hosting the main show.

Total: 6 hours and 7 minutes

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Sunday specials:

Domenica In (interviews + songs): 5 hours and 54 minutes

Dietro Festival (BTS with all the drama): 51 minutes

[eurovision-revisited]

Eurovision 2007 - Number 38 - Leda Battisti - "Senza me ti pentirai"

Leda Battisti's route to fame was familiar if a little bit old school. She was discovered by a TV show. It wasn't one of the early 20th century talent staples like the X Factor or the Hit Factory. It was a short-lived Italian variety show called Partita doppia (Double Entry), the vehicle for Superpippo, Pippo Baudo, the man who hosted and ran Sanremo 2002 - one of the best national song contests I've covered.

Leda is a classically trained guitarist, singer and song-writer, whose songs have Latin moods and rhythms. Even before the turn of the century she'd had hit singles and albums as well as finishing third in the 1999 Sanremo Giovani.

By the time she entered Sanremo in 2007, she had already done most of the things that singers in national finals do in their careers, but slightly at right-angles to everyone else. She'd even dubbed the song of an animated character. Not a Disney film, but a homegrown animation called La gabbianella e il gatto, one of the highest grossing Italian films of 1998.

2007 saw Leda releasing her fourth studio album and her label was happy to have her on stage at Sanremo to promote it. Senza me ti pentirai (Without Me You'll Regret It) is true to her Latin infused career. It's a tango, filled with drama and barbs aimed at a departing lover. Leda wants them to know just how much they won't be missed, how easy it will be for her to forget them and just how much fun she'll be having. Of course she's lying, but hell those boats are being burned in dramatic fashion. She ain't coming back.

Its drama and Leda's performance are both rather overshadowed by the tango going on behind and around her. The camera doesn't know who to focus on, but has a natural dug towards the movement of the dancers when Leda should be the focus. She's the centre of this song - the woman scorned, but that wandering camera takes the attention away from her fury and onto something sexier.

It was a mistake. Another mistake was not including this on the original pressing of the album. It was included on a relaunched version later in the year with the track included at the start and again at the end in a "Tango of Red Passion Version". Both flopped.

Leda's only appearance in the main competition at Sanremo resulted in a finish outside the top ten and it was also her last album and single for her on a major label. Subsequently she has continued to write and release new singles, but only digitally. Her career shifted from major music labels and the industry spotlight to self-published releases and singles on smaller labels.

Her style has become jazzier and more bluesy over time, but her compositions are still great. This is Seconda Notte (Second Night) released in 2023

[betweenthetimeandsound]

GOD BLESS AMADEUS.

That is all.

[ortofosforico]

Per questo Sanremo ho UNA paura:

[sweetiepootato]

Is it me or these songs have the same intro?

And what can be done in case both win?

[styzz-unstyzz]

to be honest I don't mind that olly turned down eurovision. whatever his reason may be i'm still very happy for him winning sanremo but !! people should appreciate the fact he doesn't want to do eurovision. like why are people so mad ?? i wouldn't want to do eurovision after all of the shit that's happened with it in the last few years. people will really find any reason to hate won't they

anyway lucio's song is equally beautiful to me so congrats lucio <3<3

[eurovision]

Lucio Corsi representará a Italia en Eurovision 2025 con "Volevo essere un duro"

Terminó el archiconocido Festival di Sanremo (sistema de selección italiana para el Festival de Eurovision 2025) y, a pesar de la victoria de Olly, será Lucio Corsi (segundo clasificado) quien representará al país con "Volevo essere un duro".

Y es que el vencedor del certamen musical italiano a declinado la invitación a participar en Eurovision por problemas de agenda, según él mismo ha comunicado.

Recordemos que Italia participará de forma directa en la Final de Eurovision 2025 el próximo 17 de mayo en Basilea al tratarse de uno de los países integrantes del Big 5.

[musicalelo]

Tutta L'Italia (Sanremo 2025) - Gabry Ponte

[theitaliansalad]

(an hellish week is about to begin for all those Italians who don't give a shit about Sanremo. it's me. I am that Italian. pray for me).

[animapunkocchidipeterpan]

MUDIMBI - IL MAGO 🩵

festival di Sanremo 2018