After Biagio Antonacci (after the surprise piano tribute by Gigi D’Alessio a Pino Daniele), closes the sexy queen Elodie. In the middle the singing catwalk of «Radio Italia live» which seems like a Festivalbar without competition and with the band directed by Bruno Santori.
After Rose Villain, very low-cut, the third to come out on stage in Piazza del Plebiscito is Rocco Hunt and his latest single, “Italian music”, becomes the symbol of this strange beginning of summer, between sultry heat and bad weather, aspiring catchphrases and the search for something different. The rapper from Salerno closes his set (three songs) with «A good morning»sung in chorus by all twenty thousand people crowded under the stage, who knows how many will follow it all live on the radio or on Sky One and similar.
“It’s a circle that closes,” he says. mister Straw hat«ten years ago, at Sanremo, before I started singing that piece, there was Luca Colombo’s guitar. And it’s there again tonight, with the original riff».
It’s a strange summer on the pop front, too. Alessandra Amoroso and Article 31 they alternate seasonal materials with historical ones (and a blitz by Rocco Hunt), Angelina Mango (“Melodrama”, “Che t’o dico a fa”, “La noia”) is welcomed by the audience with the affection – or rather: love – reserved for home-grown artists, is one of the real novelties of the year, her voice but also her movements and age help her to stage a contemporary pop, but not an empty one.
Alessandra Amoroso, Francesco Gabbanithe very tender ones Rich and Poor and Irama they are protagonists rather than showmen, that’s why we await the conclusion: which puts Tananai among the sexy prima donnas Annalisa (from “Bellissima” to “Sinceramente”, plus “Pezzi freschi” with the same Tananai) ed Elodie (from “Black Nirvana” to “Tribale”). Just like in a final of Festivalbar, who also passed through this square. But without the competition it’s easier, with the orchestra it’s certainly more beautiful.
Who knows if owner Mario Volantifounder and president of Radio Italyhas already booked piazza del Plebiscite for next year, if he will do it in the next few days. The good living room of Naples is also popular on TV, we know: after the show of D’Alessio & friends, after yesterday evening’s mainstream carousel, the final of «X Factor» for December 5th. The Mayor Manfredi thank you, having focused on the “Naples city of music” project has worked, now we need to speed up the construction of the sports hall in the business center, the city of music cannot be turned off when summer ends.
«This is a strange summer», he repeats in the backstage Rocco Hunt«maybe because of the climate, maybe because there is a need to change the sound. Instead of the umpteenth reggaeton-themed hit, I focused on a different piece, to announce the upcoming album: I return to the urban poet, to social lyrics, to hip hop. Maybe right back to my beginnings: Oilier – that to the Maradona he accomplished an amazing feat and also remembered that I was among the first to believe in him and to duet with him – it made me want to somehow rework my very first mixtape, “Glimpse of the suburbs”or at least to that rawer sound”, he concludes.
Actually, no, because before leaving he lets slip a piece of news: «Charles Conti he called me, he said: “We have to see each other”. We will see each other again. Rocco Hunt in Sanremo? Even if the rules – which can always be changed – prohibit the use of Neapolitan? He smiles and runs away: in Piazza del Plebiscito, with «Radio Italia live», it’s a good night. Even if Italian music is not all here, it’s not just pop. And a little more newpolitan power would have been good.
