Rome, 9 May 2024 – There are suggestions from Umberto Tozzi and Raf and the determination of Måneskin in the postcard that introduces the set with which Angelina Mango this is played Eurovision 2024. The way chosen by the organizers to link the past and present of the event they see the daughter of Pino Mango and Laura Valente on TV already this evening for a taste of what Saturday’s performance will be like, when the highly coveted “douze points” will be at stake.
Angelina is one of the announced protagonists of a marathon to the last vote of which the bookmakers have already indicated, in their sole discretion, the top, assigning (yesterday’s data) 35% of the chances of victory to the Croatian Baby Lasagna (the Istrian Marko Purišić, comments are superfluous on his stage name and on a song that combines heavy metal and folk, mentioning cows and cats), 17% to the Swiss non-binary Nemo, 10% to Angelina with Boredom, 8% to the Ukrainians Al’ona Al’ona and Jerry Heil. Although the most reliable indications will begin to arrive tomorrow, when the billboard will be definitively formed with the outcome of the second semi-final broadcast tonight (with Italian viewers able to vote). Angelina’s set, embellished with five dancers and choreographies by Mecnun Giasar, not exactly the first one since she has worked with Madonna, Billie Eilish and Rosalia, plunges it into a fairy-tale context on a scene characterized by a large throne of intertwined branches formed with a shower of red flowers and the scorching finale of a cascade of fire. Much of the performance is technologically high quality. Musically a little less. San Marino is also in the race.
And while yesterday for the pro-Palestine protests the Öresund bridge with Denmark was also closed, and a controversy broke out over Swedish singer Eric Saade, whose father is Palestinian, who wore a keffiyeh wrapped around his wrist during his performance on Tuesday at the opening of the first semi-final (” a sad gesture”, Ebu producer Ebba Adielsson defined it; “racist reaction”, Saade wrote on his social networks), it is certain that the protagonist of this second semi-final tonight will be the Israeli Eden Golan, with that Hurricane continuing to keep tension high in the Malmö area. Why the “continental Sanremo” it is also a political fact and there are those who, analyzing the numbers, say that if the Jewish community managed to ensure that the Israeli representative received 10% of votes in each country, Golan would certainly be on the podium. Not a far-fetched fact, as you well know Marco Mengoni relegated last year by Noa Kirel to fourth place, only by 12 votes. The Israeli community is, in fact, one of the communities closest to its representatives. It is not for nothing that former prime minister Neftali Bennett last year, some time before the devastating attacks of 7 October, had given advice to those who were worried about the increasingly frequent infiltration of militiamen who were knocking on the door posing as soldiers of the forces of defense: “Before opening, ask them if they know who represented Israel at the last Eurovision. If I’m Arab terrorists they won’t know for sure.”
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