Tony Effe closes the story New Year’s Eve at the Circus Maximus
That ugly mess of New Year’s Eve at the Circus Maximus. The municipality of Rome, after last year’s success, where 70,000 people chose to await the arrival of the new year following the show staged at the Circus Maximus, was planning to replicate the offer this year too and had invited people to come up on stage, among others, as the main artists on the bill Mahmood, Mara Sattei and Tony Effe.
As soon as the cast was announced in the press conference presenting the last evening of the year, more than one organization close to issues related to women launched criticisms at the mayor of the capital Gualtieri and to his council for having invited Tony Effe to perform guilty of having misogynistic, violent and sexist content in some of his songs.
The municipality of Rome then backtracks and eliminates it Tony Effe from programming, at that point Mahmood and Mara Sattei also backtrack. Music cannot and must be censored. In the last few hours, other artists have also expressed solidarity with the Roman rapper who, for his part, closed the matter by publishing the following message on his Instagram account:
