Dreaming of Eurovision. San Marino has become the capital of the disappointed by Sanremo
Mahmood and Blanco may not be the only Italians competing for the ESC in Turin. Because at “Una voce per San Marino” there will be some ambitious local singers ready to win a place on the stage of the European contest
Good times when we discussed the theory of the eternal present, a synthesis of the ill-concealed bewilderment against the disinterest in the future and of a past that never ceases to inspire, and with it nostalgia. The pandemic years have unexpectedly become an acceleration towards the future: nothing lasts more than 24 hours, I miss the glory, which is already time to set a new goal, perhaps more important certainly but weeks, months or years away. The new curling Olympians, Amos Mosaner and Stefania Constantini, who many already see the Italian flag carried at the Cortina 2026 Games, know something about it, as if it were the maximum goal after the – enormous – reached on Tuesday, and still fragrant live.
So the singers competing at the 72nd edition of the Sanremo Festival, pending between a promotional commitment and tour rehearsals, are already looking at theEurovision Song Contest, scheduled from 10 to 14 May next: not only Mahmood and Blanco, participants by right as fresh triumphs at the Ariston, but also some of the excluded cherish the idea of being part of it, even at all costs. This is even true for certain splinters that have gone mad from past editions, or from an even more remote past. As if winning Sanremo, in itself, no longer counts for anything and indeed is a ballast, if it cannot be spent there.
The basic musical will lies in the very nature of the continental event: far from being (as it once happened) a serious musical competition, calibrated above quality and novelty, theEurovision music competition – which will be conducted by Laura Pausini, Mika and Alessandro Cattelàn – it is increasingly configured as a trash kermesse for television purposes only, of improbable make-up, pompous hairstyles, hilarious dresses, equivocal choreography and shock. As well as a market for cows between nations, ready to pour out consensus and give back by playing on other tables.
It goes without saying that a song like “Broglie”, delicate and exciting, slow and thoughtful, sentimental and difficult (which has won, even rightly, by moving the bar of a standardized event for over seventy years), of chance to impress audiences of large grain and modest authorial culture does not have many. Although there is a precedent of the Portuguese Salvador Sobral, who with a sort of modern fado broke the ESC of 2017, prevailing over all kinds of Eurodance, turbofolk and tamarrate especially from the East. Not to mention the beautiful and epic “Heroes”, which two previously had given the prize to Sweden by Måns Zelmerlöw, years without exceeding in pimply tacky to cover the solid international pop of departure.
For this reason, the fans of the consolidated dancer movement that no longer started a week ago in Liguria – from the Representative of Lista to Dargen d’Amico, from Ditonellapiaga and Rettore to Rkomi, from Gianni Morandi to Achille Lauro – immediately wondered if it was not better, with an eye to Turin, the victory of something closer to that spirit, compared to the “Chills” of the two friends from Universal. And some of the aforementioned has also pledged to declare their willingness to wear the colors of the enclaves (the Republic of San Marino and even the Vatican City State), in order to participate in the bass drum that once, with other trappings, brought good luck. to Gigliola Cinquetti, Alan Sorrenti, Franco Battiato, Alice and Toto Cutugno.
The school hypothesis, for some, stopped at the joke: for example Tananai, a nice rogue, tweets about hoping for 24 renunciations and even looks to Azerbaijan (as in the citizenship market to play in national football teams, one wonders if still makes sense), while the LRdL is already scraping its ass off the text of “Ciao ciao” to aspire to represent the Vatican. Others, on the other hand, have moved on to formal things: the ten artists – among eight Italians – competing in “A voice for San Marino”, which will designate the blue-white standard-bearer, will compete on Saturday 19 February in the village of Dogana, in a show that is already sold out . Open the official casting, the veteran wallows in it Ivana Spain And Valerio Scanù in all places and all lakes, the teacher Alberto Forti And Tony Cicco voce ‘and Napule (formerly Formula 3), up to Spanish, Romanian, Turkish carnades and internal speakers, such Fabry & Labiuse featuring Miodio with an ambivalent pronunciation. But above all Achille Lauro, who last week opened the games at the Flower Festival with “Domenica”, and who seriously risks playing his cards at the Olympic stadium (courses and appeals) in Turin. In the face of pearl skies.
The small Apennine republic, which came into the limelight in the Tokyo Olympics thanks to Alessandra Perilli’s shots, thus co-opts the outsiders and buys up possible exploits, welcoming the excluded and recycling those who, despite the rhythms and the low unz, have not broken through the wall of the podium where it has always counted for the surrounding public. Few are desired if Eurofestival counts so much, that everyone wants to throw in even if it is not their business. Especially notwithstanding since the Måneskin have won, launching the brake of the tongue worldwide. But it will be a good day when in Italy we will begin to value more what we are and have, instead of craving ephemeral, artificial and carnival stamps: this would put the past at peace, give meaning to the present and prepare happier futures.