Since our last meeting was around music, we decided to go on with the same subject. This time it was for something more cultural. My partner likes Eurovision a lot and watches it every year. In Italy, there’s a big event to choose the artist to send to the contest, this is called ‘Sanremo’. We met up on the evening of this event and watched it together. All the songs were sung in Italian and the hosts were of course Italian as well. When they were saying something important she would translate it for me.
It was a big show with a lot of performances, which I kind of expected it to be.
One of the songs (voce) was on our playlist (previous post), so I already knew it. This was one of her favourites, but the artist didn’t win. While all the artist were performing one by one, she made a prediction of who might win and in the end she was right.
It was fun to see some Italian TV and some of their culture. Now we know who will perform for Italy this year in Eurovision.
We also discussed a little about previous Eurovisions and the times Italy ‘should have’ won.
I was also sure Belgium once won and looked it up, we won in 1986, this was the only time ever Belgium won. The song was in French and not in Dutch, but I decided to show it to her anyway. There were also some more recent ones she already knew and liked.
We also ended up talking a little about the songs we put in the playlist during and after the last session.
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