Our series of public reactions continues with another of our six automatic finalists – Italy! After he took the victory of “Sanremo 2019”, Mahmood became the Italian entrant for Eurovision 2019 in Tel Aviv with his song “Soldi”.

14 people from different countries, of different ages and professions took part in this year’s “Public Reaction” project. They are all casual viewers of the Eurovision Song Contest – none of them are huge fans of the Contest, and none of them have heard any of the songs before we played them all to them (except maybe the one representing their own country).

In the video, you can hear thoughts and impressions of our panel members from the very first time they listened to “Soldi” by Mahmood, and we also asked them to rate the song.

Check out what they had to say about the Italian entry below:

You can listen to the song here: