Ermal Meta and Noemi, from the social “controversy” to the hosting of the May Day Concert

It was 2018, Ermal Meta he had just won the Sanremo Festival with Fabrizio Moro with the song You haven’t done anything to me, accused of being a plagiarist but then regularly readmitted to the competition. So, two bars of Naomi And Alessandro Cattelan live on TV – one on the origins of the piece and the other on the alleged ones “common places” inside – triggered the response of the Italian-Albanian singer, who wrote on Twitter that “we shouldn’t have talked about those who were absent.”

A controversy he had big resonance on social media – with «Ermal’s fans enraged», as Cattelan told it – but which ended almost immediately with a lot of remote peace massages between the presenter and the singer. After about six years, here it is again Ermal Meta and Noemibut with a completely different spirit: the two artists, in fact, will lead the May Day concertscheduled to Rometo the Circus Maximus (and no longer in Piazza San Giovanni) for Labor Day.

«This new role is Very thrilling», she said to TG3who graced the stage of Concertone in 2012, 2015, 2020 and 2021, «but above all I am happy to do it together with a colleague I respect». «Ditto», he replies, who performed in that show in 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2021. «It will be an event full of fundamental themes: the focus will obviously be on Work and, above all, on the importance of job security which should take on priority contours”.

«The Circus Maximus is the concert square par excellence, it will be a day full of music but the artists will be revealed by Tuesday», conclude the two songwriters in unison, who will be joined by their colleague in this new experience BigMamafresh from the boom of Sanremo, which will present part of the show. «The secret of success of the May Day Concert? People who they want to be together and the music that acts as a glue.”