After relistening and watching the songs I have formed some opinions of the songs in the Artisti category. Generally pretty ok level of songs this year. None is outstanding though. Marco Mengoni, fresh favourite of The X Factor performs his songs with a gusto with a look to match and could easily bring home also this trophy unless Italians want something more traditional, like Malika Ayene. Whereas Mengoni is very present in his song and seems to jump out of the TV-screen Malike seems a bit aloof and absent minded yet hypnotic with an excellent song. Irene Fornaciari ft Nomadi give a solid good performance of their song. She is vocally strong and you can hear she is Zucchero's daughter but put against the two beforementioned might come across a bit boring? Boring for sure is not Arisa! She won last year the Newcomers and this year has even funnier look and happier song, helped with Sorelle Marinetti, three dragqueen who normally perform 40's and 50's schlager so it's a perfect match! I also like Noemi but the song falls a bit to the "nice" category, as does Irene Grandi. She's considered one of the favourites with a fan base, just like Valerio Scanu but both are...just nice. Sonohra was a little bit diappointing, mainly due to a bad performance live. Cristicchi and Moro have both quite interesting songs, maybe you can also ad Povia to this trio but I'm not sure I want to listen these songs several times? At this point I like the least Ruggeri, and the three dropped out last night (Cutugno, Pupo & co, D'Angelo) deserved to do so. Or maybe I would have dropped Ruggeri instead and kept D'Angelo in for another night? So my top-5 is: Mengoni, Malika, Arisa, Irene fr Nomadi, Noemi.
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