Yes, no, maybe. While the rumor began to circulate again that the two sexiest singers in Italian music could become co-hosts of the Sanremo Festival, yesterday Elodie splashed around in the fountain of San Babila, Milan: nude looks, dancers and lots of wet t-shirts were useful to launch Black Nirvana, his new single, and to confuse the ideas of many. “Do you like Carlo Conti?” Vanity Fair asked her. And she: «It gives security, he has already been on the Ariston stage, it brings serenity». Which made many believe that yes, perhaps 2025 will be the hottest edition of the Italian song festival: «No, now I’m focused on music. Then who knows, I always welcome what comes. It would be a good thing for Annalisa.” Meanwhile, Elodie has also managed to create all the anticipation she wanted to promote the two events in the stadiums for her “Elodie The Stadium Show”: thus the sale of tickets has begun which will take her to the San Siro Stadium on 8 June 2025 in Milan and on 12 June 2025 at the Maradona Stadium in Naples. In short, yet another advertising move or just another, more strategic way to sell her shows? Let me know.
The lives of the two pop queens who some have always claimed to be enemies are almost intertwined, only to be denied by the facts when on 9 December 2023 at the Mediolanum Forum in Assago the miracle happened and Annalisa emerged from Elodie’s stage “improvising” together an irresistible duet for her wrapped in a dress of red veils. Precisely for this reason in January it was hinted that Elodie would return the pleasure to her colleague with another important duet but on the Ariston stage: instead, a month later, she showed up in the city of flowers with the Lista Representative singing Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics. What will have happened?
The only certain fact is that Annalisa came third with Sincerely, overtaken by the Geolier of I p’me, tu p’te. Poor star. Both discovered by Amici di Maria De Filippi (the other co-host eligible for Sanremo 2025: yes, again), loved by an audience that doesn’t bat an eyelid every time they choose increasingly minimal outfits showing a mature and determined sensuality (Annalisa is 38 years old, Elodie is 34) have clear voices and complex thoughts and brandish their boldness with the confidence of artists aware of their numbers. The most poisoned claim that both use their body as a marketing tool by sexualizing it to sell records. Instead, they show off their legs without too much trouble not only because they are long and beautifully designed, but also because they are two women who have demonstrated that they know how to make their way above all with their talent.
One graduated in physics and grew up in a house of teachers (mother was a teacher of English, father of mathematics) in Savona, the Roman daughter of a Cubist from Guadalupe and the other with an eighth grade diploma (she dropped out of high school before maturity) have resurrected the myth of Raffaella Carrà and have alternately become the idols of the gay community. Now Annalisa has just published Short Stories, a duet with Tananai, and on June 15th she will be the godmother of Roma Pride, her songs the anthems of the event which turns 30. The next day she will start Tutti nel vortex – outdoor, the tour in which she will perform at summer festivals and which has allowed her to sell over 110 thousand tickets. She became, among other things, the most certified woman of 2024 with 42 platinum, 12 gold and super listened to songs like Mon Amour and Bellissima, her workhorses. After conquering America where she was chosen by Billboard Italia for the “Global Force” award at the Billboard Women in Music, the annual event dedicated to the most influential women in the music industry, she is also the most listened to female artist on Spotify and the first woman to enter the US Billboard global chart in the top 100. So, even assuming that Elodie is still undecided, Carlo Conti could limit himself to confirming Annalisa and her amazing CV studded with records: what is he waiting for?
