Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Tonight in Sanremo 2012 we will have an interesting evening. The four remaining Sanremosocial or Newcomers will battle it out and we will know who will follow the footsteps of likes of Eros Ramazzotti, Laura Pausini and Andrea Bocelli, just to name a few, not forgetting Raphael Gualazzi. My vote goes for marco Guazzone but propably nothing on earth can stop Alessandro Casillo and his army of teenage girls with mobil phones... Luckily he's too young for Eurovision! But Guazzone and Mou could be possible choices. Watch their music videos by clicking the song titles. I will be blogging live again tonight so stay tuned! ALESSANDRO CASILLO – E’ vero MARCO GUAZZONE & STAG - Guasto IO HO SEMPRE VOGLIA – Incredibile ERICA MOU – Nella vasca da bagno del tempo The Artisti will perform their songs with an alternative arrangement and with partners. And we have everything from drag queen Platinette to DJ/remixer/producer Fargetta, names like Gianluca grignani, Max Gazze and Alessandra Amo...

This year RAI decided to use the Facebook for the newcomers selection. Hundreds of hopefuls sent in their videos and people voted and voted. Yesterday the six lucky ones were revealed, chosen by a jury dispite the "online voting" (actually the same is going on in Finland's UMK. Let's see how that goes...). There was fury and cries for scandal seconds after the announcement and now a famous Italian TV personality Enzo Iacchetti has sent an open letter to Gianni Morandi. It pretty much explains and sums up the whole affair: Dear Gianni Morandi, you're ignorant to the music of today. You have stayed in the days of Fisarmonica and yet you are the head of the jury that chose the artists for the newcomers in Sanremo. You and RAI have done this crap called SanremoSocial, so that the users of social medias (who are becoming crucial to the future of music) could vote for the songs. Ok, the most voted songs have not been selected. You have fucked us all. Don't you th...

SanremoSocial has brought us the six finalists in Sanremo's newcomers selection, and one of these coulöd be the Italian artist for Eurovision 2012 in Baku as well. They will be officially presented on live TV tomorrow afternoon on Raiuno. Giulia Anania (27) from Rome - La mail che non ti ho scritto Dana Angi (18) from Latina - Incognita poesia Alessandro Casilla (15) from Milan - È vero Celeste Gaia (21) from Pavia - Carlo Marco Guazzone (23) from Rome - Guasto Erica Mou (21) from Barletta - Nella vasca da bagno del tempo And these two will join them, selected by AreaSanremo: Bidiel, a group from Catania - Sono un errore Io ho sempre voglia, a group from Bari - Incredibile You can listen the songs here . And as soon as the names were out in Facebook started floating the negative comments and cries for scandal. I must admit I didn't listen to any of the artists and follow the operation so I can't express myself but listening these eight now... Quite frankly I didn't...