✨ My top 10 Favourite Chaotic Moments from Sanremo Herstory ✨
Have you ever wondered when and how Sanremo become synonymous with chaos, gayness and scandalous behaviour? Trick question it's always been this way, italians invented being unhinged and unbearable 24/7, so it's only natural that italian artists would live up to this reputation.
So enjoy my top 10 favorite sanremo moments, listed in chronological order and not in order of chaoticness, cause chaos is unrankable:
1. 1961 - Adriano Celentano was criticized not because of his sexy moves, but because he turned his back to the audience for like one second while singing 24.000 baci, ugh the disrespect (also look at that stage, peak Sanremo).
2. 1978 - Just Anna Oxa debuting on the Sanremo stage at 16 years old. Iconic look. Iconic song. Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, showstopping, spectacular, etc. etc. If you get it you get, if you don't you don't.
3. 1983 - Vasco Rossi leaves the stage before finishing his song Vita Spericolata, revealing to everyone that the singers weren't singing live, but just lipsyncing. Because of this, he arrived second-to-last in the competition but this song later became one of the most popular of his whole career.
4. 1986 - Loredana Bertè sings Re and dances on the stage while wearing a leather Versace minidress and being fake pregnant. Absolutely iconic behavior which was criticized cause as we all know pregnant women are not allowed to dance and be themselves.
5. 1999 - Queer legend Anna Oxa came back and won Sanremo with Senza Pietà AND with her whole pussy out.
6. 2009 - Known homophobe and antivaxxer Povia goes on the Sanremo stage singing Luca era gay, an homophobic song about a man who used to be gay, but now he's with her. I had to include this one for the quota democristiana, I will, however, spare you the trauma of having to look at his face, so enjoy this screenshot which I obviously choose for completely unrelated reasons.
7. 2010 - Heir apparent of the Italian monarchy Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia shows up at Sanremo with Italia amore mio, a song about his love for Italy, the country his family was exiled from after they abandoned it in the hands of fascism. Honestly, we should have borrowed that guillotine from the French cause this is what you get when you leave your former royal family alive. If I hadn't personally witnessed this, I wouldn't have believed it. He was such a shitty singer that he had to get two actual singers to sing for with him.
8. 2010 - The Sanremo orchestra (which votes on who they think had the best musical arrangement) openly and loudly protested against the public vote by throwing their music sheets in the air and ripping them. And honestly they were doing god's work, cause the public vote overturned theirs, which led to the exclusion of singer Malika Ayane from the podium, and allowed the disgreced prince and his two subjects to place second, yes second (2nd) in the competition.
9. 2019 - Singer Ultimo places second and promptly launches into a tirade against the jury and the journalists whose votes eventually led to Mahmood's victory. He claims that he should have won cause the public vote was heavily skewed in his favor (true) and that it's not fair that a handful of people (industry experts, mind you) have the power to overturn the situation like this. Anyone who watches eurovison should be intimately familiar with this type of drama, but what makes this funny for me personally is the irony of his name literally meaning "Last". Here you can see him in his light blue suit graciously accepting defeat.
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