sanremo festival 2009

It's that time of year again. Tomorrow night is the finale. These are my favorites. This first one, Arisa, singin *Sincerita*, is so cute. She is so nervous! I love the song. Adorable. She is in the *young, unknown artist* category.

The others, Dolcenera, singing *Il mio amore unico*, and Francesco Renga, singing *l'uomo senza età* who are two of my all time favs!

And this third one I like, by Povia, who won last year. There was a lot of controversy surounding his song, before the festival, because the title of his song is Luca era gay (Luca was gay). It is about a guy who used to be in a gay relationship, but is now married to a woman.

All the other artist videos are here.

Hugh Hefner was there, for I believe the launch of Italian Playboy and the anniversary of Playboy. He was on stage, with his three girlfriends, and the current Bunny, and some lady ran up on the stage naked. She yelled something, but you couldn't hear her. I thought maybe she was from Peta, but couldn't get the connection to Hugh Hefner.... haha

Turns out she is a porno star, Laura Perego, so she, I guess, was trying to get Hugh's attention. I don't think it worked... afterwards he asked, "was the a joke? was that for real?" haha

UPDATE: Yeah! Arisa won for her category, new artists!!

But, I am very bummed that Dolcenera didn't make it through the cut last night. I don't know HOW that happened. grrr

But, yeah for Arisa!