X Factor starts again: “Music and lightness, back to life”

They are close-knit and ironic but also confident and determined. Fedez, Dargen D’Amico, Ambra Angiolini and Rkomi are the four judges of the new edition of X Factor, the talent branded Sky Original and produced by Fremantle, which returns to air with the 2022 season from next Thursday on Sky and streaming on Now . An edition dedicated to “normality and” lightness “, which sees Francesca Michielin return to tread the same stage where it all started 10 years ago” I feel like I am living what I experienced at the time – the singer says excitedly, chosen as host of the program -. It is true that 10 years have passed but the X Factor stage always gives me the thrill, it is wonderful to see so much talent this year, I struggle to be super partes because I get very excited. I’m having fun. “This year’s edition brings back to the center of the scene, and in front of an audience and a close-knit jury, young artists from all over Italy. The competition between them will be heated right from the auditions. behind the table is the public, who returns to the presence, after the stop dictated by the pandemic and the lockdown: 12 thousand spectators in total inside the Allianz Cloud in Milan who will be in effect the ‘fifth judge’ of the competition, accompanying the judges from the first plays to the choice of the three members of each team. “X Factor – underlines Antonella D’Errico, Executive Vice President Programming Sky Italia – also represents the zeitgeist and with Covid the last two editions have tried, with great courage, to represent and be in tune with that type of mood. Now we bring life back in with force, we have reopened the program to the public and this edition is projected on entertainment, fun and desire for lightness. The return of Fedez best represents the refounding from the roots. Thanks also to Rkomi, Ambra and Dargen “. In this new season the last call phase will also be new. After the traditional auditions (aired on 15, 22 and 29 September), in which the artists will perform and present their musical project with the hope of receiving at least 3 yeses to be able to continue, the Bootcamps will arrive (6 and 13 October), with the classic mechanism of switches on the coveted chairs (which this year will be 6). Then, on 20 October, the unprecedented phase of last call in which this year’s mechanism foresees that the 6 chairs will return to the stage and the judges, listening to all the contenders on their roster, can choose the trio they want to bring to the Live Shows. The latter will start from 27 October, from the Repower Theater in Assago, just outside Milan. “I’ve been waiting for this moment for a while – remarks Fedez – I’ve always experienced my departure from the program in a somewhat traumatic way and when Eliana (Eliana Guerra, showrunner XF 2022, ed) is back in the team we always felt. In all the seasons in which I was a judge we exchanged opinions and then when the terrain was favorable for the return I did not exist. There is no doubt that a great challenge awaits us, I know what we have done so far, how many talents have reached our table. I strongly believe in the project, I enjoy the moment without preparing too much. X Factor baptized me from the television point of view, it was an important crossroads for me, I think we made a nice little program “. The difference that the rapper carries with him compared to the past” is that now I don’t prepare myself – he glosses – first I was a Stakanov, now spontaneity. “And he is keen to silence the rumors about the quarrels with Ambra that he would have had during the recording of the program:” They are not truthful “he underlines, while on the support that his wife Chiara Ferragni could give him through social ironics : “People decide spontaneously without being influenced too much. In the past my wife made several appeals that promptly brought bad luck and therefore I will ask her not to do them. “Biting in his irony also Dargen D’Amico:” When I signed the contract I was convinced there were the judges of the last edition and I stayed screwed – he jokes -. There have been big doubts from the network about me and I hope to make him change his mind. I would never have bet on myself and it’s nice that someone did. The fundamental point for me is music, with the people who are here I have a friendship, what better occasion to give the worst of me? “Ambra is also ready to face the new challenge with her head held high:” It’s the first time in which I am incorporated into a project that has ‘normality’ as its key word – she says -. They always call me for impossible feats and this one, in the end, perhaps it is. It would have been easier to be the President of the Republic than the judge, the requisites are less … but we have made it. The whole team is strong “. In her career, Ambra observes,” there have been cracks, moments in which I broke. I have never forgotten the TV but I could not find the reason to return. I got passionate about other things, this seemed to me quite risky and therefore right for me “. He does not hide all his sensitivity Rkomi:” Despite the emotion I still feel and that I will have during the program – she admits – I want to go back to being more myself same possible, I want to get naked and in the boys I look for determination and naturalness. “Many artists will compete against each other with unreleased songs but there will be great classics of Italian music proposed as covers. The bands will bring with them all the colors of the rock and indie-pop, the r’n’b share will be represented above all by women and there will also be a pinch of lyric. X Factor, after all, is also this: a “great popular novel”, to use the words by Michielin, with many “rough diamonds” that will do their best to be able to shine in the music scene.