Francesco Renga – The best of me
Consistent to the end, he doesn’t give up his stylistic signature and puts his voice into a very traditional piece. His tenth time at the Festival, which he also won with Angelo Rating 6
Chiello – I always think of you
90s rock atmosphere with pop shades. A piece that passes and goes without jolts or emotions. Rating 5
Raf – Now and forever
Love song in line with his style and with the Sanremo melodic tradition. Nothing surprising, perhaps more could have been done Rating 5.5
Rag Dolls – Stay with me
When you think of rock in Sanremo, Zitti e Buoni by Maneskin comes to mind. Well, from the only rock representatives one could expect a more gritty piece. Stay with me is a crescendo ballad, very catchy, but it twists in on itself. Vote 5.5
Leo Gassmann – Natural
The performance on the evening of the duets with Era tutto foreseen was better. This ballad is a bit too shouty and overall not very original. Rating 5
Malika Ayane – Nocturnal animals
A nice piece in a pleasantly vintage funk-r&b key that brings back the sounds of great bands like Incognito. The “return to 70” operation also works thanks to a rare vocal quality. Rating 7
Tommaso Paradiso – The romantics
A song in which he speaks to his daughter: he sings it according to his vocal canons without exaggerating the emphasis. He has his own style and he makes it clear with this song which even without a rousing chorus can easily reach the top five. “He didn’t think he could do it,” he says before leaving the final stage Rating 6
J-Ax – Italy starter pack
J Ax in country folk version has if nothing else the merit of getting a bit of adrenaline going. The piece is ironic and provocative, certainly not memorable but it makes itself heard. Sometimes “you need a bad song that goes…” He says it too. And then he puts the cowboy hat on the head of Mara Venier sitting in the audience Rating 6
LDA & AKA 7EVEN – Clandestine poems
It’s quite impressive to see two young people dealing with a piece like this. As we have written since the beginning of the Festival, there is the echo of Gigi D’Alessio’s most lively songs. But that’s another story. In any case, Ariston keeps time and dances. Rating 5
Serena Brancale – Here with me
The impression after the third performance at the Ariston remains the same: the voice is not as good as the piece. A poignant ballad dedicated to the mother that sets the Ariston audience on fire after the sharp finale. For bookmakers it has always been among the favourites. Rating 6
Patty Pravo – Opera
A wonderful foreign body at the Festival. Class, personality, charisma and a vibrant, symphonic piece. A style lesson that comes from afar. «We are saints and sinners, sailors, dreamers, a bit like satellites, philosophers of nothing» he sings while dominating the stage from a standstill. The divine. Rating 7.5
Sal Da Vinci – ‘Forever yes’
A confirmation: he is in fact the winner. For four days all of Italy has been singing this neo-melodic “matrimonial” piece in a dance key. Even the Ariston lights up overwhelmed by the impact of a song out of time in terms of music and lyrics. We will still hear it for months almost everywhere. Rating 6.5
And then… Andrea Bocelli arrives. On horseback in front of the Ariston.
Elettra Lamborghini – Voilà
Case in four and little else. “Long live Carrà”, he sings, but it’s not enough. A piece taken for granted in its infinite repetitiveness. Rating 4
60 years of Pooh at the Suzuki Stage. They sing Men alone with whom they won Sanremo in 1990.
Ermal Meta – Stella Stella
Plaguefinger – ‘How annoying!’
Nayt – ‘Before that’
Arisa – ‘Magical fairy tale’
Sayf – ‘I like you a lot’
Levante – ‘It’s you’
Fedez & Masini – ‘Necessary evil’
Samurai Jay – ‘Obsession’
Michele Bravi – ‘Sooner or later’
Thunderbolts – ‘Stupid luck’
Luhè – ‘Labyrinth’
Thirteen Peter – ‘Falling Man’
Mara Sattei – ‘The things you don’t know about me’
Dargen D’Amico – ‘AI AI’
Enrico Nigiotti – ‘Every time I don’t know how to fly’
Marie Antoinette and Colombre – ‘Happiness and that’s it’
Eddie Brock – ‘Vultures’
