Tonight the show goes on. The other Big ten perform their song and they are voted by televote/press jury and we will discover the previsional top-6 and bottom-4. But there will be the first eliminations as well, among the Newcomers in direct duels. The show is expected to last again 3,5 hours. And then there's another hour of Dopofestival....
Last night over 550.000 tweets were sent with #Sanremo2016 and Arisa got the tweeters wils (maybe thanks to her look)
Tonight's guest stars are Eros Ramazzotti, Ellie Goulding, Nino Frassica and Nicole Kidman
Join me tonight again here 20.30 CET for some live blogging :-)
20.45 Here we go again!
20.50 And we start away with the first Newcomers duel, the female one.
Newcomers Duels:
Chiara does a good job with her song. She gives a relaxed and confident performance against a very colorful backdrop. Well done.
It's worth remembering the Newcomers songs have been online already since forever and so the voting time is very short. Tonight's decision is 50-50 televote-Press vote
Time for the Big
Long white and black graphic dress for her that you don't see as she's sitting at the piano - like when she won in 2003 - and yes, she's got the #SanremoArcobaleno with her. Fantastic vocals, blues song with big backing vocals. Familiar sounding yet fresh at the same time. Me likes.
PopRap in Italian and Napoletan about emigrants. With piano and acoustic guitar. Not very original but kinda nice anyways. At least the first listening.
Patty celebrates her 50th anniversary in business here. She was invited as a guest of honor but she preferred to be in the competition. Oh well, this is one of the best songs in the festival no doubt. Only her voice and way of singing is something I have never liked. But the song is great! And excellent performance otherwise! (Forget the botox....)
Scanu joins the #SanremoArcobaleno, too. His song is a ballad and very melodic, very Italian. Maybe a bit over performed and I may need another listening to decided where this lands. But not bad. Not at all.
Tonight's even more rainbow as Michielin joins in with her bracelet. But why she's dressed as granny? Or is it boarding school uniform gone wrong? The song is very catchy pop ballad. Not very original I'm afraid. I'm wondering if the studio version is more modern? Rather repetitive in the end.
Standing ovation and memebers of orchestra in tears. And rightly so.
"Don't forget music is like life - it must be experienced together!"
Vlosest thing to dance we get in Sanremo, a bit like Nek last year. Ex-Dear Jack doesn't manage to lift this song up like Nek did with his last year. I spent 3 minutes waiting for the explosion that never came. And it's not only Alessio's fault. The song goes on and on .....
They are apparently clsoing their long career so this was a good occasion to throw all the unused songs or their refrains together and here's the result. Choruses after choruses. Sadly they have come 3rd and 2nd in the previous occasions so be afraid.... Humor. It's a difficult thing.
I don't know what that was but I'm not sure I want to hear it again. Maybe....
Annalisa in long white dress and red hair. Half spoken song with banging piano, takes ages to get anywhere. A bit screamy performance. Not sure about this one either.
This was quite nice midtempo song. At least with the first hearing.
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