(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 18 - In the youth festival, Lo StatoSociale - with an average age of its 5 members around 35 years old and already ten years of career behind it - will pass by being on the side of the "great".
"It's a great satisfaction. A total hottie - says Alberto" Bebo "Guidetti, founder of the Bolognese group together with Lodo Guenzi and Alberto Cazzola -. Such a thing would have been unthinkable only three or four years ago. Everything has changed very quickly and finally the festival tells us really the music that is in Italy at the moment.
On an artistic level it is a multifaceted representation of the landscape ".
For Lo Stato Sociale it is a return to Ariston, after the dazzling debut of 2018, when with their Una vitain Vacanza (and the old woman who dances) they shocked the theater, coming in second place behind Fabrizio Moro and Ermal Meta .
"While we were backstage and waited for the result - he says -, we were there saying: 'we hope not to win, we hope not to win, we hope not to win'. And luckily it was so, The Social State wins when it does not win".
And so no desire to try to be on top of everyone again?
"The day we win, the group will break up.
So no."
But hunger comes with eating and perhaps the five Bolognese boys have a little taste, to decide to be back on that stage.
"Impossible, when you know what awaits you in Sanremo. Now we are a little more aware".
At the festival, they say, they come back - with Combat Pop, "a transparent and genuine song, which brings our vision of the world more than a story".
Never before has the festival assumed a particular value as this year, after almost a year of stoppage for the culture and live entertainment sector.
"Ours was one of the sectors most affected by the crisis. But it was also an opportunity for the first time to really compact ourselves. And the festival can be an opportunity to carry forward the demands of this world and to tell about it".
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