Sanremo, Bellucci package, Junior Cally on stand by

Monica Bellucci is called out: there won't be "for greater causes". Two weeks after its debut, Sanremo 2020 has to deal with the diva's forfeit and with the storm that rages on Junior Cally, the masked Roman rapper at the center of the controversies for violent sentences and against women contained in a piece of 2017 , Witch. After the age of Rai president Marcello Foa, Alberto Barachini (FI) is the chairman of the Supervisory Authority to write to Foa himself and to Fabrizio Salini to ask to prevent Ariston "from spreading messages that are harmful to rights and dignity of the person, or framed in the hate speech phenomenon ". Meanwhile - from the League to the Democratic Party, from Forza Italia to Leu - the tam tam to ask Viale Mazzini to intervene continues. The Cally case was at the center of a meeting between Salini and the new Rai1 director Stefano Coletta, in constant contact with Amadeus, engaged in Sanremo in the rehearsals of the festival. A decision will come shortly, but according to what is learned only after a careful evaluation of the positions that emerged in these hours, with the utmost respect for all opinions. No impulsivity, but caution and balance, is the position of the ad: at stake there are stinging themes, the change of common sense, but also a 'retroactive' analysis of the texts that so far has never been taken into consideration and that would require a modification of the regulation. Amadeus, like the artistic directors who preceded him, listened to the proposed songs (and that of Junior Cally, No thanks, with references not too veiled to Matteo Salvini and Matteo Renzi, he also convinced the critics) and the legal department has made his assessments on the artists. Meanwhile, Bellucci slips out: "Mr. Amadeus and I met months ago hypothesizing a project together. Unfortunately for major reasons we have not succeeded in our end. I wish him and his team a nice Festival and I hope in another possibilities in the future, "says the actress through her press office. A defection that comes after that of Salmo, widely announced as a guest of the early evening. But it is on Cally that the attentions of the Palace are still concentrated, confirming the fact that Sanremo, the Rai par excellence event, ends up catalysing political tensions. "Sanremo has had great interpreters to represent the talent, competence and authority of women. This year there is a bad message that offends women. We are all called into question," writes Dem Secretary Nicola Zingaretti on Twitter, while Laura Boldrini talks about "chilling texts" of Junior Cally and asks for an apology from the artistic director. "Rai and Amadeus take immediate measures", hopes the blue Mariastella Gelmini. The hardest one is Matteo Salvini: "I am ashamed of that singer who compares women as sluts, raped, kidnapped, raped and used as objects. You do it at home, not live on Rai and on behalf of Italian music", he writes on Twitter . Phrases that end up in the sights of the Democratic Party: Matteo Orfini in particular arises, reminding Salvini of the "inflatable doll" that he brought to the stage "to offend Boldrini". Fiorello takes sides with his friend Amadeus. The face 'masked' by a scarf, post a video on Instagram and ironically: "As an anonymous I will propose the death penalty for you: for what you are doing, for what you represent. Since you were a saint, you are now the worst man in Italy, a sexist ". "There are always controversies, but that's enough", echoes Antonella Clerici, one of the ladies of the festival. Much criticism, however, Michelle Hunziker: "Many of us are looking to reverse a deeply mistaken culture with respect to the perception that women have in this country ... but evidently not enough". From the musical front, Enzo Mazza calls for "utmost caution": "Rap, and more generally urban music, is made up of often very raw and direct forms of language", recalls the CEO of Fimi, underlining that, to get closer to young people, the festival "has necessarily had to deal with a 'difficult' repertoire for the traditional audience. But it is an irreversible evolution". For this reason "there are controversies, censorship, perhaps preventive, certainly not". Also for Paola Zukar, lady of Italian rap, manager of artists such as Fabri Fibra, Marracash, Clementino, "you can't take rap, bring it to the Festival, then unpack the lyrics and decontextualize them. So you don't go anywhere".