by Andrea Laffranchi, sent to Düsseldorf
Four awards for the star, present in Düsseldorf. For Italy, the Nuclear Tactical Penguins are the best. Best Song for Nicky Minaj
Four times Taylor Swift. She is the winner of the MTV Europe Music Awards. The American pop star was voted by the public in the categories of Best Artist, Video, Pop and Long Form Video. Two awards for Nicki Minaj (song featuring “Super Freaky Girl” and hip hop), who aimed for four, just one win for favorite Harry Styles (live), who started with seven nominations. Victory, then, already in sight for the queen of pop stars who, as a teenage country, began the project to dominate the world, a goal that was achieved with record hits. A singer-songwriter who has a fine pen in the category but who avoids edges and splinters and patience as the ingredients are stripped from a greedy dish’s recipe and turned into a pill that adapts to every taste, intolerance and allergy. As in “All Too Well,” the 10-plus minute video directed by Taylor herself, which won awards in both the absolute and longform sections: to tell the end of a story (said to have it written afterwards). the farewell to actor Jake Gyllenhaal) there are more clichés than the many that – says Nanni Moretti – bury the Italian comedy.
We are in that Düsseldorf where Kraftwerk was founded in 1970 and where the pioneers of electronics are honored by the minimalism of the graphics – grids and geometric plays of red and green lights – and by a gigantic head that opens to reveal the scene . The ceremony was led by pop star Rita Ora (also an award for her looks) with director Taika Waititi, also a couple in life: elegant and ironic.
The evening begins with David Guetta and Bebe Rexha with “I’m Good (Blue)”. A pinch of Italy as this is the reworking of Eiffel 65’s “Blue”, an international dance hit of the late ’90s, for which the two have won the Best Collaboration award and the producer is also the most voted electronic producer Category. Muse bring rock energy (their prize is the beaten Måneshaut), flames and a dash of dystopian future with the mirrored masks of the dancers from “Will of the People”.
One Republic put the engines of a jet on stage and was launched by a video by Tom Cruise of “I Ain’t Worried”, the soundtrack of “Top Gun”. Leader Ryan Tedder, author of millionaire hits for Beyoncé, Adele, Taylor Swift and more, is the antidivo par excellence. When he drove alone through the city on a rented scooter, he allowed himself to be intercepted: “I love Italy, next summer I’m going on vacation for a month. But first we could be guests at the Sanremo Festival: I know that it is a very important appointment and we are talking about it ». A showcase is for “Cracker Island” from Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz Saturday Concert (best choices). Stormzy and Debbie sing the romantic “Firebabe” bathed in hundreds of swaying red lights: Rappers have hearts too. The building is colored yellow and blue for the performance of the Kalush Orchestra, the Ukrainian band that won the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin. The war also returns in the Generation Change Award, given to Lina Deshvar, Anna Kutova and Anfisa Yakovina, activists who organized aid to those hardest hit by the Russian invasion.
Gayle has such a scary song you won’t understand how it got here. The winners of the best Italian act are the Pinguini Tattici Nucleari, another leg of a special year for the band from Bergamo after the summer tour in front of 300,000 people, the dates in the stadiums for next summer and the upcoming new album: “When Wenn du When writing songs it is important to be open and let yourself be influenced by everything you hear, because music is the most cosmopolitan and fluid art there is – said the leader Riccardo Zanotti -. Being recognized at European level flatters us: we feel European citizens and Italians ».
November 13, 2022 (Change November 13, 2022 | 23:04)
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