Tonight begins the most awaited television event by Italians, the 70th edition of the Sanremo Festival, and we have analyzed the texts of the 24 songs that will compete on the stage of the Ariston theater. As expected, there are words and themes that return but there is also an illustrious absentee, or at least a special guest who will remain this year more behind the scenes than you can imagine: love. The most widespread word
Never were the words used in this year’s texts so prescient and I believe that no one, absolutely no one, could have foreseen the most widespread: NOT. Yet speaking of negation does not do a bad thing, on the contrary to tell about today leaving out the part of emptiness that every negation brings with it would be a low blow, a petty and sneaky way to avoid hitting our contemporary. “Non” is a word that prevents, that divides, that highlights the impossibility of something, of a gesture as of a feeling.
“Brush your teeth and do not feel envious, do not complain that there is always worse” as Bugo and Morgan say in the piece ” Sincero “; “You don’t say it and I don’t see it, love is blind or we are on the side
” asks Francesco Gabbani in the song ” Viceversa “; “My loves thrown in bulk, I never remember where I put them” he saysIrene Grandi in the song ” Finally I “, written for her by the legendary Vasco Rossi .
“Non” for more than two hundred times, “Non” to talk about Italy and the return of Amadeus to the 80s, the years of drinking and good living, the years of Sabrina Salerno and the Ricchi e Poveri, of the enjoyment of everything spies and the somewhat fake family at Mulino Bianco, the family of good feelings and inguacchi hidden under the carpet. The other words
Following “Non” at a long distance there is “Where” and then down “My”, just to highlight the selfishness of the times and love as a category of belonging or act of possession … and then let’s not complain about men who believe they have power over women, because without that “mine” love would be respect and freedom. And to follow “world”, “wanting”, “everything”, “love”, “time”, “music” and the most current “taxes”, “racist”, “center left” and “tired” . Themes and trends
Among the recurring themes told by this year’s texts, there is a return to “family” and loved ones, as in the case of the text “Come mia madre” that the revelation of Amici Giordana Angi dedicates to her mother , or “Giant” that Piero Peludedicates to his three-year-old grandson, certainly in a fresher and more original way.
And then the tendency to pleasure and enjoyment, a healthy and pure hedonism, which will bring us straight back to relive the Milan to drink, the carnality of Drive In and the half-dressed women on TV, always a step back and never next to anyone. , not even the last of men, and staying up late until morning, just for the sake of not going home, to make our bodies dance and clean our minds from the disgrace of thought. And finally love
Incomplete loves, failed loves for self-sabotage, difficult loves, fragile loves and loves for little things, loves betrayed, loves never expressed and never forgotten, unforeseeable and unpredictable loves and then loves that inspire a rebirth or encourage a change. There we will be without love and without the classic serenades. How to say to love everything in order not to love anything and so be it.
