The third night in Sanremo is about to start. All the 14 Big category singers will sing and be voted tonight. The remaining four Newcomers will sing as well and only two of them will go on to tomorrow's final, while the televote for the Big counts 25% of the final result.
20.46 Here we go again. RAI has changed finally the Eurovision theme (they used the old one the first night ;-)) It's San Valentino so the evening starts with a love film and then a fighting couple Fabio and Luciana are on stage and burst out singing off key Mietta & Minghi's Vattene amore. Then Fabio surprises Luciana with some flowers but the bouquet is about as big as she is.... asurprise kiss gets her really off and the evening starts with the wrong foot.... LOL
A recap of the 14 Big follows and the televote has been opened. No jury for them tonight, only televote so you in Italy, vote vote vote! And then we go....
20.57 Simona Molinari & Peter Cincotti - La Felicità ***
Simona has changed her dress to a long one and looks stunning. The song is a happy jazzy tune full of sunshine and summer holidays. I must admit I like this now much more than the first round....
21.02 Marco Mengoni - L'essenziale ****
Mengoni has also changed his suit, instead of blue a red one. He has also curled his hair. A very strong performance this time and not so many strange faces and rolling the eyes as usual. Big applause. Very good indeed.... this starts to sound and look Eurovision worthy.
21.08 Elio e le storie tese - La canzone mononota *
This lesson of music with one note only is funny for the first time, if even that. This is genial and very educative and clever but not for this stage. How about kindergarten or schools? I repeat myself but I want in Sanremo (and Eurovision for that matter) real songs, not these cabaret numbers.
21.13 then we have a little chat with Bebbe vessicchio, a legendary conductor with notable beard. Luciana wanted a souvenir from Sanremo, a bit of Bebbe's beard of course. said and done, scissors and a plastic bag that end between her breasts..... LOL!
21.15 Malika Ayane - E se poi ****
A new dress for Malika or maybe it's the same with added collarpiece? Anyways very elegant and smooth. beautiful melody, light and a bit retro. This makes me think of some 1960's movie for some reason. Would be also an elegant choice for Eurovision, but maybe not strong. Meanwhile she has released a video for her other entry, Niente. Makes me think she would have preferred that one perhaps... and that would be a great entry for Eurovision indeed!
21.26 After adds we are back. Luciana has something to say about men and love.... and love in general this day of San Valentino. And the gay theme returns: love is love, no matter who you love. And then we get to the point, violance against women. Every 2-3 days a man kills a woman in Italy. She gives a very strong speech about women's rights. Brava!
Then she joins in to dance with 200 women Break the chain, the theme song of 1Billion rising. Today this flash mob has been dances all around the world by millions of women. Maybe Luciana can't sing or dance but tonight's she's really putting herself out there!
21.40 Marta sui tubi - Vorrei **
Not much to say about this one. Not my cup of tea, rather uninsteresting in every way. I preferred their other song, it had something special at least in its lyrics.
21.46 Chiara - Il futuro che sará ***
The song is pleasant but that's all. Somehow I find it fake. At moments it looks like even she's a bit bored with it. Not very convincing I'm afraid. She's pretty good though.
21.50 Time for some football and Roberto Baggio... a living legend for those who run after a ball and watch others running after the ball..... these days active in humanitary work. And very rarely in TV or giving interviews so this is an Event. He has an open letter to the youth of today. After Luciana's monologue the evening continues with great speeches. Bravo Fazio!
And standing ovation for Baggio. A well deserved one, too.
22.09 Max Gazzé - Sotto casa ****
Max has changed his suit and doesn't look like a circus director so much anymore. I like this more tonight that before but maybe the performance was better the last time? This has something of an old German schlager, the intro as a doorbell and the outro as Lolololololollooo.... Strangely capitivating.
22.17 Annalisa - Scintille ***
Another retro-schlager. Is this some new trend in Italy pushing away the classic Italian ballads? Anyways, she performs very well in her granny's underwear. Her other song was much better and way more credible.
22.21 Maria Nazionale - È colpa mia ****
She's the revelation of this festival for me. I loved her other song but this one's very good, too. Full of passion and tradition. I hope RAI would have a courage to send another Napoletan artist to Eurovision after such a long time. She's fabulous. Period. Oh, and huge applause!
22.27 Simone Cristicchi - La prima volta (che sono morto) **
After Bebbe's beard, Maria's booms Luciana makes fun of Simone's hair. She tried to return the beard to Bebbe after he conducted Maria's song as he looked to have taken it bad but Bebbe was a sport and gave the bag to her... Peace made. Ok, this song? Another retro-schlager, what else? Funny lyrics, quite nice melody but I don't know how many times this will be funny and nice? Not many I suspect.
22.30 Apparently Cascada were Glorious in Germany and won. Guaranteed high votes from Finland then..... I will catch up with that later, I have decided to concentrate on Sanremo full time this time....
22.37 Time for a special guests, Antony & The Johnsons doing You're my sister live, with the big orchestra. isnät that great? No play-back or sing-back, all live and orchestrated. After his fantastic performance also he talks about women's rights. Women are the key to our future survival.
23.47 Luciana talks about her dresses, each night a different young designer. She was afraid she would do damage to their career rather than promotion, lol!
22.49 Modà - Se ti potesse non morire ***
Better sung tonight but it's still painful to watch him sing at times. The song is a bit flat, not going anywhere. In Eurovision terms: Where's the keychange?! Gets rather boring very fast. But they do have a lot of fans to vote them tonight.... and apparently even dentro Teatro Ariston judging the applause.
22.54 Daniele Silvestri - A bocca chiusa ****
Very simple and captivating. Somehow the sign language guy now doesn't disturb me anymore, rather I follow him instead and try to understand.... Fascinating. And the mute singing makes people applaude in the middle of the song. A good sign. And mind you, I never was a Silvestri fan!
Fazio reminds about the televote that counts 25% tonight, and other 25% of the one of Saturday night while the remaining 50% is the jury.
23.06 Almamegretta - Mamma non lo sa ****
One of my favorites! Raiz is great and the song is a kind of reggae I like. Don't know how the general public will vote for them. Not much I'm afraid. But I'd love to see them even in Malmö 2013!
23.11 Raphael Gualazzi - Sai (Ci basta un sogno) ***
This is no Madness of love but something more difficult. He has changed to more stylish outfit. Not really my cup of tea but he's very convincing performer and makes me believe it. Premio della critica coming up? Televote is now closed and Fazio tells that as Raphael was the last one tonight, Saturday he will be the first. Apparently there will be the same but reversed order...
23.20 Before the Newcomers we wil have a young award winning pianist, Leonora Armellini (20), who plays us some Chopin, her great love. Besides that she's a fan of Chiara!
23.27 Time to open the televote for the Newcomers. And the usual warnings about the abuse.... also this is Italy!
23.28 Andrea Nardinocchi - Storia impossibile ***
One of those who has it harrd to keep his eyes open on stage, or look at the camera. Anyways, the song is kinda nice but forgettable. He has a table and laptop on stage and was doing some sort of sampling and stuff, too. I think...
23.33 Antonio Maggio - Mi servirebbe sapere ****
He already won X Factor with Aram Quartet a few moons ago and is now with ... another retro-schlager. But I like this one. This is jolly and happy and he has th twinkle in the eye and even the conductor joins in to sing. If Andrea was afraid of the camera, Antonio surely isn't!
23.37 Paolo Simoni - Le parole **
A traditional Italian ballad this one, would be more suitable for the Big category, lol. The one I was asking there. But this is a bit boring, I'm afraid. A very timid applause! Did the audience fall asleep?
23.43 Ilaria Porceddu - In equilibrio ****
She has a dress you cannot not notice! Besides that a lovely piano all through the song, very melodic, nicely song and if I'm not mistaken a part in Sardinian? I hope she qualifies with Antonio...
23.49 Stop al televoto! Next we will have Albano just like Toto Cutugno the first night and Ricchi e Poveri should have been last night. Awarded and singing a song or two... maybe he will manage to say something to cancel all the pro-gay things happened in Sanremo so far? We will see....
23.56 Albano enters singing Nostalgia canaglia (Sanremo 1987). He must feel a bit homesick, after all he has been on thta stage already 14 times... Then he continues with È la mia vita (Sanremo 1997) and gets a standing ovation. Then he does push ups on stage and kisses it. Homesick indeed! Then he does Felicità, voted by the poeple as his best Sanremo song.
I miss Romina Power.... actress laura Chiatta plays Romina.... sigh....
It gets even worse when Luciana takes the stage as Romina! Well, at least they are the same height!
00.12 It's time for the newcomers results.... Antonio Maggio! Yes... and then... Ilaria Porceddu! Great! And then the situation with the Big..... but before that pubblicitá!
00.17 And here's the envelope... when Luciana and Fabio start to read the names audience whistles and boos so much that they ask them to do it first, and then they announce the next name.... and this voting weights 25% of the final votes. here:
A recap of the 14 Big follows and the televote has been opened. No jury for them tonight, only televote so you in Italy, vote vote vote! And then we go....
Simona has changed her dress to a long one and looks stunning. The song is a happy jazzy tune full of sunshine and summer holidays. I must admit I like this now much more than the first round....
Mengoni has also changed his suit, instead of blue a red one. He has also curled his hair. A very strong performance this time and not so many strange faces and rolling the eyes as usual. Big applause. Very good indeed.... this starts to sound and look Eurovision worthy.
This lesson of music with one note only is funny for the first time, if even that. This is genial and very educative and clever but not for this stage. How about kindergarten or schools? I repeat myself but I want in Sanremo (and Eurovision for that matter) real songs, not these cabaret numbers.
21.13 then we have a little chat with Bebbe vessicchio, a legendary conductor with notable beard. Luciana wanted a souvenir from Sanremo, a bit of Bebbe's beard of course. said and done, scissors and a plastic bag that end between her breasts..... LOL!
A new dress for Malika or maybe it's the same with added collarpiece? Anyways very elegant and smooth. beautiful melody, light and a bit retro. This makes me think of some 1960's movie for some reason. Would be also an elegant choice for Eurovision, but maybe not strong. Meanwhile she has released a video for her other entry, Niente. Makes me think she would have preferred that one perhaps... and that would be a great entry for Eurovision indeed!
Not much to say about this one. Not my cup of tea, rather uninsteresting in every way. I preferred their other song, it had something special at least in its lyrics.
The song is pleasant but that's all. Somehow I find it fake. At moments it looks like even she's a bit bored with it. Not very convincing I'm afraid. She's pretty good though.
Max has changed his suit and doesn't look like a circus director so much anymore. I like this more tonight that before but maybe the performance was better the last time? This has something of an old German schlager, the intro as a doorbell and the outro as Lolololololollooo.... Strangely capitivating.
Another retro-schlager. Is this some new trend in Italy pushing away the classic Italian ballads? Anyways, she performs very well in her granny's underwear. Her other song was much better and way more credible.
She's the revelation of this festival for me. I loved her other song but this one's very good, too. Full of passion and tradition. I hope RAI would have a courage to send another Napoletan artist to Eurovision after such a long time. She's fabulous. Period. Oh, and huge applause!
After Bebbe's beard, Maria's booms Luciana makes fun of Simone's hair. She tried to return the beard to Bebbe after he conducted Maria's song as he looked to have taken it bad but Bebbe was a sport and gave the bag to her... Peace made. Ok, this song? Another retro-schlager, what else? Funny lyrics, quite nice melody but I don't know how many times this will be funny and nice? Not many I suspect.
22.30 Apparently Cascada were Glorious in Germany and won. Guaranteed high votes from Finland then..... I will catch up with that later, I have decided to concentrate on Sanremo full time this time....
23.47 Luciana talks about her dresses, each night a different young designer. She was afraid she would do damage to their career rather than promotion, lol!
Better sung tonight but it's still painful to watch him sing at times. The song is a bit flat, not going anywhere. In Eurovision terms: Where's the keychange?! Gets rather boring very fast. But they do have a lot of fans to vote them tonight.... and apparently even dentro Teatro Ariston judging the applause.
Very simple and captivating. Somehow the sign language guy now doesn't disturb me anymore, rather I follow him instead and try to understand.... Fascinating. And the mute singing makes people applaude in the middle of the song. A good sign. And mind you, I never was a Silvestri fan!
Fazio reminds about the televote that counts 25% tonight, and other 25% of the one of Saturday night while the remaining 50% is the jury.
One of my favorites! Raiz is great and the song is a kind of reggae I like. Don't know how the general public will vote for them. Not much I'm afraid. But I'd love to see them even in Malmö 2013!
This is no Madness of love but something more difficult. He has changed to more stylish outfit. Not really my cup of tea but he's very convincing performer and makes me believe it. Premio della critica coming up? Televote is now closed and Fazio tells that as Raphael was the last one tonight, Saturday he will be the first. Apparently there will be the same but reversed order...
23.27 Time to open the televote for the Newcomers. And the usual warnings about the abuse.... also this is Italy!
One of those who has it harrd to keep his eyes open on stage, or look at the camera. Anyways, the song is kinda nice but forgettable. He has a table and laptop on stage and was doing some sort of sampling and stuff, too. I think...
He already won X Factor with Aram Quartet a few moons ago and is now with ... another retro-schlager. But I like this one. This is jolly and happy and he has th twinkle in the eye and even the conductor joins in to sing. If Andrea was afraid of the camera, Antonio surely isn't!
A traditional Italian ballad this one, would be more suitable for the Big category, lol. The one I was asking there. But this is a bit boring, I'm afraid. A very timid applause! Did the audience fall asleep?
She has a dress you cannot not notice! Besides that a lovely piano all through the song, very melodic, nicely song and if I'm not mistaken a part in Sardinian? I hope she qualifies with Antonio...
23.49 Stop al televoto! Next we will have Albano just like Toto Cutugno the first night and Ricchi e Poveri should have been last night. Awarded and singing a song or two... maybe he will manage to say something to cancel all the pro-gay things happened in Sanremo so far? We will see....
00.17 And here's the envelope... when Luciana and Fabio start to read the names audience whistles and boos so much that they ask them to do it first, and then they announce the next name.... and this voting weights 25% of the final votes. here:
14. Almamegretta
13. Marta sui tubi
12. Malika Ayane !!!
11. Simone Cristicchi
10. Max Gazzé !!
9. Daniele Silvestri
8. Elio e le storie tese !!! phew...
7. Maria nazionale
6. Simona & Peter
5. Raphael Gualazzi
4. Chiara
3. Annalisa
2. Modà
1. Marco Mengoni
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