Late ask, but just wtf is Sanremo? All I can tell it's something Catholic and has to do with a Saint, but based on the chaos I saw in your reblogs, it also isn't?? The Italian part of me needs to know, mainly because it makes sense for a festival about a Saint to be insane, seeing as many stories about them are pretty insane (read in a children's book on St. Francis of Aussi that when he accepted God's call he stripped naked and strolled out of town, while heard St. Patrick once cursed a group of people being jerks to be werewolves (he asked God to help him out and God was like "Yeah I'll grant you a solid my dude")
So, what is Sanremo??
Oh my gosh. What did you ask. You opened Hell.
(Sorry, this is a bit long but it's funny af)
Nono it's not something Catholic, it's called Sanremo because it takes place in Sanremo, a city in Liguria.
Sanremo it's the "Festival of the italian song" (people can only sing in Italian, that's one of the rules)
[[Before this edition of Sanremo started I found a very cool, funny and useful guide for non italians that explained what is Sanremo and how it works, you can find it here]]
[[since that's for last year, here's also the thread for this year edition, just to see what changed]]
But, basically, it's a musical competition where we decide who's gonna represent Italy in Eurovision. Sanremo is way older than Eurovision toh, at first it was just a competition on its own but then they decided to use it for Eurovision too.
The reason why it looks so chaotic it's because IT IS CHAOTIC XD at least it has been for the past 4 years, it became so much fun to watch. So many funny things happened.
We once had this guy, Morgan, who changed his lyric to insult the guy who was gonna sing with him, Bugo. And this poor guy just straight up left the stage and DISAPPEARED for the rest of the night 💀
This was the host's reaction
(I love this guy lol he's so funny)
Or every time someone does something very homoerotic on stage, just because. Especially the two hosts we had for the past 3 years, the ones in the pic above. (we ship them so much. FOR FUN, shipping real people is gross)
Here they were dancing... :'D
Here with some cool wigs
They're so silly lol
OK I THINK THAT'S ENOUGH AHAH
There are a lot of other things, some scandals here and there (mostly right wing italians being scandalized), cool songs, a bit of sexism (we're working on it), some good feminism and LGBT+ and some more funny moments, like the host (the guy with the blonde wig) that this year started using Instagram to be "Less boomer" and was doing live streams during the festival (hilariously and adorably cringe) but I don't want to bore you ahah
Anyway, the links I left here are very funny threads on Twitter if you want to read something faster and more funny
(SORRY FOR MY BAD ENGLISH. I was on the train and to walk home so I didn't have time to check everything I wrote)
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Oh comunque è assurdo come scatti la mezzanotte e a Sanremo la gente impazzisce. Amadeus coi flashback di guerra di Bugo e Morgan, Gianni che passa la scopa, le prime parole di Fiorello che sono “che minchia fai”. Ora si che si ragiona.
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