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Loredana is a judge in "The Voice Senior" now. Here in Italy we already imagined that she would not participate in Sanremo 2022.sangiovanni
Mahmood x Blanco
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The fact Italy are hosting ESC has pulled out some big guns.This could be the best SR in history.If Elisa has a song though she will take some beating.Italy will want their ESC entry to be world class,and Elisa is that.Top drawer artists,utter class who could storm the jury and televote.The problem is Italy could do the ESC double if Elisa has the song.Who beats her will need something superb.The distance between this line up and Melodifestivalen shows how the ESC sands change over time.
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I don't think Italy will double the ESC but, if the "right song" comes out of Sanremo 2022, the "Top 10" is possible. This would be nice because the "host country curse" of the latest ESC editions would be broken. Italy is still evaluating whether the ESC investment will bear fruit. If the public reacts well and tourism increases, then Italy can aspire to win some other edition.
Everyone is excited and some shocked by the choices of some singers who will participate in the Sanremo Festival while I am really surprised by Ana Mena's participation ... she is Spanish! Finally the Sanremo Festival honors, after many years, what has always been its original goal: to be "the Italian song festival" (no “Only Italian singers song festival”). In the past, many foreign artists have participated in the Sanremo Festival and have achieved good results. These participations by foreign artists (solo or paired with an Italian singer) is a very strong recording technique. On the one hand, Sanremo, the Italian song, our singers and Italy are at the center of the lights of the world and foreign singers can enter our music charts and get more success and money.
Everyone is excited and some shocked by the choices of some singers who will participate in the Sanremo Festival while I am really surprised by Ana Mena's participation ... she is Spanish! Finally the Sanremo Festival honors, after many years, what has always been its original goal: to be "the Italian song festival" (no “Only Italian singers song festival”). In the past, many foreign artists have participated in the Sanremo Festival and have achieved good results. These participations by foreign artists (solo or paired with an Italian singer) is a very strong recording technique. On the one hand, Sanremo, the Italian song, our singers and Italy are at the center of the lights of the world and foreign singers can enter our music charts and get more success and money.
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I wish you goodnight 
with one of the songs of one of the participants of Sanremo, Elisa
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with one of the songs of one of the participants of Sanremo, Elisa:
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It's been a pleasure fixing this. No need to be so humble, this is Italy we're talking about.
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I thank you for your kind clarification, for the respect and high esteem you have of Italy and Sanremo, HayashiM.
My humility has reasons:
1) Many extraordinary artists participate in the ESC and nothing is foreseeable. Never let your guard down thinking you have a strong musical panorama.
2) Italy must always fight to reach important positions. We don't have "historical alliances" and the jury still doesn't love us fully. If we bring a not strong artist and song… the risk is what happened with Emma Marrone and Francesca Michielin…
3) We Italians, in our DNA, are always superstitious. We never think we have victory in our pocket.
I wish a good "Top 10" because it would mean continuing to be a nation that brings quality songs.
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Disgusting list of Sanremo-participants, as usual.
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Awesome list. Damn happy to see LRDL, Mahmood and Irama back, especially Irama, because Covid clearly handicapped him last time. I'm really thinking he could have done so much better with a song like La Genesi del Tuo Colore (which became my go-to karaoke song btw) without his isolation.
Really delighted to see Donatella Rettore, which i discovered recently. She is fire
Really delighted to see Donatella Rettore, which i discovered recently. She is fire
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Mamma Mia, Elisa at Sanremo! 
He won the festival in 2001 with this wonderful song
I can't believe it, it would be a perfect representative of Italy at Eurovision.
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He won the festival in 2001 with this wonderful song
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Early Sanremo 2022 Odds
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I want Amadeus as "" vita natural durante"" Sanremo artistic director 
The 2022 cast is perfect. So many good options. Love it.
Qween Elisa
above all.
Than Mahmood and Blanco, LRDL, Irama, Sangiovanni, Noemi, Giusy Ferreri, Rettore e Ilditonellapiaga.
Elisa would kick all the boxes, powerful voice, contemporary music writing, charisma and huge transversal popularity.
Can't wait to have more notices about the songs when Amadeus will present them just for the press.
The 2022 cast is perfect. So many good options. Love it.
Qween Elisa
above all.Than Mahmood and Blanco, LRDL, Irama, Sangiovanni, Noemi, Giusy Ferreri, Rettore e Ilditonellapiaga.
Elisa would kick all the boxes, powerful voice, contemporary music writing, charisma and huge transversal popularity.
Can't wait to have more notices about the songs when Amadeus will present them just for the press.
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Sanremo 2022: i Jalisse fanno ascoltare la canzone scartata dal Festival
On-air con Anna e Sergio, Fabio Ricci e Alessandra Drusian hanno parlato della loro venticinquesima esclusione dal Festival.
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Bye Melodifestivalen!
The full list for Sanremo 2022:
Sanremo 2022: la lista ufficiale dei 22 artisti nella 72ª edizione del Festival - EIN
La lista ufficiale del 22 artisti e brani in gara nella 72esima edizione del Festival di Sanremo.eurovisionin.com
Melodifestivalen has turned into a parody of itself unfortunately, I would love for Sweden to have a song contest / festival that is a relevant part of the Swedish music scene similar to what Sanremo is in Italy, but one can just dream.
Mostly looking forward to Giusy and Mahmood, but other names look interesting too (but some I know too little about yet). Everybody is raving over Elisa, I checked some of her back-catalog and while some songs are pretty fine, she seems kinda basic to me so not sure what's so special?
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The Melodifestivalen remains and will always remain a very successful festival and with a speed that Sanremo will never have. Sanremo is only now starting to remove a little dust but the show will always have a monstrous time. The problem is that the Italian music festival is a showcase, a variety of Italian culture, a show to make sure to advertise and orchestate various elements other than music. The Melodifestivalen will always be a "young and lively" festival and will always be followed by a public that loves it very much. In Italy, however, as another EscYOUnited member wrote, the public will always consider the festival and the list of singers "to be disgusted". Why do many Italians do this? It's a tradition (many don't really think badly of Sanremo but to say that Sanremo is beautiful is for losers xD). In light of all this, it is impossible to compare two festivals of different speeds and even cultures.
The only flaw I find in the Melodifestivalen is only one: it has settled too much on a concept of industrial music (which was part of the great Swedish success that was copied a little by everyone). Beautiful sounds, captivating lights, intriguing dances, songs sung in English but ... little soul ... little feeling ... Yet Sweden is able to provide artists who can give much more! It only takes a little courage to change just "just enough" and Sweden can go back to being the "Brazil of European music".
As for the singers you don't know yet (and trust me, many of us Italians don't know them too), it's the "rejuvenating" work I was talking about earlier. Giving opportunities to new artists and new sounds serves to give a wider breath to our musical landscape and serves to bring a more varied public closer to Sanremo.
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I hear you, just to clarify what I mean a bit (which I also stated on the forum before):
When I look at Sanremo, it's more how it seems to be (at least to an outsider) an active force in Italian music and a representation of that market and for that market first and foremost. It doesn't try to be something else (a tool for Eurovision or a musical bubble unrelated to the current music scene of the country which Melodifestivalen currently is) and also manages to attract big and popular local names (which MF is unable to do with its current approach).
What I don't like with Sanremo, and here I agree with you that Melodifestivalen is better, is the odd and lengthy structure and format, the questionable juries and voting system (which still to a larger extent seems to favor male and/-or conservative entries, even if it has become better lately), the random cover evening thrown into the mix etc.
I mean there are pros and cons with both, but if we look at what actually matters in the end and that is the music it produces, then yes I think Sanremo is these days a far stronger and more relevant selection than Melodifestivalen (see more previous points).
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