The singer posted on Facebook a video, immediately removed, with his song for the Festival. State TV and the artistic director Amadeus, however, believed in his good faith
ROME. Gianni Morandi as Maradona. God’s hand strikes again. Irony is a must, but the singer took a big risk: for what he called a clumsy mistake he came close to being eliminated from the Sanremo festival. Everything was consumed in a handful of hours: since a video appeared on Facebook – immediately removed – with the background of the song written by Jovanotti, which the national Gianni will bring to the competition (Open all doors), to the subsequent fibrillation for having could have infringed the festival regulations until Rai decided to postpone and close the affair.
«This time I made it big. I was wrong to inadvertently post a video with fragments of the song on Facebook. I insist on doing it alone but I’m really a clumsy! As soon as I realized I deleted it but someone had already seen it. I am heartbroken, sorry and I apologize very much to everyone ». The eternal boy has always admitted via social media, also collecting the solidarity of Fedez, who last year had a similar experience. “I understand you. Maybe I’m the only one who can truly understand you. I’m happy that everything went well ».
Rai and the artistic director Amadeus believed in the good faith of the singer and considered the episode «a pure technical inconvenience, due to Morandi’s need to wear a brace on his right hand following the accident that occurred a few months ago. The impediment to the movement of the hand caused the error ». A choice that, however, attracted more than one criticism. The AFI – Associazione Fonografici Italiani believes that the Festival Regulations have been “disregarded” and “not considered by anyone” and questions “the principle adopted to make decisions”. Codacons also took the field, deeming Rai’s choice “shameful” and reserving the right to appeal.
But on Sanremo, which will start in exactly four weeks (Tuesday 1 February), there are many other tiles that are looming. When the organizational machine started months ago, no one could imagine the current situation, with a resurgence of coronavirus infections. If at the beginning the 2022 festival was hypothesized as that of an almost return to normality, today the questions and doubts multiply, while Liguria is starting to turn orange. On the table there does not seem to be the postponement of the event to better times – as requested by the Confcommercio of Sanremo, hoping for a postponement to March – but certainly a downsizing. While waiting for the next measures that the government will take to fight the virus as early as tomorrow, the events outside the Ariston have in the meantime skipped.
If on the one hand there will be a Costa Cruises ship moored offshore, on the other hand there will be no stage in Piazza Colombo, with consequent gatherings, as announced by the mayor of the town Alberto Biancheri. “There will not be an outdoor stage, however we are working with Rai on an event at the Alfano auditorium. Unfortunately, the infections are high “, admits the mayor who however remains hopeful:” It will not be a one hundred percent Festival like that of 2019, but it cannot even be compared to that of last year “. Draghi’s decisions will also have to be awaited for the audience in the theater. At the moment the capacity in theaters is 100%: it will be necessary to understand if – in the light of the latest epidemiological data – there will be changes to the downside. In Rai they are not unbalanced, but certainly the precautionary line will be the one followed last year, when a sort of bubble was created around the festival with tampons every 48 hours to all the people involved in various capacities in the organizational machine (artists, journalists , workers etc). It is not excluded that the reinforced Green Pass will be required.
Rai in fact reserves the right to apply a protocol that is even stricter than the rules in force at national level to safeguard the safety of all. Meanwhile, armored, Amadeus goes on and works on co-hosts, co-hosts, guests and comedians. After the evening of January 6 for the Italian Lottery, he will move to Sanremo to start preparing the show. Waiting to know what Fiorello will do (from January 20 he starts with the theatrical tour, but the boxes of the Sanremo week have remained empty on the calendar, which could make us think of a decision in a positive sense, at least for an evening, perhaps the final) , in the ‘wishlist’ there is the name of Checco Zalone. In Rome, however, the rehearsals of the artists competing with the orchestra have begun. (HANDLE).