The tests: Giorgia and Olly stand out, but the general level is low

The first tour of Boa can make it clear the intensity of the waves and the depth of the sea. Monday at the Sanremo Festival is the day of the last tests: all the singers in the race, on the Ariston stage, In sequence, they propose their songs, dropped in the scenography. In the audience, the printing and the insiders. Carlo Conti explained that the exit order to the tests should be the same as the first evening of the eventthat of Tuesday. For those who follow the festival directly from the city of flowers, that of the tests is one of the most relevant moments: the various evenings, in fact, They will see on the Maxiskemers in the press room, but this is an opportunity to breathe the theater and understand the songs livetheir strength, their effectiveness and how much they could grow.

In some cases the impressions on the first plays of January, previewed for the press, are overturned, in others confirmed. The general level, this year, let’s face it, is low, very few leave their mark. Among the artists we liked the most to the tests there are Rose Villain, Olly, Lucio Corsi, Brunori Sas, Joan Thiele, Shablo. Favorites are confirmed Giorgia, Olly and Achille Lauro, but be careful of Francesco Gabbani and Rocco Huntwhich grow on stage. Now we wait to see them n TV (the direction will make further difference). But in the meantime here are our impressions song for songin order of exit.

Gaia – “I call you you”
It is exactly the song that is expected from Gaia: a mix of rhythm, vocal shades and colors. Performance is embellished with the presence of a corps de ballet. The song is interpreted well, the refrain remains stuck in the head, but the piece always remains on the tracks.

Francesco Gabbani – “Long live life”
A very classic ballad, brought to the stage with class and mastery, without frills and find particular. Raise an applause from the audience. It grows compared to the listening, not to be underestimated: Gabbani knows the Ariston well and this song will continue to grow.

Rkomi – “The rhythm of things”
It starts from the repetition of a note on the plane, but it is not Kanye West’s “runaway”. The song then takes rhythm, raises the tone, but Rkomi, despite the beautiful text and the abdominal as a warrior, from the interpretative point of view appears undertone.

Noemi – “If you fall in love with you”
Michelangelo, co-author of the song together with Mahmood and Blanco, is conductor. The voice of Noemi Graffia, however much less the song: a ballad growing with impeccable interpretation, but all a little predictable.

Irama – “slowly”
A Napoleonic dressed Irama has a song with Coldplay echoes that, evening after evening, could grow, but needs a lot of fuel.

Coma_cose – “Cuoricini”
Spoiler: the stage is full of hearts. And they make the gesture of hearts. Everything a little didactic? Yes, because the song – a 80s electro -pop – is designed to be a catchphrase and is brought to the stage consistently. But if we think from where they left … but you know, in Sanremo everything is worth: and in the end you find yourself singing “hearts, little heart”

Simone Cristicchi – “When you are small”
The Tenco club on the stage of the Festival: Cristicchi unites different worlds, and does it with few things, all in the right place. Intense, measured interpretation, arches to underline the story of a parent who ages. Be careful because in Sanremo do something different, unique and recognizable pay. And in fact he torn the most convinced applause from the audience.

Marcella Bella – “Diamond leather”
Marcella-Techno, aggressive look and sexy dancers behind him, while she sings “strong independent toast, I don’t touch anything”. Repeat the lesson of the rich and poor: more Eurovision than Sanremo (you will decide whether it is good or bad …).

Achille Lauro – “young unconscious”
Directed by Maestro Davide Rossi, a super musician who collaborates with international artists, Lauro, in a songwriter version (visually, in reality the song is written in multiple hands), has a piece that tries to remain suspended over time. The arrangement works, the study version had struck us more, the interpretation is dirty and inaccurate: Lauro is so, take or leave. It can leave its mark.

Giorgia – “The cure for me”
If it is the favorite it is not only because it is Giorgia, it is because she presents with a perfect song for her and for this stage: classic, elegant, but with a touch that takes her out of the tracks of the typical ballad. In the end she pulls a great sigh, let the tension go and take a standing ovation.

Willie Peyote – “Thanks but no thanks”
The Turin rapper and singer -songwriter, accompanied by two choristers that offer warmth to the piece, has a fun song, with a text that puts the conservatism lightly. There is the right rhythm, but Willie must put more pepper on the piece and make it burned more.

Rose Villain – “Outlaw”
She also directed by Maestro Davide Rossi, brings her trademark to Ariston: a piece that mixes electronics with a more open and free refrain, with an almost gospel ending. It is on the same path as “click boom”, is it true, but who said that in this case it must necessarily be a problem? Voice and personality: Brava.

Shablo feat. Guè, Joshua & Tormento – “My word”
Shablo shows up in the center of the stage, at the console. His travel companions turn around and rap. A black piece that smells of hip hop culture and seems to rewind the ribbon in the 90s. They distinguish themselves, with style.

Olly – “Balorda nostalgia”
It all starts from a guitar tour, the voice is, with all the debt proportions, to Vasco. A ballad that grows listening after listening. The young singer -songwriter interprets her vigorously and transport, he arrives straight where he has to arrive. Listening to it live you have the confirmation: it can go all the way.

Elodie – “Forget about 7”
Multistrate song, not immediate, but which can reserve surprises. She interprets him quite well, both on a vocal level and in movements. He is not playing just to participate, we will see where he will arrive.

Massimo Ranieri – “In his hands a heart”
Massimo Ranieri makes Massimo Ranieri. A song of the past (and out of time) for one of the great lords of Italian music.

Tony Effe – “Damme ‘na hand”
He begins with a guitar that Stornella, (re) citing Califano, but does not give up the gestures as a trapper and also the imaginary Macho (we talk about men of honor and love above all the mother, but in a very different way from Cristicchi). Je would like it.

Serena Brancale – “Anema and Core”
The Ariston turns into a whale and there is also the debut of the Finger Drumming. A song that seems to come from a carnival on the borders of the world.

Bruori Sas – “The tree of the walnuts”
It is not the song that will win, but stands out for class and writing. He presents himself with an electric guitar in the hands of marking his origins and the world from which he arrives and tells with grace and without rhetoric paternity: the song grows compared to when we listened to it the first time.

Modà – “I don’t forget you”
Fans of Modà will like it because there are all the traits that represent them inside. That’s all, however, above the lines.

Clara – “Fever”
Movement from aspiring pop star, the use of vertical videos as if it were a direct social. The singer is at ease on stage, but the song is already heard, in several situations it looks like a great dejavu.

Fedez – “beat”
A dark song, with electronic and rappcoat parts, in which Fedez speaks of depression. Interpretation that starts badly, then slowly adjusts, but it takes much more.

Lucio Corsi – “I wanted to be a tough”
It starts on the floor, then smears the guitar and takes the stage, dressed like a glam rock icon. An alien that sings, with graceful and at the same time intensity, a song that overturns the canons from “hard”. A different, original proposal. Finally.

Bresh – “The Guro’s den”
A simple ballad that smells of the sea. Bresh brings his music, his world, without overdoing it.

Rocco Hunt – “A thousand times again”
On stage is at ease, it interacts well with the orchestra. Rabpa and sings. It tells fragments of life, between errors, departures and wasted occasions. Nothing new, but it will be interesting to understand what type of answer will collect on televoting.

Sarah Toscano – “Amarcord”
The voice is there, but the song is like many others. It is the funny POP share, the one that brings the mind back to the discos on Saturday afternoon and to the self -contracts to the Luna Park.

Joan Thiele – “Eco”
Refined, with initial echoes to Ennio Morricone, a voice that recalls the divas of the past. In St. Vincent mode, taking the guitar, the artist presents one of the most relevant musically pieces, but must melt and better mark the words.

Francesca Michielin – “Mud in Paradise”
Another song that grows, compared to listening: a ballad (of which there is abundance this year), but with good writing and an intense interpretation, as is convenient for a break-up song.

The Kolors – “You with whom you make love”
Between “Italodisco” and Raffaella Carrà, this time it is not Ibiza, but “I expect to Mykonos” with a catchphrase made and finished: it is impossible to remove that refrain from the head.