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Last hurdlethen there is only the final next Thursday in Piazza del Plebiscito in Naples. The six competitors of this eighteenth edition and according to many, including the production, among the best ever X Factor – that is, I Patagarri, Les Votives and Lorenzo Salvetti at Achille Lauro’s altitude, Frankly for Jake La Furia and Mimi and Punkcake for Manuel Agnelli – are playing for everything tonight. Two heats: in the first they perform accompanied by the Franciacorta Philharmonic Orchestra22 elements complete with strings, piano, trombones, not everyday stuff. In the second, however, usual solo covers: ordinary administration, at this point. Only four will remain: the least voted is eliminated, the second to last and third to last go to the playoff in front of the judges.
The Patagarri
The danger in situations like this is that the Orchestra eat it everything else, especially when it comes to groups with such a strong identity. They they play the joker with Can’t Help Falling In Love by Elvis Presley, which ok, it’s a brick, but at least it lets the saxophonist go wild and it’s all downhill from there. But it’s not that simple either and Agnelli is right: they don’t leave their comfort zone, it always feels like being in a jazz club (or a night club), but having got your hands on a piece like that without getting shocked is a merit. So high that the public rewards them and sends them directly to the final. Will another test like this be enough to win?
Mimi
The «new generation of artists» of which Mimi can become a representative, according to Agnelli, his team leader, is actually already a good reality. But, in short, she is too: a 17-year-old girl who sings an intense and mature version, especially on an emotional level, and which bleeds, of Strange Fluit. With You burst into my heartby Mina, given her talent the challenge is instead a rodeo model, that is, riding the bull for two minutes without being thrown off. Great here too and there’s nothing else to say: regardless of how it ends, the hope is that there is an industry out there that wants to valorise it without burning it, because that would be a real shame.
Les Votives
Freed from national-popular pieces, Achille Lauro takes care of it with a hyper-classical assignment such as At least you in the universe of Mia Martini to satisfy his hunger. Les Votives build a version in which they bite each other and which, thanks to the short performance times, goes up in flames very quickly. Maybe a little too much overactingwith the result of seeming, despite the mess created (to get by they say: «Wall of sound»), paradoxically cold. It goes better with Crazywhen they can build the arrangement to measure – the orchestra doesn’t get much right with them, it’s clear.
Frankly
The association between Frankly and Alice had been calling since at least the last episode, since she played the unreleased song, Forgewhich draws from there. Of course it does For Elisahe does it well, he makes it his own (the orchestra is enhanced better than in other pieces), but it remains to be understood why an artist with such an original voice – one, that is, that is inspired by Alice, let’s understand – is X Factor. In fact, in the second round he sings The last kiss by Carmen Consoli, to build a bridge with another artist who resembles her and, oops, has little to do with talent. Enough covers, we need more original pieces here, of course.
Lorenzo Salvetti
Carusowith the orchestra, is out of focus: for goodness sake, Hello he is more mature than his very young age as they tell him everywhere, but he continues to fish from the pool of singer-songwriters and they assigned him the least singer-songwriter piece by Lucio Dalla, the one that has the least to do with the rest of the repertoire, as well as something too big for him. He does much better with This little big lovebut the impression is that he is imprisoned in too much of a character senior for him – and therefore, already seen and a little wasted.
Punkcake
I don’t know. Do a cover – even good, eh – of My way by the Sex Pistols, itself a cover of Frank Sinatra’s, doesn’t seem like an idea: the first one was outrageous, here you risk a bit of a vintage punk cosplay effect, with the added bonus of being in the first evening on Sky, which does a lot I’m a rebellious mom of the Skiantos. They respond to these criticisms with the second assignment, Gift Horsethe Trojan horse, by Idles, a rock march by Idles with which to reiterate that Agnelli is the horse, the transmission is Troy and they are the infiltrated Achaeans. Only this time the strategy doesn’t pay off.
Source: Vanity Fair
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