World Song Contest

THE WINNER

Country: San Marino
Artist(s): La Scelta
Song: Il Nostro Tiempo

La Scelta is an Italian band formed by Mattia Del Forno, Emiliano Mangia, Francesco Caprara, Fabrizio Ferraguzzo and Roberto Cardelli. 5 guys from Rome met way back in 2003 to play some good covers of popular hit songs from their favourite international rock bands. Since then, the band evolved and they started producing their own material. Time made them more mature and this is also reflected in the lyrics which they write for their own music. "Il Nostro Tempo" (Our Time) is like a picture taken in the streets of today...a mixture of rhythms and melodies reflecting the multi-ethnic cultures living side by side in our daily lives. 

Official website: http://www.lascelta.net/
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/lascelta

Lyrics

I giorni fra di noi trascorrono veloci
E come andrà a finire ancora tu non sai
Il mondo sta cambiando e noi stiamo cambiando
Respirando, sempre respirando
Le strade son diverse,
Frenetiche,
Ma intense di volti e lineamenti differenti
Vedo immagini nuove,
Culture e colori,
Radici lontane che adesso mi appartengono
Il mondo che vorrei
Non trova differenze
Fra l’uomo e le sue varie appartenenze
E quello che vivremo sarà…
La foto di una nuova realtà
Immagine del nostro tempo
Un’onda che mi cambierà… dentro

E mi sento un africano metropolitano
Con gli occhi da orientale
E il cuore di chi sa che andrà lontano
La mia casa è un altopiano al centro di Milano
E mi sento umano
Io mi sento umano…
E mi sento un africano metropolitano
Con gli occhi da orientale
E il cuore di chi sa che andrà lontano
E se ti sembra strano…io mi sento umano…

I giorni fra di noi, trascorrono veloci
E come andrà a finire ora tu lo sai
E quello che viviamo è già la foto di una nuova realtà
Immagine del nostro tempo
Lo specchio di un fiume che si muove lento…

E mi sento un africano metropolitano
Con gli occhi da orientale
E il cuore di chi sa che andrà lontano
La mia casa è un altopiano al centro di Milano
E mi sento umano, io mi sento umano…
E mi sento vivo sono figlio del destino
Ho scelto il mondo per confine e non sarò mai clandestino
Se ti sembra strano…vieni più vicino…
Io mi sento umano…io mi sento umano
E guarderemo da lontano quello che eravamo
Con la semplicità andremo via tenendoci per mano…

YOUR COMMENTS

57 songs took part in the 39th edition of the World Song Contest, which started in May 2008. And of course, semi finals were first organized to keep only 35 entries in the final. Some people gave each other mutual support in the semi finals, but if it helped to qualified, it didn't helped in the final. And worst: it probably prevented some great songs to qualify, and maybe these songs would have reach a higher position in the final.

Once again ESC-related artists received a lof of support like Dmitry Koldun for Belarus, Anjeza Shahini for Albania or Carolin Fortenbacher for Germany. but of course they couldn't compete with the song their famous for among the Eurovision fan community. If ESC songs, as well as those which took part in a national final, can't take part in the World Song Contest, there was no rules lile that for the San Remo festival. As a results, you often have entries for Italy, San Marino or Vatican City which were songs performed during that festival. In this edition San Marino and Vatican City were both represented by one of those songs. If both did reach its best results.

Indeed there was no doubt since the voting started that the tiny country could win this edition. And it did ! With 208 votes, and a lot of support from Brazilian players of WSC, San Marino took a comfortable win against Argentina (2nd) and China (3rd). Originality was probably beaten with Estonia finishing 5th, but that was a long time since Estonia didn't reach a final, in fact Estonia failed to qualify in 11 occasions in a row, from WSC .28 to WSC .38. The winning song, Il Nostro Tiempo performed by La Scelta, is in some ways closed to the previous Italian winner in WSC .18, "Stop! Dimentica" by Tizianno Ferro. Is it the key of success for songs performed in Italian ?

Gallery of Participants

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Alan

Shai Gabso

Kerli

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