- 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.

- (laughter)

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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.

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!

- 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.