Olly chose its people
There is something romantic In the reasons that prompted Olly to renounce participation in the Eurovision Song Contest, deciding not to make use of the right, which is up to the winner of the Sanremo Festival, to represent Italy on the stage of the continental event seen last year from 163 million spectators. And no, he has nothing to do with the choice of the 23 -year -old Genoese songwriter to take his times In a record industry that makes the artists run quickly on the wheel, with consequences that have long since begun to manifest themselves in everyone’s eyes.
The reflections on the frenzied rhythms
“But do you imagine it if … if from tomorrow morning I take the briga that I think of me?”, Sing into the song “Japan construction sites“. And still in “The soul dances“:” Faith make calmly, that the road is long “. Olly’s songs are full of reflections on the frenzied rhythms of the market, on the importance of doing apprenticeship and reaching the goals step by step, with human and sustainable times. But there is more: His is not so much a “no” to the Eurovision, but a “yes” to his peoplethe same that supported him since the beginning and made him win Sanremo. A “yes” to those concerts already scheduled in Mayin conjunction with Sanremo, and too complicated to move. An operation that could have had repercussions on his mental health, as Jvli, his producer, also explained.
The importance of a photo
In the post with which Saturday afternoon, a week after the Festival final, Olly made his decision official, there is a detail that the first interpretations escaped to most, despite being evident: the photo Choice from the voice of “Balorda Nostalgia” to accompany the note is an image taken during one of the concerts of the tour in the clubs – all sold out – last autumn, “I will do it again. We will redo it ”, and portrays the Genoese singer -songwriter with open arms in front of his audience. “I don’t think you would be sad if you move concerts for Eurovision, but but I firmly believe that I need to connect with everything that is happening to me, before looking even further, to continue with my beloved Live apprenticeship that I always speak with infinite pride“, Olly wrote in the post, alluding to the new concerts in the clubs scheduled precisely in conjunction with the Eurovision Song Contest, which will take place from 13 to 17 May in Basel, Switzerland.
A May of 20 thousand tickets
Twelve dates all sold out, equal to Over 20 thousand tickets already sold with months of presalethat Federico Olivieri – this is the real name of the singer -songwriter – chose not to postpone, in sign of gratitude towards his “people”. Those people who mentioned several times in the statements released immediately after the victory of the Festival: “It is my people, the victory is they too,” said Olly about the many guys who on the night of the final of the Sanremo Festival were poured through the streets of the city of flowers singing at the top of the “Balorda Nostalgia” and the other hits of his repertoireshort but already intense, from “for two like us” to “devastating”. And again, commenting on the social compliments of Vasco Rossi, his idol: “Vasco sent me the desire and the strength to share the songs with my people. This result, totally unexpected for me, is the result of a path “. “I do not sing for the hype, I do it to get to the people,” he had confessed to Rockol even before triumphing on the Ariston stage, because “My meter of comparison will always be people, it will always be people“.
Colleagues on its side
In the post on Instagram he reiterated: “For me this decision It is my way of listening to myself and maybe it’s also my twisted way to tell you thanks“. Several colleagues shared his point of view. THE Nuclear tactical penguinsunder the post, they commented: “Only great respect for this choice”. Madame He published a simple and direct: “Great”. As a demonstration of how much that sacred idea of having respect and gratitude for fans, in too many cases treated as flocks to be grazed at willboth central to Olly and for other colleagues who, not surprisingly, are very close to the live dimension. A dimension on which Olly wants to build its future as demonstrated by the latest announced dates and the doubling of the party, scheduled in September, at the Milan racecourse. In short, if in that “no” to the Eurovision and its international spotlight, in reality, there was a “Yes” to a more conscious and shiny futurewith thousands of thousands and thousands of fans who have not felt climbed up?
