- Previously on the Novympia channel:
The more I listen to that,
the more I cannot stand it.
I really-- hone--
it does something to me.
And coming up:
She fell over, remember?
- Oh, right.
- That was me...
nomination by the way.
- I find you very rude.
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Good evening and we are back.
- Hi.
- We're still here.
Tonight we are heading off to the land of
pizza and sambuca.
Do you remember that?
- No.
- Yeah, when Italy won the last time,
the dude was like, "We're off to the land
of pizza and sambuca", and people were
just like, "Oh."
- You know, I can't stand sambuca.
- "Oh, it's not good."
- [It] makes me feel violently ill.
- Do you remember when we got given that
free bottle when we were like,
"Oh my God."
- No, I don't remember.
- "I still have it."
- (laughter)
- Yes! I still have it.
- Ohh.
- Welcome to this Novympia treat.
If you are unaware of who we are,
we are Nova and Olympia.
- Yes, my name is Nova.
- And I'm Olympia.
- And normally we are in drag,
but because we're trying to churn out
reaction videos to every single
Eurovision artist this year,
you're just getting
what you get sometimes.
- Yes, we are churning it out
in favor of quantity over quality.
- Yes. (laughter)
- Just a quick reminder,
we will be watching this song
and reacting to it by talking about it
whilst it's playing.
- Because this is a reaction video.
If you would like to listen to this song
without commentary, the link is always
in the description box for you to do so.
We also talk over these songs
to try and dissuade copyright strikes
happening on our channel.
The audio will be distorted.
- (laughter)
- I know this is like a lot
of things to say, but we keep
getting comments on people
who don't seem to understand
what a reaction video is. - Who said, "This is a reaction video!
Why are you reacting?"
- What did you expect?
- (laughter)
- Okay, so today we are going to be reacting
to Angelina Mango song 'La noia',
representing Italy, mind you.
- Now we dipped in and out of Sanremo.
We watched bits and pieces of it.
We had-- I think it was a very
strong year this year.
- Well, as any sane person would do.
You wouldn't watch the whole thing.
It's like 5 hours ago.
It's so long.
It was-- there were a lot of
options, they had...
- Yeah, there were probably about four
or five acts that I really,
really liked out of this.
- Oh my God, yeah, at Moldova.
-We were probably rooting mainly
for Annalisa with 'Sinceramente',
which is a fantastic song - [I] loved that one.
and I believe it came second ultimately.
- Third.
- Was it third?
- I think it was the third.
Yeah, I wanted that one to win,
but I was very, very happy with this
because I also think
this song is so great.
- Yep, I'm very happy with this.
- We love it, we keep playing it,
and we're going to react to her
doing the final performance
she gave on the final night.
- So the artists in Sanremo perform
their songs three times
prior to the [final] voting,
and it seems very much like,
from our point of view,
and if you know more about
the traditions of Sanremo,
please educate us in the comments.
But from watching it, it seems like
the first two nights are
very much more formal.
It seems like [the] staging is very,
very limited to just the artist
singing the song,
and the costumes and presentation
seems to be much more like
you're going to the theatre
to watch a show.
- Yes, I don't know if we've referred to
Sanremo as a national final thus far.
However, I think Italians and people
who are very much into Sanremo
would begrudge us saying that
because it's not a
national final technically,
it has existed before Eurovision existed.
Eurovision was inspired by Sanremo,
it's a very, very prestigious
historic song competion in Italy.
- And a lot of the artists
compete in Sanremo
with no intention to
compete in Eurovision.