Tonight's the first night of the 74th Sanremo and unlike the previous years all 30 acts will perform tonight. Prepaire yourself for a long long night! How the voting is tonight and the coming night you can read in detail here.
I will follow tonight and comment and judge the songs live so do come back and join in the fun. Before the live show from Tatro Ariston di Sanremo at 20.40 CET we have a Primafestival at 20.30 CET. It all should end at 1.30 CET (believe it if you dare!) and it's followed by Via Raidue! ... Viva Sanremo until 2.25 CET. That's six hours for tonight, lol.
Tonight's running order has been revealed and it is below. Apparently the last ones tonight will be the first ones tomorrow and day after tomorrow in reverse order. Maybe. (In brackets the odds this afternoon. You may notice all the favorites (1-10) are more or less grouped together in the first half of the show, with some midtable entries (11-20) in between and the underdogs have to perform late late night (21-30))
20.45 We start punctual! After military salute outside Teatro Ariston we enter with Marco Mengoni who welcomes us to the 74th festival and gets thunderous applause before enters Amadeus.
Very good start for the evening. I like her and I like this song. Looks fab, too. 8
Not my cup of tea not cappuccino. Not fan of his voice nor the song. just indifferent. Yawn. 4
A touch of Latin, very catchy ay ay ay chorus. I'm pleasantly surprised! Huge applause. I suspect she'll do a lot better than the odds predict beforehand. 8
Well, what to say? Pop punk. Probably they are supposed to be bad but they are quite adorable. And indeed they came with an important message, that of anti-suicide. Music saves lifes. 4
Rather classic Sanremo ballad. Beautiful ballad and strings but... a touch of gospel in choirs. Nothing to get excited about. 6
Quite nice Alien pop, but further listening will tell where this goes. Now I was jamming along 8
Maybe he isn't at his best vocals tonight. Rather typical Sanremo rock ballad. Are the odds so high only because they are finally taking part? 6
Ok, her string of hits continues (1.300 million streams the past years) and yes, Euroboys are screaming this for Eurovision..... I'm still at 8 for now.
OK. I'm a fan, and this is just like I like Mahmood. Or rather a nice mix of his best songs. And it looks like he's really having the time of his life this time! Not sure about the outfit though. 9
Very good, the Diodato I like and excellent performance with a touch of his Turin interval act. 9
Off to the outside stage in Piazza Colombo with Lazza, whose Cenere is the most sold of last year's entries, beating Mengoni who beat him in the Sanremo ranking.
A tribute to late Toto Cutugno, Sanremo and Eurovision winner next.
She's a bit crazy as the title suggests and this song is so her that you can't not like it. And people love her in Ariston. 8
Not really for me, I love it's in Napoletan but I expected a bit more originality from this streaming King. 4
This feels like her outtake on Mengoni's L'essenziale. On the toehr hand a very typical Sanremo ballad. I've never been a fan of hers but this quite pleasant. 8
Ok this is fun. Great arrangement vintage. Me likes, even if this isn't Italodisco 9
Oh she's Italian ABREU! She's really going for it. A sure hit and something original and different. No wonder she's #2 in odds, and she really has the momemtum working for her. Dardust already has Luxemburg, will he have also Italy for Malmö? 9
Well, I do like melodies, and voices, and piano. Classic ballad. Can't help it. 8
A bit Madame but.... Well.... Not so bad in the end. Her enthusiasm and joy was a lot. 6
Well, I love Ricchi e Poveri, my reason to learn Italian back in the days. This is fun and I'm so happy they are back after all this time. What can I give? 8 for now. And yes, people loved them!
Emma a little uptempo like many others. Not still quite convinced. She's last of the ones the odds consider. The rest tonight will be a run through 7
Boredom. That's all I can say 4
I liked him last year, like most everyone as he finished 3rd. This now says nothing. 5
Not punk at all. Fun and colorful, and they even had a chaotic coreography. Likable. 6
Elegant ballad, a bit British. This might be a grower 6
Nah, not for me. His outfit was the best part. 4
Quite strange, catchy funny refrain, the rest so so. 6
This one I want to hear in studio version, now it was a bit too eager. 6
How come this is last in odds. I think it was pretty nice pop song. Not reggaeton as his usual ones. 8
Melodic and nice, no gimmicks. A proper song. 8
Screams of a summer hit. Very un-italian somehow. 7
Another one to hear on studio version as this wasn't so great. And it's tonight's ugliest outfit. At least it's not black. Then again it's 1.51 at night. 5
And tonight's Top-5 is voted by media in press center:
1. Loredana Bertè
2. Angelina Mango
3. Annalisa
4. Diodato
5. Mahmood
It's 2.00. Buona notte!
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