After the sniff controversy, here comes the riff controversy.

While the members of the Måneskin group thought they could enjoy their victory at Eurovision serenely, it will probably not be for now.

On the evening of the final of the show, singer Damiano David was suspected of having taken cocaine but had raised doubts two days later thanks to a negative drug test.

This time, it is his music that we are directly attacking.

In the

RTL Boulevard program

broadcast in the Netherlands on the RTL 4 channel, a former member of the group The Vendettas established a link between

Zitti E Buoni

, the victorious title of Eurovision 2021, and the song

You want it, you 've got it

recorded in the early 1990s. "It really sounds like our song," Joris Linssen explained.

The question now is whether this is coincidence or plagiarism.

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An ordinary riff?

“These guys weren't born back in the days of our rock band, of course. But to put it in Måneskin's own words: “Rock and roll never dies”, ”added the singer. Did the Italians really take inspiration from the Dutch group? While there are some slight similarities to the riff played during the first few seconds of the song, it is more difficult to find a connection between the two songs afterwards.

In the comments posted under the

You Want It

video

, You've Got It

on YouTube, the majority of Internet users do not want to believe it.

"It's an ordinary blues rock guitar riff used in thousands of different songs," notes one.

Should this then be seen as a search for free advertising on the part of The Vendettas?

Some people wonder.

Måneskin members, meanwhile, did not react.

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