On Easter Monday, in St Peter’s Square crowded with 50,000 adolescents awaiting the Pope, the Italian Episcopal Conference set up a performance by the nineteen-year-old rapper called Blanco (Riccardo Fabbriconi). The prevailing themes in rap music are generally political and social, expressed in an aggressive language and loaded with sexual references. Blanco won the 2022 Sanremo Festival with “Brividi”, a song that places homosexuality and heterosexuality on the same level. Cristina Siccardi commented on the episode on Corrispondenza Romana in the following words: “The attempt to win the regard…