ITALY: SANREMO 2020 QUARTA SERATA/FOURTH NIGHT - LIVE BLOGGING AND COMMENTING

Sanremo 2020 continues its almost unexpected success. The third night scored an average share of 54,5% or 9,8 million viewers, the highest since 1997 and 8% more than last year. Tonight Amadeus with Fiorello and Tiziano Ferro will present the show with presenter Antonella Clerici and Francesca Sofia Novello, a model and Moto GP champion Valentino Rossi's girlfriend.

The guest stars will be Dua Lipa, Ghali, Johnny Dorelli and Gianna Nannini.

The Big will be voted tonight by accredited press only. and their votes will be added to the ones from previous nights.

The Newcvomers will have their final tonight and they will be voted by Demoscopic jury (33%), accredited press (33%) and televote (34%), with the usual duel system.

Ok, we started the night with the official ranking of the three nights and it isn't apparently as simple maths as it seemed in my pevious post as Gabbani is in the lead still!

1. Gabbani, 2. Le Vibrazioni, 3. Pelù, 4. Tosca, 5. Pinguini, 6. Diodato, 7. Elodie, 8. Masini, 9. Grandi, 10. Zarrillo, 11. Levante, 12. Anastasio, 13. Urso, 14. Gualazzi, 15. Jannacci, 16. Nigiotti, 17. Anfi, 18. Lauro, 19. Pavone, 20. Rancore, 21. Riki, 22. Elettra, 23. Junior Cally, 24. Bugo e Morgan

First Newcomers duel follows immediately and both Tecla and Marco perform with more security and relax. Very different looks and songs. I won't even try to guess, Tecla making it this far was already a surprise.... and yes, she goes to the final with her very classic ballad.
Also in second duel a classic Sanremo (with Lion King ending) versus something a bit different with autotune. I may have a preference for Fasma.... who seems extremely nervous again. And Leo wins with the smallest possible difference. The Newcomers final will be very traditional then.
Why I have a feeling Tecla is going to win this? She'd be the first female winner since Arisa in 2009. Or will Leo's surname have better on her?

Tecla Insolia - 8 Marzo 55%

Marco Sentieri - Billy Blu 45%

Gassmann - Vai bene cosi 50,1%

Fasma - Per sentirmi vivo 49.9%

Recap and advertising, the Newcomers final is on....... Of course we won't have time for them to sing their songs again because there are so many other guests and things coming in the next 4-5 hours.... No further comment. It's only the final of Nuove proposte of the Festival della canzone Italiana, who cares?

... meanwhile Sanremorai publishes and then cancels this...... Think what you want....

Eh no, the winner is Leo Gassman with 52,5%. Meanwhile the Critic's awards go to Eugenio in Via Gioia (Mia Martini) and Tecla (Lucia Dalla)

22.01 starts the Big competition for tonight.....

Paolo Jannacci – Voglio parlarti adesso **

22.09 Ok, one Big down, let's have something else, like Tiziano Ferro...

Fiorello joins later for Finalmente tu and a gay kiss. Che scandalo!

22.19 Entra Antonella Clerici. Un mito.

22.29 Ok, let's have more guests.... Dua Lipa now. To be honest I have no idea about her music and after this I don't have any urge to go and check her out. Yawn. The back to competition with Rancore...

Rancore – Eden ****

Giordana Angi – Come mia madre **

Francesco Gabbani – Viceversa *****

Raphael Gualazzi – Carioca****

Pinguini Tattici Nucleari – Ringo Starr ***

Anastasio – Rosso di rabbia **

Panico, panico..... #twitterdown! But incredibly we have had six songs in a row without major interruptions! And after the other co-hostess enters we go on.... Hard to believe but true!

Elodie – Andromeda *****

23.20 Re-enter Tiziano Ferro with Luca Barbarossa's winner Portami a ballare......

Riki – Lo sappiamo entrambi **

It was all going too fast so let's have Fiorello on stage again. I like him but am I getting a bit too huge dose of him this week? Nah..... right after he goes on the how older men pee and other problems as he's turning 60 and .... well.... Gotta love him! Piscismo!

23.45 Enter Tony Renis.... Mr Quando quando quando, Grande grande grande etc.... Quando quando quando must be the most known Italian song with Volare, and the most used one in American movies was told. After that an hommage to legendary journalist Vincenzo Mollica, 30 years in Sanremo and now he's last one working for Rai....

... and then yet another guest star, Ghali. Actually I do like some of his songs. But can't help wondering why Mahmood is not here, or is it he's in America performing?

00.24 we go on.....

Diodato – Fai rumore ****

Irene Grandi – Finalmente io **

Achille Lauro – Me ne frego **

Piero Pelù – Gigante ****

00.55 Another guest act: Gianna Nannini with Coez.... OMG, she belts out Ragazzo dell'Europa, a very very old favorite of mine. All is forgiven. Sing Gianna sing!

Tosca – Ho amato tutto ****

Michele Zarrillo – Nell’estasi o nel fango ****

Junior Cally – No grazie **

Le Vibrazioni – Dov’è **

Alberto Urso – Il sole ad est **

Levante – Tikibombom ***

Bugo e Morgan – Sincero * DISQUALIFIED
Morgan changed the lyrics adressing them against Bugo, who did the only decent thing and walked out the stage.... #drama

Rita Pavone – Niente (Resilienza 74) *****

Enrico Nigiotti – Baciami adesso *

Elettra Lamborghini – Musica (e il resto scompare) **

Marco Masini – Il confronto **

02.10 It's official: Morgan and Bugo have been disqualified and the competition end here. Soon we will get the ranking of tonight voted by the press. One can already imagine it will be quite different from the one by Demoscopic jury. The votes ad to the total of previous three nights and the new full ranking will be revealed tomorrow in the beginning of the show......

And indeedsome major changes: Diodato winner tonight followed by Gabbani so he's certainly still number one. Rancore jumps to 7th, Achille Lauro 9th, Alberto Urso drops last, Zarrillo 20th......

2.24 (or 3.24 for me). The end. Good night!

ESC 2016 WISH LIST: MARGARET FOR POLAND

Małgorzata Jamroży aka Margaret has also been tipped for Eurovision and apparently she did turn it down but she'd be perfect. She's got a look and persona you can't unnotice nor forget, she's got hit songs, she has been voted or nominated for everything from Trendy artist to the Hope of the Year, Fashion Icon and Glamour Woman of the year besides the usual best video, song, album, debut..... Oh she's also a fashion designer! She's very clever with social medias and would surely use it to her advantage if selected for Stockholm 2016. Her debut album is titled Add the blonde , do we need to say more? Except it includes mostly Swedish written pop tunes like Tell me how are ya , Wasted , Start a fire and Heartbeat . And of course her debut single and internationally noticed Thank you very much that you can enjoy below with all its anti-textil feel. I think she's Eurovision perfection, she's cheeky and fun, can we have her?

SONGS OF THE YEAR 2015: #5 KRISTA SIEGFRIDS - ON & OFF

Krista Siegfrids is delivering nice pop tunes one after another and this one is particularly catchy and soon you will be singing along..... Hopefully her Melodifestivalen entry will be equally good!

ESC 2016 BELARUS: NAKED WITH WOLVES?

Today's funniest Eurovision related story comes from Belarus. Some sources claim Ivan wants to perform on stage naked and with live wolf or wolves. It surely would be a first on Eurovision stage! We have seen some forgotten underwear over the years, and some cardbox animals though..... Is it time to take things a bit further? No, according the rules live animals are not allowed, and Eurovision being a family show nudity won't do either. (It seems to be ok to be half naked if you are a dancer though..... )

CAROLA'S BOOBS STEAL THE SHOW, SVT APOLOGIES

Update! Another thing got Swedes talking last night: Carola's boobs when she was giving away an award. This is not the first time her boombs cause headlines; her misfortunate adventures in the 80's in Japan wer explained with her boobs being too big for Japanese market. Ok.... Or was it the song ? Anyways, Carola apologies and says she thinks the dress is stylish and elegant (even her friends said so) and she's a mature woman in her 40s, not a 16-year-old girl and looks like one. The Swedish Oscars, Guldbagge awards were given out last night. Carola was there as a guest star to sing Barbra Streisand's The way we were when honoring the movie stars who passed away during 2012. However, the cameras were too much on Carola, not on the stars showed in photos in the background and that upset many viewers as that part of the show was to celebrate them, not Carola. Oh well... The producer of the show tells in Aftonbladet the part of the show was made the sam...

Russia recycles the video

Here is the video for Alexey's previous hit Бам Бам! and here is the video for his Eurovision 2011 entry Get you as Alex Sparrow as he likes to be called now abraod. Looks like he potreys the new rich Russia well.... The only problem is that he can't play the bad part convincingly not even a second. And did I say the song is crap? And of course as he is a Russian star he must have nude fotos of him flotaing around internet trying to be sexy and he fails there, too, big time. If you are not bad nor sexy you shouldn't push it. Maybe he should stick to singing jolly little numbers like the Kalinka rip off instead....

Regina Lund - naked and censored

Regina Lund's new video Jag är osynlig was censored by Youtube only minutes after it had been uploaded. In the video she was playing a female Jesus who gets crusified in the end. "I was shocked!" she says. "There's nothing more naked in it as in every church! It's ok to have naked man hanging on the wall but my nakedness is too much on internet? ". Oh well, no comment. She's prepairing a new album Dare Regina Lund and we of course remember her from her Melodifestivalen 2007 adventure with Rainbow star .

GREECE: HELENA PAPARIZOU HITS AGAIN WITH HAIDE

Eurovision song contest 2005 winner Helena Paparizou has been enjoying Top-5 hits every year since 2003 with the exception of 2010 and 2014, this latest one being already her 27th! And Haide is charting also in Bulgaria and Finland, of all places. The catchiness of her hits has changed less over the years than her face.... Here's the English version , below the Greek version.

TIM SCHOU AND HIS NAKED GRAVITY

Tim Schou has a pretty good solo career going since he left his friends in London. He's travelling the world and relesing songs and videos. The latest one is a great track and comes with a steamy video that kinda takes away from the song really. But who's complaining. If you got it, flaunt it. Enjoy the video below. This post coming after the other Dane, Rasmus Seebach as wishlist for Eurovision. To think about it, Tim would do nicely, too. Maybe he should give it another go?

MÅNS ZELMERLÖW GETS NAKED FOR THE GOOD CAUSE

Reigning Eurovision song contest champion and the host of the next contest in May 2016 in Stockholm Mäns Zelmerlöw bares it almost all in GT following some other Eurovision stars like Blue and Jedward ( see more here ) All for the good cause of course, prostate cancer - something this blogger can also relate having experienced it in my closest circle. Nothing to laugh about. The annual Naked issue of GT or Gay Times features also several other celebrity men out of their designer fashion and stage or sports outfits. I guess Christmas came early to some fans when they can unwrap their most wished gift already now.... Maybe. But it's not the first time he gets naked.... he did so when hosting the annual QX Gala some years ago. Who knows what he and Petra have in store for us in May?!

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