Last year he was the super guest of the final evening. Yet Gino Paoli lashes out against Sanremo 2024. «The Festival? I don't watch it. It used to be the song festival, just the song, it wasn't even important who sang it. It wasn't the squalid spectacle it is now ». The 89-year-old artist does not mince words. Guest of the new episode of the 'Tintorià' podcast, hosted by Daniele Tinti and Stefano Rapone, he answers a question about the Sanremo Festival, right on the debut day of the 74th edition. Today it is «a repetition of any television show », where «there is a bit of everything, dwarfs and dancers », where «scandals count » and «all those things to talk about it ».
What he said
«Once the record companies - argues the Genoese singer-songwriter - sent the best song they had, the best songs arrived. It was the Song Festival. Then the record companies realized the power that Sanremo has for Italy and now they make the finished product and send it to Sanremo. From there the television realizes that the Sanremo show works (it arrives not only in Italy but also outside), and then it appropriates Sanremo and makes it the squalid spectacle it is now », he says. And again, Paoli emphasizes, before the songs «were chosen, they already had such important filters that the song of crap did not reach Sanremo, but now especially those of crap arrive ».
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