Last year Amadeus had brought his research of radio catchphrase at all costs to extreme consequences. From this point of view, Carlo Conti will propose an equally rich menu (29 songs in the race, plus the 4 of the young people …), but stylistically more varied, between ballads and more rhythmic songs, but always in the name of melody, too by the artists who come from rap. Another note of merit: a more massive presence of songwriters and songwriters. In short, the first impression derived from the preview of the songs is certainly better than last year. For the final victory, the feeling is that Giorgia play a separate championship compared to the others. But, you know, at Ariston everything can happen. Here are our report cards anyway:
1. Achille Lauro
Young unconscious
Call for provocations: Lauro returns to the stage that launched him with a very classic love song on a boy and a girl marked by life, so much so that “we slept in Peugeot”.
Vote 7
2. Bresh
The la thhea of the crab
In contrast to the prevailing male chauvinism of many of his colleagues rapper, he lets himself go to an unconditional surrender: «I have a wrong word for every sentence. I’m just a man and I can’t do it ».
Vote 7
3. Brunori Sas
The walnut tree
The singer -songwriter at his debut does not disappoint with an exciting love song, also for his Calabria: “I grew up in a cruel land, where the snow mixes with honey and good people carry crowns in the head”.
Vote 7.5
4. Clara
Fever
It looks like a poor song by Madame and in fact then among the authors there is Francesca Calearo, aka Madame. All already heard. Too bad because the voice would be there.
Vote 5
5. Coma_cose
Hearts
We met them as boyfriends. Now, from Neospieti, they try the road of the catchphrase by ironizing on hearts in social networks “even under the news that the world collapses”. They were, however, more original before.
Vote 6.5
6. Elodie
Forget about 7
The song is not at all memorable in an attempt to unite the 60s atmospheres with the techno, but she still manages to ennoble her with her persuasive voice. The scenic presence at Ariston will make the rest.
Vote 6
7. Fedez
Beat
The surprise of the Festival. The beat of the title is the one who brivers the chills at night who tells the battle against depression: “I would like to heal but I don’t think, I see the sky black too”.
Vote 7.5
8. Francesca Michielin
Mud in paradise
The Venetian singer -songwriter returns to Ariston with a song on the end of a love that only partially enhances the great potential of Francesca, both as an author and as an interpreter. However, the push of the orchestra could take it off.
Vote 6
9. Francesco Gabbani
Long live life
In an elegant tripled rhythm, the Tuscan singer -songwriter exploded thanks to Carlo Conti invites us to take “Life as it is. Long live life, this life that is only a moment ». Not very original, but to be hummed to pull up on the dark days it goes more than good.
Vote 6.5
10. Gaia
I call I call you
The queen of last summer thanks to sex and samba sung with Tony Effe arrives at Ariston with a piece built again on the obsessive repetition of the title. Good to dance on the beach next summer and nothing more. But sex and samba was more fun.
Vote 5
11. Giorgia
The cure for me
After Mina, she also wanted to make use of the talent of the young Blanco. And he did well: after the half disappointment of Sanremo 2023, he can now really repeat the victory of thirty years ago with how I know, thanks to a score that gives it the opportunity to show off incredible vocal stunts.
Vote 8.5
12. Irama
Slowly
Blanco gave him a hand to him too, but unlike Giorgia his contribution did not make himself heard. We are faced with the nth degree heartbreaking song on a finished love, screamed from start to finish. Cocciante did it, but he could count on amazing melodies.
5.5 vote
13. Joan Thiele
Echo
Born in Veneto, who grew up between Colombia and England, winner in 2023 of a David di Donatello with bullets, song of the film I eat your heart, the singer -songwriter is looking for the consecration with a song with rétro flavors that would be well in a film of Quentin
Tarantino.
Vote 7
14. Lucio Corsi
I wanted to be a tough
The elf launched by Carlo Verdone in Sanremo in the life series by Carlo really arrives at Ariston confirming his qualities with a hymn to the importance of accepting himself for what one is, also “a white judo belt”.
Vote 7
15. Marcella Bella
Diamond skin
Like the rich and poor last year, aims to hurl the Ariston with a song rhythmic as a “strong, tough, independent” woman who has “skin as a diamond”.
Vote 6.5
16. Massimo Ranieri
In his hands a heart
Nek and Tiziano Ferro are among the authors of this ballad. He performs it impeccablely and there is also a good sax. But at first listening he does not heat his heart much.
Vote 6.5
17. Modà
I don’t forget
A perfect distillate of the passionate style of the Kekko Silvestre band. Sentence to remember: the beloved woman looks like “a picture of Kandinsky where to imagine everything”.
Vote 6.5
18. Noemi
If you fall in love you die
Also this time Noemi will leave his mark thanks to a Ballatona signed by two creepy authors such as Blanco and Mahmood. In the center there is a couple, with his insecurities: “Having children is not an easy speech to take”.
Vote 7
19. Olly
Balorda nostalgia
Back to the Festival, this time he decided to leave his mark with a song that knows how to be both classic and modern. Suffice it to say that at 23 years already regrets when with her she fell asleep “on the sofa with the remote control in
hand”.
Vote 7
20. Rkomi
The rhythm of things
The rapper throws his invectives (“it is a modern decreasing, it is a slow fire hell, it is love without feeling”; “I go out of the algorithm, I find beauty only behind the unexpected”) on an captivating musical base.
Vote 7
21. Rocco Hunt
A thousand vote again
The nostalgia for childhood and love for Naples, “where you still die at all at twenty years”, faced with a nice rap -time attitude.
Vote 7
22. Rose Villain
Outlaw
As for Clara and Gaia: there is only her voice. The rest has not been received, between dance bases and phrases that would like to be effective, but only reveal their emptiness.
Vote 5
23. Sarah Toscano
Amarcord
Another song made with the mold that shows how the songs chosen by Conti are not all that is all essential.
Vote 5
24. Shablo
My word
Manufacturer of many recent successes, convinces with an innerous rap of blues, where even a trumpet peeps out.
Vote 7
25. Serena Brancale
Anema and core
Debutante, he aims to repeat Angelina Mango’s exploit with a mix between Neapolitan tradition and Latin rhythms. To be affected.
Vote 6
26. Simone Cristicchi
When you are small
He has the rare gift of dealing with strong themes by dodging rhetoric. Here he points straight to the heart with a song dedicated to a mother affected by Alzheimer’s: “We will play to remember how many children you have”.
Vote 8
27. The Kolors
You with whom you make love
With the Zampino of Calcutta and keyboards reminiscent of the SuperTramps, they emancipate themselves at least in part to the classic catchphrase.
Vote 6
28. Tony Effe
Damme ‘na hand
No vulgarity, but a Stornello in Romanesco in which Like a new Franco Califano, he holds why she “wants to go to dinner, but there is the game”. A clever?
Vote 6.5
29. Willie Peyote
Thanks but no thanks
“You should give less listening to feelings, which are never good investments.” “Thanks, but no thanks.” He does what is expected of him: to make dance with mocking irony.
Vote 6.5
