Sanremo, Madame’s song modified: all other cases

On Friday 16 December Amadeus announced the titles of the songs that will compete for the victory of the 73rd edition of the Sanremo Festival

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Among the competitors in the competition Madame who will return to the stage of the Ariston Theater after participating with Voce in 2021

Sanremo Festival 2023, the titles of the songs of the big names in the competition. PHOTO

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According to what was reconstructed by Stefano Mannucci in an article published by Il Fatto Quotidiano on Sunday 18 December, the singer would have opted for a change of title

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The song Good in Evil was originally supposed to be called Pu**ana

Paola and Chiara at the Sanremo Festival 2023: this is how they are today. PHOTO

The journalist then reported a series of cases in which the censorship of the Festival would have led to the modification of the lyrics of some artists’ songs

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Among these we find Lucio Dalla who would have modified March 4, 1943, initially foreseen with the verse ‘for thieves and whores my name is Baby Jesus’

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The New Angels would instead have been excluded for the text of Donna Felicità, written by Roberto Vecchioni, in which it was asked who the protagonist would have given ‘the rose’

Sanremo Festival 2023, Chiara Ferragni thanks Amadeus and Gianni Morandi

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Nicola Di Bari instead changed the text of the days of the rainbow from ‘you lay as a child, you already rose as a woman’ to ‘you were a child’

Sanremo Festival 2023, the video of Amadeus and Gianni Morandi

Space for Vasco Rossi who would have changed I go from ‘as the grocer says, over there they all chew whole leaves’ to ‘over there everyone is booming’

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Giorgio Faletti, on the other hand, would have removed the word ‘min*hia’ from the title of the piece Signor tenente

Gianni Morandi in Sanremo: every time from competitor to guest to co-host. PHOTO

Paolo Rossi and Enzo Jannacci would have replaced the political call ‘Forza Italia!’ with ‘Go Thailand’

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And finally Loredana Bertè would have opted for ‘black glasses, moon’ rather than ‘fuck you moon’

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