“Boredom” may not be the most typical sentiment of a winning Sanremo tune or a tormentone estivo (a summer earworm — which most winning Sanremo tunes go on to be). But in 2024, the feeling was resonant enough for 22-year-old Angelina Mango’s “La noia” (Boredom) to take home top honors at the 74th edition of Italy’s longest-running music competition.

At Saturday night’s finale (which, in typical Sanremo fashion, stretched into the early hours of Sunday), over 8.5 million viewers — an estimated two-thirds of all TV viewers across Italy — watched as Mango was crowned the winner. While the title of Mango’s winning tune seems to promise a song weighed down by post-Covid angst, Mango doesn’t quite see it that way. Her lyrics allude to boredom as a springboard for creativity.