Adriano Celentano
Svalutation

THE REVIEW

Eh la benzina ogni giorno costa sempre di più

and the lira keeps falling down
devaluation, devaluation.
Changing governments changes nothing up there
there's a hole in the State where the money goes down
devaluation, devaluation.

My love, I don't understand why
I look for a place by the sea for the holidays and there's none
devaluation, devaluation.

With a month's salary, you can only buy a coffee
stadiums are crowded but where are the people
devaluation, devaluation.

Well,
we're in crisis but,
without going far
America is here.

In the car, we've been driving on the right for thirty years
now many are driving against the traffic we know
what a collision, what a collision.

With the new bank of kidnappings that exists
tell me what the value of life is
devaluation, devaluation.

My love, I don't understand why
you want to act like a rooster then lay an egg for me
on the bed, on the bed.

No one teaches us not to kill
we live more by weapons than by bread because
assassination, assassination.

But this Italy here if it wants to knows
it will make it
and the system exists
when you think of yourself
think... also a little for me 

It seems like a joke, but this song is from 1976. 30 years later we're in the same situation criticized by one of the few Italian singer-songwriters who tell the reality of our country seen through the eyes of a farmer/worker. Work, women, family, the countryside, and the problem of pollution, Adriano has been proposing these topics for years, topics that are somewhat personal and hardly appreciated nowadays. Just think of a song like "I want to know" the first track of this album titled precisely "SVALUTATION", it's true that man is destroying nature, but didn’t anyone tell him that somehow we need to evolve? And that we're not all farmers? Apart from the fact that the song is already heard, you immediately understand the thread with "Il ragazzo della via Gluck", the ideas are too outdated, they don't hold in the subjects of the next track (text mentioned before) "Svalutation", a less ideological and immortal song given the situation. The following tracks are useless, already out of fashion at the time, subjects too closed and bigoted. Adriano might be a good man, but as an artist, he doesn't have much imagination. He has produced a bunch of useless, monotonous, and boring albums. Like this album made of 8 somewhat banal and somewhat already heard little songs. The ideas are absent, and the only thing that stands out besides the title track is the catchy melody (for example "uomo macchina" is very catchy), but nothing innovative. . . .