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