Eurovision review: Italy
Mar. 30th, 2011 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
passionpopItaly may not have been in Eurovision for over a decade, but now that they are back, they go straight into the final. This is not by virtue of their musical potential, but because of their money. They are the third biggest financial contributer to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU - who run the Eurovision Song Contest), and any Italian will tell you that money will get you anything, it will even get a prostitute to tell a judge that she is really just a dirty slvt - well most pros will. Money makes the world go round.
it is nice that Berlusconi has let Italy compete in Eurovision again, even though it is broadcast on RAI who, despite being state controlled, compete with the networks he owns. I am sure the small ratings drop wont affect his earnings though.
I have been waiting 14 years to review Italy, and this is that they have sent... it is not that it is bad... except that bit at the end of the chorus where the vocals are sung to sound like a trumpet which fvcken hurts my fvcken ears, it isnt bad. It is not something I would buy, but I could see it getting a fair amount of 'the grey vote', and whatever other votes Berusconi can buy.
I am a little over Big band, it has been done and done and done. I liked the 2007 entry from Germany much better than this and that came 19th so what fate will this song have. It will likely, undeservedly, do better than Germany did back then thanks to the help of San Marino, who coincidently returned this year, but without votes from the blocs, you wont get too far.
The Sentimental vote is Italy's best hope. It was a sentimental Europe that have been crying for Italy to return to Eurovision, and it is Sentimentality that made me post Domenico Modugno, though it is not Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu, because everyone does Volare
it is nice that Berlusconi has let Italy compete in Eurovision again, even though it is broadcast on RAI who, despite being state controlled, compete with the networks he owns. I am sure the small ratings drop wont affect his earnings though.
I have been waiting 14 years to review Italy, and this is that they have sent... it is not that it is bad... except that bit at the end of the chorus where the vocals are sung to sound like a trumpet which fvcken hurts my fvcken ears, it isnt bad. It is not something I would buy, but I could see it getting a fair amount of 'the grey vote', and whatever other votes Berusconi can buy.
I am a little over Big band, it has been done and done and done. I liked the 2007 entry from Germany much better than this and that came 19th so what fate will this song have. It will likely, undeservedly, do better than Germany did back then thanks to the help of San Marino, who coincidently returned this year, but without votes from the blocs, you wont get too far.
The Sentimental vote is Italy's best hope. It was a sentimental Europe that have been crying for Italy to return to Eurovision, and it is Sentimentality that made me post Domenico Modugno, though it is not Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu, because everyone does Volare