New episode and new elimination for the evening show Friends 23. Also Saturday 4 May the audience of Channel 5 was able to enjoy many performances by the young aspiring artists participating in the talent show led by Maria De Filippi. Judging the performances, as they always were called upon Michele Bravi, Giuseppe Giofrè And Cristiano Malgioglio .
The episode of Friends 23 on Saturday 4 May 2024 starts with the clash between the team of Anna Pettinelli And Raimondo Todarowith their only remaining student, Martina, and the team of Lorella Cuccarini and Emanuel Lo. Martina, obviously, is the protagonist of all the challenges, but in the end she succumbs to her and her teacher Anna Pettinelli ends up crying with anger because she says that the girl is not considered for the great talent she has. In particular the situation becomes heated following a glove on the vocal range, launched by Pettinelli herself which sees her as the protagonist of a very heated clash with Lorella Cuccarini which reopens the endless debate on Sarah who has long been the target of Pettinelli’s criticism in the past months. The fact is that, at the end of the heat, Martina ends up in the run-off.
Second heat and second clash between teams pits Zerbi-Cele against Cucca-Lo. In this round one glove is assigned by default, another is cancelled. The team succumbs Rudy Zerbi And Alessandra Celentano and ending up in the final ballot is Dustin, for the first time.
Third heat, Cucca-Lo again against Zerbi-Celentano, the latter win the challenge. To challenge Martina and Dustin to the final ballot ends He gives me. After the first round of performances, Dustin was the one to immediately save himself. Martina and Mida compete for the last time with their two unreleased songs. Martina has to go out. The team of Anna Pettinelli and Raimondo Todaro therefore remains without students.
This evening, there were many beautiful and engaging moments, but also those that were less convincing. Here’s what they were, in our opinion.
Amci 23, Top of the episode of Saturday 4 May 2024
Martina, vote: 9 Friends or not Friendsas we have already written, this girl has a talent and even in this episode, it ended with hers elimination, he proved it. We mention at least two performances: his interpretation of Dog days are over of Florence and the machine and his Back to black. Both interpretations see her coming out of the battle as the loser, first against Midas and then against Sarah, and honestly one is left a bit stunned by these jury verdicts, even if it is true that the final is approaching and it is increasingly difficult to assign a point . The unreleased song is also beautiful, the last song put on the ballot before leaving the talent show. Although the girl went into crisis for fear of being considered just a beautiful voice but she was unable to excite, this is absolutely not the case and he proved it again tonight.
Anna Pettinelli, rating: 7.5 We give this vote to your teacher. for having defended Martina like a tiger, reaching the point of tears of anger and lashing out against Malgioglio and the other judges, always full of compliments for their singer but who, in the end, hardly recognize her point, always speaking only of the beautiful voice. Something that sent the girl into crisis, disappointed at not being able to emotionally touch the jury. “I get emotional because not she was recognized for what she is worth!” says Pettinelli, explaining her tears. And she’s not entirely wrong.
Sarah, rating: 8 Even on Sarah it is right to reiterate the great journey, because even tonight she doesn’t make a mistake and even the person who has tormented her most in recent months at the school, Anna Pettinelli, must recognize how much she has grown. Tonight she tries to put her in serious difficulty with a glove on the vocal range against Martina, but she does very well even in a test which, according to Pettinelli, should have seen her succumb. So much so that the teacher herself says of her, applauding her: “No, you were good Sarah, exceeding expectations“without failing to add a venomous: “He did what he could”, rekindling the polemical clash with Lorella Cuccarini who rightly defends her singer, who deserves it.
Midas, rating: 7.5 Five days, The football draft of the class of ’68, Take me out to dance. Three songs light years away from the repertoire that Mida served up to us in nine months, raising the barricades every time someone tried to challenge him on terrain that was less comfortable for him. This evening, finally, he puts himself to the test on songs that are very distant, at least apparently, from his world and he does it well, returning original versions. Better late than never.
Maria de Filippi, vote: 8 “Angelina Mango also had a great voice last year and at a certain point she had to deal with this voice, but as with you, the voice is the first thing you notice, but you’re not just that. You have an important voice, but you are important” Like this Maria De Filippi tries to reassure Martina before the last performance of the ballot, because the girl is tested not only by this last evening, but by a period in which she reflects on this fact that she is sorry to be considered a beautiful voice, but not capable of interpreting or transmitting emotions. The presenter gives the same vote if she deserves it too when, at a certain point, at the end of one of the performances of He gives me he says to the singer, bluntly: “I would like to hear that you are happy”, to underline that the singer is often tense, anxious and also busy thinking about who knows what strategy. And in fact the presenter adds: “He’s Machiavellian, he thinks about this bullshit all day.” And then she gives him valuable advice: “You have to sing, don’t think about playing chess!” And let’s hope that Midas takes the hint.
Flop
Holden, rating:3: “I’ve been working at 6 in the morning for three weeks, it was a glove that I could have fun doing, I delivered an EP tonight at 6 in the morning, preparing the EP and the episode is quite challenging, I started working on the glove but at 7 in the morning I understood that there was nothing to do. Nothing to take away from the other guys, but I take care of the EP in every detail, it’s not just sending the voice”. Also in this episode of Friends 23 not one is missing long complaint. This time it is Holden who justifies himself by pining for the super work for which he was unable to prepare the challenge thrown by Lorella Cuccarini on the subject of creativity against Mida. A lost point for which he obviously pays the price of his entire team. When it’s time for the challenge, Rudi Zerbi takes the floor to explain that his student failed to prepare for the test (and didn’t even warn him). At this point Holden’s long justification begins. Lorella Cuccarini points out to him that his companions also work as much as he does on the unreleased songs, he reiterates that, being a producer, he has to think of all the details alone and says a thousand thousand times that he worked until six in the morning for the EP. In the end, however, the chatter comes to naught the very busy Holden who did not prepare his challenge loses the point by default. He loses it and, obviously, it he loses for his entire team. At the end of the heat his teammate goes to the final ballot Dustin.
Glove cancelled, vote: sv Incomprehensible. This evening there is a gauntlet, thrown down by Alessandra Celentano, in which you are asked to judge “excellence”, a glove that is absurd for how it starts, how it continues and how it ends. In fact, teacher Celentano makes you challenge Dustin, a dancer, against Midas, a singer. Not only that, the one who invokes the gauntlet is not the one who threw it, but the rival teacher, Lorella Cuccarini, who not only accepted it, but is enthusiastic about the number prepared by Midas, Take me out to dance, and asks her to use it. Finally the outcome, inevitable, with the three judges who didn’t understand well: how should they judge the “excellence” of two artists who do two different things like singing and dancing? Glove cancelled.
