Italy 2017: will Francesco be forced to change lyrics?

ITALY 2017 – It is already one of the fans favourite for the Eurovision Song Contest with extremely high positive comments all over the web and more than 10 million views already on YouTube. The Italian entry seems to rock this year (once again) but there seems there is a small problem.

Francesco Gabbani will be obliged to change one line of the lyrics of his song “Occidentali’s Karma” since it violates EBU rules. More specific the first line of the second verse is mentioning the famous Italian brand “Chanel” since it says “Piovono gocce di Chanel”, which means “It rains drops of Chanel” something which is clearly not allowed. We have contacted EBU asking for a comment but we already know that from the moment the song is going to submitted as the Italian entry EBU will ask for that change.

In the meantime Italy features 7th in the booking odds today dropping 3 places from the day Francesco won Sanremo Festival 2017 and accepted the Eurovision challenge, although the only betting office having odds for all 43 participating countries ranks Italy 1st. Sweden is still in the lead of the bookies for winning the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest edition but as we all guess, it’s still too early to call.

ITALY 2017 LYRICS

Essere o dover essere
Il dubbio amletico
Contemporaneo come l’uomo del neolitico
Nella tua gabbia 2×3 mettiti comodo
Intellettuali nei caffè
Internettologi
Soci onorari al gruppo dei selfisti anonimi
L’intelligenza è démodé
Risposte facili
Dilemmi inutili
AAA cercasi (cerca sì)
Storie dal gran finale
Sperasi (spera sì)
Comunque vada panta rei
And singing in the rain.

Lezioni di Nirvana
C’è il Buddha in fila indiana
Per tutti un’ora d’aria, di gloria.

La folla grida un mantra
L’evoluzione inciampa
La scimmia nuda balla
Occidentali’s Karma.
Occidentali’s Karma
La scimmia nuda balla
Occidentali’s Karma.

Piovono gocce di Chanel
Su corpi asettici
Mettiti in salvo dall’odore dei tuoi simili.
Tutti tuttologi col web
Coca dei popoli
Oppio dei poveri.

AAA cercasi (cerca sì)
Umanità virtuale
Sex appeal (sex appeal)
Comunque vada panta rei
And singing in the rain.

Lezioni di Nirvana
C’è il Buddha in fila indiana
Per tutti un’ora d’aria, di gloria.
La folla grida un mantra
L’evoluzione inciampa
La scimmia nuda balla
Occidentali’s Karma.
Occidentali’s Karma
La scimmia nuda balla
Occidentali’s Karma.

Quando la vita si distrae cadono gli uomini.
Occidentali’s Karma
Occidentali’s Karma
La scimmia si rialza.

Namasté Alé

Lezioni di Nirvana
C’è il Buddha in fila indiana
Per tutti un’ora d’aria, di gloria.
La folla grida un mantra
L’evoluzione inciampa
La scimmia nuda balla
Occidentali’s Karma.
Occidentali’s Karma
La scimmia nuda balla
Occidentali’s Karma