Sanremo 2025, Carlo Conti does not want controversy, but the festival is not (also) this?

If you have seen Lost illusionsthe wonderful film by Xavier Giannoli unfairly snubbed in Venice in 2021, you will remember that, at some point, the brilliant writer Raoul Nathan asked his publisher for a “controversy” because without that he would not have been able to sell his latest book. In nineteenth century France the controversy served exactly to what it takes today: to make a product speak for the purpose that it is on everyone’s mouth. Applies to movies like The Passion of Christ and books like Fifty shades of gray but also for ours Sanremo Festivalwho has always needed that to remain impressed Squandlet capable of reminding the public that, yes, the songs are important, but even everything else is no less – It is no coincidence that after all, that The Bugo-Morgan dealFedez’s lemon and Tony Effe and the roses kicked by Blanco if everyone remembers them while the duets of the past edition must be searched for them on Google.

Carlo Conti is a navigation man of television who made his trademark of the factory: never a smudging has, in fact, stained his long career, even if in his programs he has never given up on those color notes capable of making the difference – choose, for example, Carmen Di Pietro as a competitor of the last edition of Such and what show It was the clear demonstration. Interviewed by Alessandro Cattelan for his podcast SupernovaConti hastened to say that nothing of what the newspapers wrote about possible strategies Vecchiappa-Hype for its Sanremo is true. Conti, in fact, says that the songs of Fedez and Tony Effe chose them well before the dissing that saw them protagonists And who monopolized the Italian cultural debate for ten abundant days, and we also want to believe him even if we have a doubt: But even if they had been chosen after the dissing, what would have been wrong?

Adriano Alia

Sanremo is music, it is a show but it is also everything else: an amplifier of controversy that serve a little to everyone because on that chat Not only are the protagonists of Sanremo but also we who, for a good week, we will know what to discuss on social media to fill our days. Never like this year Sanremo looks like a time bomb: in the race, in fact, there are Fedez, Achille Lauro – the man with whom, according to Fabrizio Corona, Chiara Ferragni would have betrayed her husband – but also Tony Effe. At Alessandro Cattelan’s afterFestival there are, instead, Selvaggia Lucarellithe one who made the Ferragnez empire collapse thanks to his investigation into the pandoro, but also Giulia De Lellisgirlfriend of Tony Effe and represented by the same Lucarelli agency. Will we look at Sanremo (also) for all that these potentially explosive combinations will be able to arouse? Of course yes, and admit it, to be in line with what Balzac wrote in Lost illusionscannot be a dishonor, because the controversy, in Sanremo and almost everywhere, cannot do much bad. And this both we – and Carlo Conti, and the interested parties – we know it well.