Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Things are cooking also in Sanremo and it looks like Tamara Ecclestone is not going to be one of the hostesses due to her demands and unprofessionalism (I never thought a day like this would come! Hooray, there is someone RAI isn't putting up to!), and the two songs breaking the releasing date in one way or the other are both kept in the line up, namely the Loredana Bertè duet with Gigi D'Alessio, and Chiara Civelli. The Latest news is Ell/Nikki would be present in the final on February 18, 2012 and award the one and only that goes to Baku Eurovision 2012. And maybe they get to mime their song one more time? And more. Once again it seems the Italian entrant will be selected amongst the artists of one record label only, juts like Sugar last year. But it's not going to be Sugar this time around.... Confused yet? More news as they happen.... Right here.

Here we go. As soon as the song titles and artists were confirmed for Sanremo 2012 problems were here. The song by Chiara Civelli, Al posto del mondo , was already presented for the newcomers selection two years ago sung by Daniele Magro . His manager prompted to put the song online now so Chiara's song is no longer a new one. And risks disqualification. But more attention is paid to the one Respirare by Gigi D'Alessio and Loredana Bertè. They both had a snippet of 30 seconds of the song online in their respective Facebook earlier this month for a moment before they were informed that actually they were accepted to Sanremo. So, in theory this is to be disqualified as well. This follows La Berté's previous Sanremo affair four years ago when she was disqualified with her Musica e parole as it was discovered during the festival the music of the song had already been released in 1988 with different lyrics. There's also a precedent for these 30 second snippets affairs. In ...