I don’t know whether to take with me the memory of Marco Mengoni who parades on the Eurovision 2023 stage with the Lgbtqia+ flag or that of Kate Middleton: sitting at the piano, the Princess of Wales performed a Stephanie, the song by Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra that won last year’s competition. I don’t know why every person, every idea, every song disappears behind the “image” that represents it: it’s the law of the media. The Eurovision Song Contest until a few years ago was considered the singing version of Games without Frontiersbut now it’s trendy. Especially this year which was held in Liverpool (land of the Beatles) which is in the United Kingdom, therefore no longer in Europe, but as if it were in the Ukraine, the country which had won the last edition but, for the well-known reasons, has not been able to organize the demonstration. He has something else, more important, to think about, the colors of his flag scattered everywhere reminded us.
The song is an imaginary space and, right from the title of this event, it is our dream of Europe, a dream many times betrayed and yet strong enough to unite us in a community that is measured in shares. The excess of electronic scenography makes the songs all seem a bit the same, as if the visual, scenographic part were more important than the singing. To use Milan Kundera’s idea, speaking of Europe, “the kitsch aesthetic” prevailed, meaning by the word not bad taste, not junk, but the attitude of someone who wants to please at any cost and greater number of people. If we are all alike, if we dream of being a European or international community, it is because we are all “up to date” (or at least we try to be) and updating can only take place in the name of accepting modern clichés. The Eurovision Song Contest is the future of the Sanremo Festival, the day it decides to free itself from the “slavery” of the Ariston Theater (or maybe, who knows, this slavery is precisely its virtue, its uniqueness). The Italian public was able to count on the comments of Gabriele Corsi and Mara Maionchi (our Princess of Wales), who brought Mengoni a lucky charm from her father-in-law.
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