Eurovision 2007 - BONAPARTI.LV - Questa Notte

[messinesefelicemente]

per essere della Lettonia l'italiano lo hanno saputo masticare piuttosto egreggiamente ;)

[reptils86]

The best!!!!!

[Dolan1961]

супер

[boguswoman81]

Not bad, but a bit silly - singing in italian and so on.

[Lictorium]

Is singing in Italian "silly" ?

Are you saying that?

[boguswoman81]

You misunderstood me. I don't think that singing in Italian is silly in itself. Italian language is a very beautiful and important language. But it seems silly for Latvian singers from Latvia to sing in Italian. One of them is actually an Italian, but the rest are Latvians.

[edx4ever]

@boguswoman81

Why do some of people think, that singing is "silly"?

[boguswoman81]

@edx4ever It seems that you haven't read my comments carefully. Music is very important to me, and I would never say (or think) that singing is silly. What I wrote was that, in my opinion, it is silly for Latvian singers to sing in a language that is so far from their own language and culture at such an event as Eurovision, where they are supposed to represent their country. English is the international language, so that's more or less okay, but I am not so sure about other languages.

[boguswoman81]

To me it would seem just as silly if they had sung in Finnish, Japanese, Turkish or whatever. It's normal to sing in English, as it is the main international language, or even in Russian (for Latvians) as we are wery tightly linked to it. But any other language seems a bit strange to me. There can always be exceptions, of course. But this is not the case, in my opinion.

[Lictorium]

I'd rather think that spreading other languages is good;most people have had enough of the anglophonic imperialism;the same imperialism that obliges me to write in this language.

When looking a music show,i hear

saying "international chart",i'd like

to really hear international music,not always the same angloamerican shit.

For that reason it's good when someone chooses a foreign language,different from english.

[boguswoman81]

On the one hand, you are right. It is more interesting if people sing in different languages at Eurovision. But on the other hand, it would be nicer if those languages would be their own.

[boguswoman81]

But, what I meant by saying that there can always be exceptions, is that it's okay for a singer to sing in a foreign language if he feels that this language and the mentality represented by it is close to him and his temper. But in this case it doesn't seem to be true - most Latvians are very far from Italians in their mentality and temper. That's why it seems a bit inadequate and artificial to me. I may be wrong, though.

[DanyXStardust]

@boguswoman81 The song is in Italian because it was written by a person [the man with the red rose] who comes from Italy and lived & worked some time in Latvia ;]

[ridicolas]

@Lictorium YES IN ITALIAN opera

[mirtom82]

well i have to say its a very nice song and even better perfomance.but opera and eurovision just dont go together.becides the last singer that appeared was leader of Pirates of Sea on this years Eurovision.and i know he is Italian but living in Latvia

[ilzuks123]

Actually they don't sing in opera.

[littlefrancy]

cute!

[adapy]

bautiful :))

[Johndenseje]

bad

[DolgorukovPivix]

very nice song and perfomance