Italy ITALY 2023 - Marco Mengoni - Due Vite

[ESC United Mod Team]

 

[Kant1]

Call me delusional, but I still fully believe Lazza could've won the entire contest (with the correct staging, ofc). Same with Madame. At the very least both would've been a lock for top 5. Both are so much, much more contemporary than any song actually competing in ESC this year imo.

Due vita is still top three of the year for me though, one of the only ones I never skip when it comes on, love it dearly. The rehearsal clips confirm it, happy they're not overcooking it. Just hope he remembers to look into the camera more, since his effortless charisma is arguably his greatest asset (the only one who can rival Loreen in terms of stage presence I think, you can tell how experienced he is).

Madame was my fav, but I think Marco will do well no matter what

 

[Milos-BC]

Yet another song that I liked the most on the first listening and then the impression was fading more and more every time I would play it again. I still like it but I am not crazy about it. Marco's previous ESC entry was much better, no doubt.

5 points.

 

[empo21]

Dear sir, we've got vegetables and fruits in the menu today

Blanca Paloma out there living everyone's dream

 

[sucof]

now I would like to say one thing, let's admit we were to blame for the kinetic sun (which worked) but does this year's stage really seem something more innovative than last year?
with this I don't want to attack Great Britain's work, but if one doesn't want to risk it (as they did this year) just build a small stage with 3 led walls.
Maybe we Italians were the idiots who wanted to dare and the gods in heaven punished us

 

[sucof]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1655896592438665217

 

[nudiecrudi]

now I would like to say one thing, let's admit we were to blame for the kinetic sun (which worked) but does this year's stage really seem something more innovative than last year?
with this I don't want to attack Great Britain's work, but if one doesn't want to risk it (as they did this year) just build a small stage with 3 led walls.
Maybe we Italians were the idiots who wanted to dare and the gods in heaven punished us

It functions, everyone is happy. It doesn't matter if is small or nothing special.
The italian concept was stunning, obviously something went wrong. We'll never know where was the problem.

 

[nudiecrudi]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1655896592438665217

Thank you for sharing.
Elegant and charming.
I'm very confident, Marco will be top 10 for sure.

 

[sucof]

too bad he never looks at the camera, it would take a machine gun above the camera crane to force him to do it!!!

 

[Chorizo]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1655896592438665217

It looks a little suicidal at first, but then it all turns out fine. (Don't try this at home, kids!)

 

[Chorizo]

It functions, everyone is happy. It doesn't matter if is small or nothing special.
The italian concept was stunning, obviously something went wrong. We'll never know where was the problem.

I think the problem is that the stage was designed by this person:

But at least Italy tried to give us something new. The black hole sun was something new for sure and the stage was much talked about last year, so in a sense they succeeded. This year, the stage doesn't look very ambitious. It's fine and everything is working as it should, but I haven't seen it do anything that other stages haven't done before. It just looks like a safe choice. Maybe they rather wanted to be safe after Italy was sorry.

 

[Preuss]

1st half looks already crowded, so fingers crossed he gets a good draw. But I think he will stand out anyway… as long as he doesn’t perform from 1-5.

I really liked the performance as a whole. Definitely one of Italy’s better stagings (and that says a lot)

 

[MS.]

Just watched the full youtube video and this was simply amazing.
His voice live is litterally miles better than anyone else in this competition. All the rest can be shaky sometimes. Maybe Blanca Paloma is the only other one who can rival him.
He doesn't even miss a note and this while delivering it with a lot of emotion.
I can see this ending top 3 in the jury now or at least top 5 and i am not joking. Really really hope i am not wrong.

 

[midnightsun]

It’s still in my top 5, I still love him, I still think he is a great singer and I still want this to do as well as possible BUT, I‘m sorry to say that, I‘m totally still NOT sold on that performance. What happened to the NF performance? Why such a glitter outfit? Why does he look so tired? (Other than that he probably is, but you know what I mean…)
I‘m kinda disappointed.
Not for myself, like I said, I still love it so much and if it was up to me I would love to see this winning.
But I wanted him thrilling the public! I want the whole crowd and people at home at his feet! I want him to spray positive energy.

 

[nudiecrudi]

too bad he never looks at the camera, it would take a machine gun above the camera crane to force him to do it!!!

Now we know that he looks directly in the camera for the first 20 seconds of the song. The camera is fixed on his face
The performance was stunning. Couldn't ask for more. In the middle of all that cirque du soleil show at least someone who really sings professionally

 

[nudiecrudi]

But I wanted him thrilling the public! I want the whole crowd and people at home at his feet! I want him to spray positive energy.

He will do it in the final as he did in Sanremo
His performance during the final night was the best one of the week, he got so emotional.
I think for the ESC final he knows that has to give more.
At least I hope.

 

[sucof]

I think the problem is that the stage was designed by this person:

But at least Italy tried to give us something new. The black hole sun was something new for sure and the stage was much talked about last year, so in a sense they succeeded. This year, the stage doesn't look very ambitious. It's fine and everything is working as it should, but I haven't seen it do anything that other stages haven't done before. It just looks like a safe choice. Maybe they rather wanted to be safe after Italy was sorry.

 

[shameless]

Is it just me or does he come across as either very nervous or arrogant most of the times? In his introduction yesterday he looked very uncomfortable. Before the semi 1 there was a show where one of our german commentators was drooling over him and made other contestants from this year to help looking for him on one of the parties. It was really cute and not as annoying as it could've been. However when he finally found him, Marco had this "get away from me"-mood.

 

[Etanna]

Is it just me or does he come across as either very nervous or arrogant most of the times? In his introduction yesterday he looked very uncomfortable. Before the semi 1 there was a show where one of our german commentators was drooling over him and made other contestants from this year to help looking for him on one of the parties. It was really cute and not as annoying as it could've been. However when he finally found him, Marco had this "get away from me"-mood.

Maybe he's just introverted and needs more time to think through his answers properly before responding. It's not the best quality to have when you need to do a lot of 20 second interviews But I like it, I don't find him arrogant at all, maybe nervous and in search for words (either due to introvercy or language barrier)

 

[Ajeje Brazorf]

Is it just me or does he come across as either very nervous or arrogant most of the times? In his introduction yesterday he looked very uncomfortable. Before the semi 1 there was a show where one of our german commentators was drooling over him and made other contestants from this year to help looking for him on one of the parties. It was really cute and not as annoying as it could've been. However when he finally found him, Marco had this "get away from me"-mood.

Marco is a "Cha Cha Cha" kind of guy, if you know what I mean. He doesn't like interviews because he is a really humble but really introverted person, he said it more than once in various interviews that he is not totally in comfort when he is opening with other people because he needs some time to deal with his introverted nature. So he may leave that impression, but it's obviously not his fault...

 

[Chorizo]

This year’s stage looks like the fixed version of last year’s stage. The difference is that they use the LED panels in the back to do what the kinetic sun was supposed to do and it’s actually working as intended this year. Most importantly, the panels can turn so fast that you can use both sides during the same performance, as demonstrated by Finland. In many ways this is what last year could have been. The stage looks great this year and everything is working as planned, but it’s an evolutionary concept and not something entirely new. So, I’d say Italy had a great idea last year, but it took the UK to implement this idea competently this year.