Ghali attends the 74th Sanremo Music Festival 2024 at Teatro Ariston on February 10, 2024 in Sanremo, Italy. (Photo by Daniele Venturelli/Daniele Venturelli/Getty Images)
you're in the cinderella wedding carriage with the beautiful old man you've loved for thirty years after hosting the most unhinged music festival in recent history and being psychosexually, in a submissive-and-breedable way, obsessed with him in front of millions of people and he will tell you that he loves you but he will also voyeuristically enact intricate rituals in which he degrades you. and you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like letting diodato kidnap aldo moro, or allowing rosa chemical to wave butt plugs on stage, or having oscar-winner benigni talk about dick and balls and pussy, and you’re tired. you’re in the cinderella wedding carriage with a beautiful old man being watched by 14 million people in your country, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him again, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for: sanremo.
Ghali attends the 74th Sanremo Music Festival 2024 at Teatro Ariston on February 09, 2024 in Sanremo, Italy. (Photo by Daniele Venturelli/Daniele Venturelli/Getty Images)