They’re back

Raphael Gualazzi

Italy is a good song right up until about 65 seconds in where Raphael Gualazzi sounds like a chicken!! – this song is wrong, wrong so wrong after that and its just not fitting in – again, though, its going to get the juries voting for it because it is, after all, the kind of thing they will be instructed to vote for… I think the staging is clever with the pianos and stuff in the background and the muted trumpets, but I think vocally rather than visually its too messy for the ears of Europe to vote for in droves.