Junior Cally unwelcome in Sanremo: intolerable verbal violence
"Why Sanremo is Sanremo". And it's not Sanremo without a controversy a day, you know. After Amadeus' pitiful press conference, during which, in motivating the choice of the 10 women who will join him on stage, the artistic director alluded mainly to their beauty and not to their merits, it is now the turn of rapper Junior Cally.
Phrases of an unforgivable sexism
Born in 1991, from Rome, he was chosen to participate in the 70th edition of the most important music festival in the country. "No thanks" is the title of the song that he will bring to the Ariston stage, but this is not what makes people discuss. At the center of the cyclone, in fact, some sentences taken from "Strega", a song from 2017 in which Junior Cally indulged in a considerable dose of verbal violence:
"Her name is Gioia because she does the tr..a. This one doesn't know what she says, damn tr..a how much c ... or chatter. I killed her, I tore her bag. C "I have dressed the mask".
A text not exactly in line with the spirit of the Festival, this year focused on the enhancement of the figure of women in an era marked by a high rate of gender discrimination.
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The president of Rai and Laura Boldrini say no
The presence of the masked singer is obviously not welcome on the upper floors of Viale Mazzini, where the president of Rai himself, Marcello Foa, has called for his exclusion, who said he was strongly irritated by the presence of such a controversial character, far away from the values of the Sanremo Festival, especially from the point of view of public service to which the program must enslave.
The former President of the Chamber of Deputies, Laura Boldrini, who, together with 29 other deputies, wrote a letter in which the Sanremo conductor is invited to make her voice heard, always committed to the side of women. publicly apologize for his macho considerations and clamoring for the rapper's ouster from the sonic competition, in stark contrast to the battles for rights waged every day by millions of women around the world.
The masked rapper talks about political censorship
Junior Cally replies by appealing to the right of artistic freedom, otherwise "let the Sanremo Festival be a hypocritical showcase of do-gooders". The "artist", as he defines himself, argues that these accusations of sexism are only a mask with which to hide the political censorship addressed to "No thanks", a piece with anti-populist contents that will certainly not please the Italian right .
The singer, however, says he has grown up and attributes the violence of his lyrics to the rap genre and to a youthful mistake, when, far from the limelight, he was unaware of the weight that his words could one day have.
So, although rap is a notoriously sexist musical genre, it is also true that, in 2020, in a country where 88 women are victims of violence every day and 40 cases of femicide (as reported by "This is not love", a report of the State Police dating back to 2019), contents of this kind are no longer justifiable nor acceptable as part of a subculture that must review its identity and learn to keep up with the times.
We hope that the singer has really grown up and that with women he becomes a little less Junior and a little more Senior. Otherwise, "No thanks" we say it to him.
