Sanremo 2025: we have seen the general tests. Here is our story

Better on Monday at Ariston to see the general tests of the first evening of the Sanremo Festival alone … there is nothing better!

The theater is filled with a particular energy, suspended between the concentrated silence of the technicians and the ferment of the artists who go on stage for a last developed before the great debut. This is the moment when the songs finally take definitive form, enriched by the orchestral arrangements that will accompany them nationally. Lights, sounds, looks: everything is ready, but nothing is still definitive.

Here you listen to the first reactions, nuances are grasped that escape a first distracted listening and you already see those who could leave their mark. Impressions to the second listening, with the orchestra. Just as we will hear the pieces tomorrow, February 11, during the first evening broadcast on Rai 1. With the asterisk those who convinced us most.

The comments

Gaia – I call you call you
We dance and dance her too. Rhythm and refrain that enters your head and no longer comes out. Radio are already ready.

Francesco Gabbani – Long live life
The orchestra makes the piece even more beautiful. He never made a shot here in Sanremo. He doesn't even miss him in his fourth participation.

Rkomi – The rhythm of things
The “e” are so open that there is no doubt that it is marching on it. An arrangement overlooking the words. And a white jacket overlooking the chest (naked). At least in trial.

Noemi – If you fall in love, die*
What a text, guys! And that made vocal on a growing piece that seems sewn on her. Podium perfume.

Irama – slowly
The unexpected thing is the battery that suddenly enters the middle of the song. Bravo because it takes it to sing it. It is not like the ballads that he has accustomed us to in recent years. Belld but not ballad.

Coma_cose – Hearts*
That thing between “there is no longer the indie of the past” and “scent of catchphrase”. Together on the Ariston stage, over the years, romantic on several occasions have been on the years. With “hearts” they are adorable. The piece is already on everyone's mouth.

Simone Cristicchi – When you are small*
Simone Cristicchi made the unthinkable. With this piece dedicated to Alzheimer's sick mother, he touched those emotional ropes that if the interceptions do not cry is impossible. And what a voice in the special!

Marcella Bella – Diamante leather
Attempt of contemporaneity that has been successful. And if you expected a ballad you will be disappointed. I heard a little about Loredana Bertè last year but the comparison does not hold up.

Achille Lauro – Youth unconscious*
Lauro understood that he had to continue in the wake of “desperate love” and then that trail followed it mixing a little rock. Podium scent two.

Giorgia – The cure for me*
There is no word or phrase or feeling to fully express what Giorgia does with her voice. The piece has a rhythm that grows up to burst with an acute that has embraced us at the theater and will do the same with those who will look at him from home. Add the words that are a hymn to love yourself. It is made.

Willie Peyote – Thanks but no thanks
Willie Peyote who does Willie Peyote. It is said so now no? With filming of other arrangements, it is among the few critical pieces towards the company. This is why it would deserve a special mention.

Rose Villain – outlaw
An artist who senses who made the center last year what does this year? Continue on that musicality, with that rhythm, with alternating voice and rhythm with fast registration passages. Good!

Shablo feat. Guè, Joshua & Tormento – My word
An urban song but also a little soul but also a little different twins. Four rap exponents but the melody is the master.

Olly – Balorda Nostalgia*
Wins. Because it is the perfect song for Sanremo. Because it tells the simplicity of emotions. Without frills and superstructures. With the orchestra even more.

Elodie – Forget about 7
With this song that little differs from his most famous, Elodie expresses his vocality to the fullest. However, the other Sanremese pieces were better than this. But there is more voice here. But the others were more centered. In short, we understood ourselves.

Massimo Ranieri – A heart in his hands
Tiziano Ferro, Nek and Giulia Anania for a giant of Italian music that makes her but without overdoing it.

Tony Effe – Damme 'na hand
South American sounds, a spoken more than a sung, halfway between Roman Stornello and love poetry. Dignified result.

Serena Brancale – Anem and Core
Energy, voice and passion but far from “cod”. And we ask ourselves: why?

Bruori Sas – The tree of walnuts*
It is like hearing a family voice that tells you a story (which, in this case, is that of his partner and his daughter) this is Bruori.

Modà – I don't forget you
A return perhaps undertone but with a song that does not speak of love (there is a break, yes).

Clara – fever
Here another case of Clara who does Clara. The impressions are the same as when we listened to “rough diamonds” for the first time last year. But the piece turns well, and we move by listening to it.

Fedez – Beat*
It is surprising. Intense and heartfelt piece. Speaks, according to him, of depression. And it does it directly. The “pump” orchestra, such as the speakers, on an arrangement that is anything but banal.

Lucio Corsi – I wanted to be a tough*
The tip of diamond but also the outsider. He emerges as he is. The piece is the most sincere of all and invites the acceptance of their limits.

Bresh – La Tana del Crab
He arrives on tiptoe and takes home a sincere yes. Excellent yield on stage.

Rocco Hunt – a thousand times again
Here is another unexpected center. Folk in Gogo, refrain in Neapolitan, and that's enough to involve the public.

Sarah Toscano – Amarcord
It was not the time, in this Sanremo already so full. But Sarah is good, to tell the true very good, and the piece (full of arches) lends itself to being played by the orchestra.

Joan Thiele – Eco
Vintage and retó atmospheres that for a debut in Sanremo means being courageous. In the stanzas the bass and the battery cover the words (in the sense that they do not understand), the refrain then takes everything.

Francesca Michielin – Mud in Paradise
The construction of the piece is manual. Clean voice and melodies, few tinsel, sincere text. Third Sanremo and two second places: the spell will break.

The Kolors – You who make love with
Radio can't wait to play it. The stanzas bring us straight to the refrain which is typical of Stash and his.