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Italy ITALY 2015 - Il Volo - Grande amore

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tuorem
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Krishoes said:
That's for sure. Grande amore sounds like a song coming out from 50's or 60's... Irene songs maybe from 90's-early 00's and for this reason I say that it's old-fashioned too...
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Maybe apart from Moreno, I don't think anyone had a very current sound in San Remo. And "current" does not mean that much anyway, from a foreigner's point of view, that's how I portray Italian pop somehow and I like it when you stick to simple orchestrations and passionate-sounding choruses :mrgreen: Mi piace moltissimo. Not that I would never want to see something a little bit more out of the box coming from you, but I'm glad that you stay away from Eurotrash :lol:

Krishoes said:
I will always blame Sanremo juries until they will consist of people who have nothing to do with music or salaried by Rai, chosen among friends of the presenters or the singers.
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Come on! Being bribed is the most distinctive feature of juries. :mrgreen: Otherwise, they wouldn't be real juries.
 
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tuorem said:
Maybe apart from Moreno, I don't think anyone had a very current sound in San Remo.
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That's the """problem""" of the 99,9% italian mainstream songs today (and yesterday and tomorrow) :D
 
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GWTW1939 said:
Grande amore was written specifically for Sanremo, although it was Sanremo of 12 years ago :lol: Eurovision NEVER entered the minds of anyone involved with the song until it actually won and they were invited to participate xshrug
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Well, as we saw this year, artists entered the festival with various purposes in mind: get known in Italy, go to ESC, sell a cd republication, win the festival, simply sing on a mythical stage, make a comeback, etc. and the songs reflect that imo ("Grande Amore", "Fatti Avanti Amore", "Io Sono Una Finestra", "Oggi Ti Parlo Cosi" & "I Soliti Idioti" for instance wouldn't all be considered ESC material).

I'm not criticizing Il Volo's ambitions, just saying that with this song, it was clearly meant to go to Eurovision, unlike others. As for the "sound", yeah, I do think the song fits perfectly the criteria required for Eurovision, I sincerely felt a discrepancy between this and the other songs, hence the previous post I wrote.
 
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Krishoes said:
Irene Grandi, a famous singer here in Italy with many hits on her career. She was competing in Sanremo 2015 with Il Volo and I think that also her song is old fashioned and doesn't reflect current italian music (although I like it) so... I don't know what to say about her statements :lol:
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There is an anecdote Piero Barone told a journalist in an interview. Irene Grandi asked him if perhaps he was near her room in the hotel. As Barone said yes, she asked him stop singing his repertory while having the shower. She said: shut up, please!
So, it seems that she was really bothered after all....
 
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Well it was never going to be an easy task to edit the song for a 3 minute eurovision version but I am sad to see the chorus really butchered nevertheless:(
It lacks that killer punch and sounds rushed now. Maybe they should have shortened the first verse instead I think.
 
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[MENTION=12332]kamc[/MENTION] Are you basing your opinion off the shortened version posted on ESCToday? I'm disappointed too if it's real, but I'm not sure it is. It hasn't been posted anywhere else, one of the edits sounds kind of badly made, they don't cite any specific sources, and the version they have up has cut the song in entirely different places to what the lyrics on Eurovision.tv show. I guess it's possible that it's true nonetheless, but for now I want to hold out hope.

Or did you see it somewhere else?
 
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ZoboCamel said:
[MENTION=12332]kamc[/MENTION] Are you basing your opinion off the shortened version posted on ESCToday? I'm disappointed too if it's real, but I'm not sure it is. It hasn't been posted anywhere else, one of the edits sounds kind of badly made, they don't cite any specific sources, and the version they have up has cut the song in entirely different places to what the lyrics on Eurovision.tv show. I guess it's possible that it's true nonetheless, but for now I want to hold out hope.

Or did you see it somewhere else?
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No that is the one alright I was referring to from ESCToday.
You give me hope though that it may be false!
 
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It has to be fake. Gianluca even mentioned in an interview that his part was cut. I'm sure they've kept the chorus. If that was the real 3:00 version, I would be crushed.
 
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Yes its a fake ;)

Gianluca's second verse and the repeat "Che sei il mio unico grande amore" at the end were both eliminated according to the official lyrics on Eurovision.tv while they are clearly still there on the fake that has been circulating around recently.

We won't hear the real 3 minute version until the CD comes out xcry1
 

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There's a chance that the 3 minute version floating around is the real thing. It sounds very professional. I'd say if it's real then it'll be a case like Cascada, who had two different 3 min edits - one for the CD and one for the performance.
 
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Peter30 said:
There's a chance that the 3 minute version floating around is the real thing. It sounds very professional. I'd say if it's real then it'll be a case like Cascada, who had two different 3 min edits - one for the CD and one for the performance.
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It is fake. The part that was cut is the second verse, the one sung by Gianluca Ginoble, the baritone: this is official.
 

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Bradamante said:
It is fake. The part that was cut is the second verse, the one sung by Gianluca Ginoble, the baritone: this is official.
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Yes I know. I've seen the official lyrics, I've heard the comments. There's still nothing to say that those refer to the version they will be performing and that this is the version that will be appearing on the CD.

OBVIOUSLY this may not be the case, but it could be.
 
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Not sure if it's been posted here before, but I think that this video is much closer to what the actual 3 minute version will be. It doesn't claim to be official, and some of the editing is shoddy, but it shows that by cutting out the second verse and half of the intro, the song becomes three minutes long, and flows well. This fits with the published lyrics too.


Technically it's still two seconds over, but I'm sure they can fix that easily enough - it'd be under the limit with a 1-2% tempo increase, for example, which wouldn't really be noticeable.
 
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