«This was my last episode of ‘X Factor’, I’ve had a very nice journey in the last 10 years, but it’s time for me to turn the page and change». Before announcing Casadilego’s victory, Alessandro Cattelan surprisingly makes another announcement: will leave conducting the Sky talent show after 10 editions. «For me, a program is not ending, an era is ending. I imagined a different ending, with a lot of people, but it was a special year “, he continues, before thanking the people who worked with him:” I know I will put them in difficulty, but I know they will understand “.
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Then melancholy gives way to joy for the magical voice by Casadilego who, as predicted, wins the “X Factor 2020”: Elisa Coclite, 17-year-old from the Under Donne team of Hell Raton, won the duel with the rockers Little Pieces of Marmelade, surprisingly second in front of the trapper Blind and the extravagant NAIP Casadilego made its way into the public after an evening of duets with the judges, medleys and unreleased songs aired yesterday on Sky Uno and in the clear on Tv8: family of musicians, green-blue hair a la Billie Eilish, love for Ed Sheeran professed in the stage name that refers to one of her songs, Elisa was born in Bellante (Teramo), she studies the piano and plays the guitar. A path that promised well from the beginning, able to move Manuel Agnelli at the auditions and to record over 2.5 million views with the video of the audition.
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But the final of “X Factor” saw four diametrically opposed competitors lined up against each other: the first to leave is NAIP, theatrical, entertaining, but by his own admission astonished to have reached the final. Then, surprisingly, Blind was eliminated, in favor of Little Pieces of Marmelade, a revenge of the guitars on the much inflated autotune. And if in the end it is contemporary pop that triumphs, this edition will be remembered for having brought different categories and genres of music back to the center, as well as for being the freest and most fluid ever, with the repeated appeals of the judges to always be themselves.
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At the 14th edition, the Sky talent found himself facing multiple challenges: to give new polish to mechanisms that are now known, oiled and perhaps a little bored and to be able to do so in the middle of a pandemic, with all the limitations of the case. So the music turned on at the “X Factor Arena” in the face of 8 thousand tampons, 300 liters of disinfectant and more than 20 thousand masks used, summarized Cattelan at the opening of the evening, showing the numbers of an edition that also saw 26 million votes and 50 million streams for competitors. But in addition to the unknowns given by the Coronavirus (Cattelan himself had to stop for a few episodes, replaced by Daniela Collu), the talent has taken on new musical unknowns: the competitors presented themselves from the first episode with their unpublished and were “launched »Immediately in the sea of streaming, an indicator of what the audience (or at least the more” young “part) hears once the television is turned off. The debate among the judges has ignited precisely about what will happen “after” and “outside”: the hope is that, in one way or another, the music for the new boys of “X Factor” will continue to turn well. While for the talent, now, the unknown is on the new conductor.
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December 10, 2020 (change December 11, 2020 | 01:16)
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