Sanremo 2021.

I'm not talking about the performances of artists who performed.

Those have even taken a back seat.

I'm talking about the context of a music festival devoted to an urge to return to an old normality that no longer exists, in such a historical moment.

Many music festivals all over the world have been cancelled, with great economic losses.

I don't want to say that Sanremo shouldn't have been held, but it could have taken on a very different slant and imprint. Deeper. Without heaviness. Lightness. Instead, there was only superficiality.

A forcing to sing in such a context without an audience. A penetrating emptiness. Poorly filled.

A silence that demanded respect, that screamed truth. But no. A normal festival. One that wanted to entertain and perhaps lighten up, but failed to do so at all. Everything was out of place. Out of time. Aseptic, detached. Disconnected from reality, the real one. Even a little pathetic.

An uncomfortable discordance.

Yet something much more real could have been done. Instead of this grotesque farce that moves the "feeling of the opposite".

It could have been a festival that highlighted the current situation (instead of hiding it behind an asphyctic veil) that told the story and made the artists who performed also tell their position in this very hard year for this sector. Light, deep, fair words, not overflowing, but communicating and telling. Giving a new and purposeful atmosphere and voice.

There is nothing to celebrate at this moment, except to be grateful to be still here.

Perhaps the silence and not the derisory "nonsense" that came out at several moments.

We no longer speak only about culture or ignorance, but first of all of sensitivity.