Non mi avete fatto niente

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Non mi avete fatto niente
Ermal Meta , Fabrizio Moro
publication February 7, 2018
length 3:28
Genre (s) pop
Author (s) Ermal Meta, Fabrizio Moro, Andrea Febo
Publisher (s) Warner Chappell Music Italiana
Label Sony
album Non abbiamo armi
Parole rumori e anni

Non mi avete fatto niente ( Italian for “You couldn't harm me”) is a song by Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro , with which they won the 2018 Sanremo Festival .

background

Both Meta and Moro had already competed several times at the Sanremo Festival : the former in 2006 (newcomer, with the band Ameba ), 2010 (newcomer, with the band La fame di Camilla ), 2016 (newcomer, solo) and 2017 , the latter on the other hand, 2000 (newcomer), 2007 (victory in the newcomer category), 2008, 2010 and also 2017. After the 2017 festival, the Cantautori met again in the summer during their respective tours. Moro received worried feedback from fans after the terrorist attack in Manchester on May 22, 2017 , prompting him to write a song against fear and terror . He then contacted Meta, whose performances had made an impression on him, and together with the songwriter Andrea Febo, with whom Moro had already worked several times, the song Non mi avete fatto niente was written , originally not with the idea of ​​submitting it for Sanremo .

Sanremo participation

On December 15, 2017, Meta and Moro's participation in the 2018 festival was officially announced. Even before the event began and the song was published, the contribution was in first place in the betting odds. After the song was first presented to the public on February 7, 2018, the festival's opening night, controversy arose after it was pointed out online that the chorus of the song was very similar to Silenzio by Ambra Calvani and Gabriele De Pascali: the latter , also from the pen of Andrea Febo, was submitted in 2016 for the newcomer category of the festival 2017, but without making it through the preselection; in addition, it was never published commercially, but was already performed at the Musicultura event in Macerata . Confronted with these allegations, Metas and Moro's participation was initially suspended until the music commission of the festival decided to re-authorize the song, as the parts of the chorus that were taken over made up no more than a third of the song, as stipulated by the rules.

On the fourth evening of the festival, Meta and Moro performed together with Simone Cristicchi . Finally, the song was able to prevail in the final with 44.66% clearly against Lo Stato Sociale (28.40%) and Annalisa (26.94%). In addition, TIM awarded it a special prize as the most listened to Sanremo song on the TIMmusic streaming app .

Eurovision Song Contest

At the end of the Sanremo Festival, Metas and Moro's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 for Italy was announced. The song was slightly shortened there, but otherwise performed unchanged. To make the Italian text clearer, alternating translations in 15 languages ​​were also displayed. In the final on May 12, 2018, the entry received 59 points from the national juries, but ended up in third place in the televoting and came in fifth with 308 points.

Scoring for Italy
Points country
jury Televoting
12 points Albania Germany , Malta , Albania
10 points Malta France , Austria , Portugal , Slovenia , Croatia
8 points Cyprus , Serbia Switzerland , Greece , Moldova , Montenegro , San Marino
7 points - Spain , Cyprus, Netherlands , Estonia , Lithuania
6 points - Belgium , Finland , Macedonia , Hungary , Latvia , Romania , Russia , Bulgaria , Serbia
5 points - Israel , Poland , Azerbaijan , Ukraine , Georgia
4 points Portugal, Finland, Montenegro, San Marino Belarus
3 points Spain Armenia
2 points - Czech Republic
1 point Greece, Russia -

content

The lyrics are about the fear of terror; Mention is made of the terrorist attack in Barcelona on August 17, 2017 , the attack in the Bataclan Theater in November 2015 , the attack in Nice in July 2016, and the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and July 7, 2005 . The title of the song, “You couldn't harm me”, refers to an open letter that the husband of a victim of the Bataclan attack posted on Facebook with the heading “You will not get my hate”. Simone Cristicchi recited parts of this letter as an introduction to the song when they performed together on the fourth evening of the festival. Further topics are the equality of religions and the senselessness of violence, perché tutto va oltre le vostre inutili guerre (“because everything goes far beyond your senseless wars”).

music

The song begins with the first verse, sung by Ermal Meta, followed immediately by the second by Fabrizio Moro. After Meta's first chorus, drums and rhythm guitar kick in and Moro and Meta each sing half of the third verse until Moro kicks in with the second chorus. The bridge is melodiously a continuation of the verse, followed by a transition sung by Meta with a head voice . Together, the singers finally repeat the chorus again, which ends in a final movement of the two. Musically, the song has folk echoes.

Music video

The music video for the song shows images of war, destruction and mourning, interrupted by close-ups of children and (towards the end) of the two singers. It's subtitled throughout , with the lyrics being translated into a variety of languages ​​in turns. During the final iteration of the chorus, the war recordings are played backwards and the singers and children begin to dance. Finally, an ultrasound image of a child in the womb with a beating heart can be seen.

Commercial win

The song debuted at number 19 on the Italian charts the week before the Sanremo finals.

Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Italy (FIMI) Italy (FIMI) 2 (16 weeks) 16
Switzerland (IFPI) Switzerland (IFPI) 16 (3 weeks) 3

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Andrea Laffranchi: Sanremo 2018, Meta e Moro: "Una canzone contro la paura nata dopo l'attentato di Manchester". In: Corriere.it . January 26, 2018, accessed February 11, 2018 (Italian).
  2. ↑ Meta-Moro in testa per i bookmaker Anche Ron e Gazzè tra i favoriti. In: Corriere.it. February 5, 2018, accessed February 11, 2018 (Italian).
  3. ^ Gianni Santoro: Sanremo 2018, Meta-Moro e il rischio squalifica. La replica: “La canzone rispetta il regolamento”. In: Repubblica.it . February 7, 2018, accessed February 11, 2018 (Italian).
  4. ↑ Alessandro Alicandri: Ermal Meta e Fabrizio Moro spiegano com'è nata "Non mi avete fatto niente". In: Sorrisi.com . Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, February 8, 2018, accessed February 11, 2018 (Italian).
  5. ^ Victor M. Escudero, Paul Jordan: Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro win Sanremo 2018 in Italy. In: Eurovision.tv. EBU, February 11, 2018, accessed on February 11, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Evert Groot: Italy translates 'Non Mi Avete Fatto Niente' into 15 languages. In: Eurovision.tv. EBU , May 4, 2018, accessed May 13, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Silvia Gianatti: Ermal Meta e Fabrizio Moro: "L'Euro vision? È un palco che crea dipendenza ». In: VanityFair.it. May 13, 2018, accessed May 14, 2018 (Italian).
  8. ^ Grand Final - Scoreboard: Italy. In: Eurovision.tv. EBU, accessed May 13, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Sanremo 2018, Simone Cristicchi: ecco la lettera letta prima del duetto con Ermal Meta e Fabrizio Moro. In: 105.net. February 10, 2018, accessed February 11, 2018 (Italian).
  10. ^ Archivio classifiche Top Digital. FIMI, accessed February 16, 2018 (Italian).
  11. ↑ Charts CH
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