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Soma would love “Occidentali’s karma”
Forza France’ sei tutti noi!!!
I hope that this year my country will finally be able to win #Eurovision after its return in the competition in 2011. So here are the last six Italian competitors singing their “good luck” to Francesco’s “Occidentali’s karma”. I love that song.
Francesco Gabbani - Occidentali’s Karma
Essere o dover essere to be or to have to be Il dubbio amletico the hamletic doubt Contemporaneo come l’uomo del neolitico as contemporary as the Neolithic man Nella tua gabbia 2x3 mettiti comodo make yourself comfortable in your tiny little cage Intellettuali nei caffè cafes full of intellectuals Internettologi* internetologists Soci onorari al gruppo dei Selfisti Anonimi honorary members of Selfiers Anonymous L’intelligenza è démodé intelligence is outdated
* interenttologo is a made up word consisting of the words internet + logo + -ista, based on words like psicologo and dentista Risposte facili easy answers Dilemmi inutili useless dilemmas AAA cercasi (cerca sì) storie dal gran finale stories with a great ending wanted (find them) Sperasi (spera sì) hopefully (do hope) Comunque vada panta rei however it goes panta rei And singing in the rain and singing in the rain
Lezioni di Nirvana nirvana lessons C’è il Buddha in fila indiana there’s Buddha in a line Per tutti un’ora d’aria, di gloria an hour of yard time for everyone, an hour of glory La folla grida un mantra the crowd shouts a mantra L’evoluzione inciampa evolution falters La scimmia nuda balla the naked monkey’s dancing Occidentali’s Karma Westerns’ karma Occidentali’s Karma Westerns’ karma La scimmia nuda balla the naked monkey’s dancing Occidentali’s Karma Westerns’ karma
Piovono gocce di Chanel Chanel drops are raining Su corpi asettici over aseptic bodies Mettiti in salvo dall’odore dei tuoi simili flee from your fellows’ smell Tutti tuttologi col web everyone’s a know-it-all thanks to the internet Coca dei popoli drug of the peoples Oppio dei poveri opium of the poors AAA cercasi (cerca si) umanità virtuale virtual humanity wanted (go find it) Sex appeal (sex appeal) sex appeal (sex appeal) Comunque vada panta rei however it goes panta rei And singing in the rain and singing in the rain
Quando la vita si distrae cadono gli uomini when life gets distracted, men fall down Occidentali’s Karma westerns’ karma Occidentali’s Karma westerns’ karma La scimmia si rialza the monkey rises again Namasté, alé Namaste, alé
you gotta respect italy for sending every type of gay in the lgbt spectrum within the past ten years
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In order of appearance:
Francesco Gabbani (Italy) O.Torvald (Ukraine) Ilinca + Alex Florea (Romania) Nathan Trent (Austria) Blanche (Belgium) Omar Naber (Slovenia) Alma (France) Robin Bengtsson (Sweden) Manel Navarro (Spain) JOWST + Aleksander Walmann (Norway) Levina (Germany) Triana Park (Latvia) Kasia Moś (Poland) Claudia Faniello (Malta) Norma John (Finland) Slavko Kalezić (Montenegro) Lucie Jones (United Kingdom) Martina Bárta (Czech Republic)