San Marino 2025: Gabry Ponte - Tutta L’Italia

[ButterTart]

When your voice is so weak we can actually hear the music...

And I'm all for an ostentatious earring but he looking like he's got the M25 dangling from each lobe.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

I wonder if this one is the stronger semi

Well we have six more to go through, so we can hope it only gets better

 

[Penelope]

 

[ButterTart]

I hope many of these people never appear on television or, indeed, recorded media of any kind ever again.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Another Brit! I hope it isn't MORTIFYING

 

[ButterTart]

Okay, from appearance alone I'm quietly optimistic about Rowetta here.

 

[Penelope]

She's British but singing in Portuguese?!

 

[Penelope]

AND Italian?!

 

[ZenGiraffe]

AND Italian?!

I'm telling Nigel, this shouldn't be allowed.

 

[ButterTart]

Okay, from appearance alone I'm quietly optimistic about Rowetta here.

Well, that'll teach me to jump the gun.

 

[Alla]

Another Brit! I hope it isn't MORTIFYING

She doesn't look British at all, I wonder if they can decide they're from any country they want. Anything is possible in San Marino, the land of Freedom and Weapons.

 

[ButterTart]

This actually sounds like it could be decent with an audible backing track and less audible singer.

 

[ButterTart]

the land of Freedom and Weapons.

!

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Someone lied to this man several times.

 

[ButterTart]

Marco's clearly skipped the Sanremo phase of his career and gone straight to the pill addiction part.

 

[Alla]

This has to be his first time on stage, ever.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Marco's clearly skipped the Sanremo phase of his career and gone straight to the pill addiction part.

Oh pills are a PREREQUISITE for sanremo

 

[ZenGiraffe]

What a HIDEOUS FROCK

 

[win_the_game]

Oh she made that frock herself didn't she

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Have I lost all sense of perspective or is this GOOD!?

 

[ButterTart]

Okay, this sort of bangs

 

[Penelope]

The butterfly tails on her thighs are giving Xtina at the Etta James funeral.

 

[Alla]

She sounds like Maria Callas if you compare her with the rest.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Some Styling Och Consulting would sort this RIGHT OUT

 

[ButterTart]

The frock looks like she had to knock it up on Drag Race using materials foraged from the skip behind Dunelm.

 

[D5K]

I've just tuned in. I assume it's all been this good?

 

[win_the_game]

She sings like she's swallowed her tongue.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

No, I'm sorry:

 

[ZenGiraffe]

I've just tuned in. I assume it's all been this good?

 

[ButterTart]

This is probably the best one we've heard so far. Soz, Chazza.

 

[Alla]

From Finland!

 

[ZenGiraffe]

I was not expecting that!

 

[ButterTart]

Wow, those vocals did not live up to that intro.

 

[win_the_game]

Howling at the mismatch between him and the song

 

[ButterTart]

Okay but I'm quite enjoying this 80s pastiche old clack.

 

[Alla]

What the hell? I was expecting hard rock from Finland.

 

[ButterTart]

Howling at the mismatch between him and the song

Right? His CAMRA member energy really blindsided me.

This needs an auld schlager lout at the helm.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

This sounds like a song that an old man everyone had forgotten about decades ago would receive the Melfest legend award for.

 

[ButterTart]

Chazza would have done that the justice it deserved.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

We've entered the HISTORICAL RE-ENACTMENT (song contest division) portion of the evening