Writer Maurizio De Giovanni Questions the Judgement of Sanremo 2024 Press and Radio

"Are you sure you know how to do your job, yes?" Comments thus, on Facebook, the writer Maurizio De Giovanni, the vote of the press and radio that overturned the televote in favor of Geolier in the final evening of the Sanremo 2024 festival. De Giovanni, who had been among those who criticized the spelling of the Neapolitan rapper's song, now reflects on the 60% of preferences in the televote. "More than anything else, I would raise the problem of the enormous difference between the so-called 'technical' judgment and popular taste. Especially when the 'technical' judgment is expressed by those who, in fact, have as their primary objective the interpretation of popular taste. Are you sure you know how to do your job, yes?", concludes the writer. Before the start of the Sanremo Festival, the Neapolitan writer had also commented on the "dialect" issue that had accompanied the text of the song "I p' me, tu p' te" that Geolier presented at the Ariston and with which he then closed in second place in the singing competition. De Giovanni had expressed some doubts about the Neapolitan expressed: "But I always cheered for him", he had said.