Orietta Berti, moral winner of the Sanremo Festival

Like Aiello’s scream, only more incisive. Orietta Berti, the most titled among the Big in the race in Sanremo, did not enter the top ten positions of the provisional ranking. Not for the public opinion jury, not for the orchestra, not for the press room. Strictly speaking, therefore, his name should not appear next to the word “victory”. But it is almost impossible to ignore what treatment and what reception the public – especially if social – has reserved for her.

Orietta Berti, in the Sanremo of the pandemic, was stronger than Zlatan Ibrahimović, more transgressive than Achille Lauro.

E music was not needed for Twitter to crown her queen of Ariston. It was not the (albeit beautiful) song that Orietta Berti brought with her, but her disarming anachronism that broke into the hearts of the public. “The police did not arrest me, they accompanied me to the Hotel Globo because they did not believe where I was going,” he said again, recounting in his own way the tragicomic “accident” that saw her protagonist in Bordighera. Three steering wheels stopped her. Too late to circulate. “But I have to try on clothes for Sanremo,” Berti replied. “At this hour, madam?” “If not now, when?”. And down, with the steering wheels to escort her through the Ligurian alleys.

Orietta Berti told the fact with sincerity. And the video went viral. How it would become viral, a few hours later, her being ready for an intergenerational collaboration. “I would like to duet with Madame, with Ermal Metal and with Naziskin»Said the phenomenal Orietta, with the candor that a grandmother could have had, in love with young people but a stranger to their bizarre world, and determined to remain so.

Orietta Berti, viral, has become the icon of an audience in love with her unwitting comedy. THE meme flocked online. “Orietta Berti has a brass knuckle with her name that Snoop Dog dodges,” someone wrote.

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