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Sanremo 2021, Elodie’s monologue: “When I realized that you don’t always have to feel up to it”

“I’m Elodie, and to speak in front of you I had to tear down a wall: public speaking has never put me at ease. But every time I have managed to tear down a wall, good things have happened in my life ». After having bewitched the public from home by showing off a Jessica Rabbit dress of rare beauty, having proposed a medley of the successes of yesterday and today in the sauce J.Lo. and have sung Amoroso Trottolino together with Fiorello, it is almost in the final stages that Elodie decides to show herself for real and to destroy the wall that has always led her to close in on herself.

«I come from a Roman village, where there are also angry and demoralized people. I was one of those “ insists Elodie, co-host of the second evening of the Sanremo Festival, before admitting that her neighborhood has taken away many things, from hot water to money to pay the bills, but also given so much, like dreaming of doing this job until as a child.

«I didn’t feel up to it» thunders, however, Elodie immediately as if the prospect of pursuing a passion was too great for her. «I didn’t like my voice and, above all, I realized that I didn’t have the instruments: many times I have not given myself a chance. I haven’t finished high school, I haven’t got a diploma or a driving license. I was wrong, I know. In some contexts it is difficult to focus on what you want to be when you grow up “. To come to her rescue, then, are the words of Marracash that she simply calls “my boyfriend”: «My boyfriend says in one of his pieces“ You steal our time, which is the only thing we have ”, and he is right. If you are born in certain contexts, you have to work harder than others to get what you should already have. And so you work harder to survive ».

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The turning point comes when Elodie is 20 years old and meets a musician, Mauro Tre, who is at her side on the Ariston stage at the time of her monologue. “I wanted to thank you for giving me a chance,” she says, turning to him. “You made me love jazz, even if I didn’t feel up to it. I was the first to have a prejudice about myself. What life and music taught me is that you don’t always have to feel up to things, the important thing is to have the courage to do. Maybe I’m not up to this stage, but it’s no longer my problem ». It is there, between the tears that she holds back with difficulty and the dry throat that she tries to moisten with water, that the real Elodie reveals herself to the spectators, and it is definitely one of the strongest and most beautiful moments that the second evening of the Festival of Sanremo has given.

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