Sanremo is Sanremo again. Fratelli d’Italia senator Lavinia Mennuni wrote an open letter to Rai president Marinella Soldi about what has been seen at the Festival so far. “Dear President, I write to you on behalf of many citizens who have come to me with serious doubts about the present edition of Sanremo – the letter reads – Sanremo is the Italian Song Festival, it should be and over the years it has been the meeting point of families, friends, the meeting of different generations around the great Kermesse framed by the freshness of the flowers characteristic of Sanremo and auspicious for the continuation of the winter season ready to open in spring”.
“The Festival is known and appreciated around the world, but this edition has been a continuous mockery of the simplest canons of respect, politeness, good taste and common sense. Just to name a few of the critical elements, in particular Blanco’s performance that kicked the floral decorations causing perplexity, especially among children and teenagers, who received a message praising the violence and vandalism on the Ariston stage. Festival. In addition, there is a risk of frustrating the educational objective of children, through the creation of “formats” such as Tg kids that contrast with the strong and raw messages transmitted in prime time these days”, writes Mennuni. .
“We had to witness the vulgar performance of some groups that disturbed, in several cases, mainly by the gestures, the appropriate movements maybe for a brothel but not for what should once again be the stage that shows the beautiful Italian music. The provocation went beyond the limits of spectacularization, offering Italians and the world a vision that perhaps tries to influence society, but that only runs the risk of damaging its most delicate fruits that are not yet mature enough to discern the ugly from the beautiful, the bad from good . You and the festival organizers to reflect and remedy what happened. May Sanremo continue to be the musical event, once the stage of beautiful Italy, of its music, born of the post-war desire for distraction, from which songs that belong to our history such as “In the blue painted in blue”, poetic verses that today many they are sometimes opposed to noise, to insubstantial clamor, to mediocrity. it is necessary to re-value its culture, its identity, its history and doing so also means going beyond the composition of moments in the context of the festival that pursue these objectives. We are working so that the happy slogan is once again pronounced with satisfaction “because Sanremo is Sanremo!”, concludes the FdI senator.
Source: IL Tempo
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