Many people during ESC are complaining about the fact that Fabrizio seems so angry when he sings Non mi avete fatto niente and are saying he needs to chill out, but honestly?
His rage is one of the reasons I love this song so much. Because we always want to see love and wonderful, peaceful things on stage, I get it, but when you answer to terrorism you don’t start from there, in my opinion.
You start from fear and rage and frustration because they’re taking away what you love the most. When someone takes away your freedom to be happy, you build all that explosive rage inside you and guess what?
You turn it into hope, determination, strength. And visceral love for humanity. I don’t think that what Fabrizio has is “just” rage - I think he’s so strong and emotional in his way of singing and playing and living that he’s fucking ready to bring the world down to show everyone that we can fight together. We can be proud of being free together.
We can shout “you haven’t done anything to me” together on the top of our lungs and with all the pain and the rage and the frustration that line brings with it in our heads - because that has to be shouted. That has to be heard.
Honestly, I wouldn’t want any other voice to sing that line on that stage rather than Fabrizio’s. (And Ermal’s, of course, because together they are Poetry.)
In Italy we don’t say “our Sanremo boyfriendsTM will make Europe fall in love with them like there’s no tomorrow at Eurovision 2018” but we say “Metamoro” and I think it’s beautiful.
I love how eurovision slogans are always about love, peace and unity but in reality there are millions of people all over Europe just shouting angrily at their TV and declaring war against nations that gave them 0 points ahhhh
