Articolo 31
Italiano medio

THE REVIEW

I will probably receive yet another attack for the group I am reviewing now, but I will never stop saying that the mistakes I made in the past were too many, really too many. And this album is proof of it.

First of all, I begin by saying that sometimes letting success get to your head is harmful, really harmful, actually extremely harmful. It's something that unfortunately happens to quite a few people when they are at the peak of certain success, musically speaking. Well, unfortunately, it also happened to Alessandro Aleotti, known to us as J Ax.
Someone who used to say things like "Neither money nor success will ever change..." (from "Così Mi Tieni") ends up, along with the poor DJ Luca Perrini (DJ Jad), making an album that doesn't even seem like Articolo 31's, in my opinion.

Analyzing his change from "Domani Smetto" onwards, I come to the conclusion that J Ax doesn't have a nice voice when he sings and doesn't rap, and the incredible thing is that he even admits it...so why does he "sing" at all?
Then...from what I read in an interview in Topolino...they have become "Spaghetti Punk-Rock". Where's this Punk-Rock? Where are the songs with music like Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, SEX PISTOLS??? Huh? What won't they do to get noticed...This CD is pop with a few rock influences, in my opinion.

But let's move on to the sore point of the album: the songs. The introduction "Prima Qualità" (totally based on the good Jad's scratching) thankfully is listenable, but the same cannot be said for the "sung" songs, which I will now describe...
Attempts to mimic Vasco Rossi of the golden times ("La Finestra", a song that I thankfully forgot immediately), an insult to "Gianna" by Rino Gaetano ("La Mia Ragazza Mena"), nonsense that gets on your nerves for their lack of quality ("Bestie Mutanti", "Sputate Al Re", "La Canzone Del Dito", "L'Italiano Medio", "I Consigli Di Un Pirla"), pieces that fail in trying to address more serious topics ("Cara Mia Ex"), extremely annoying choruses ("La Nuova Stella Del Pop", "Senza Dubbio") and "mini chunks" that lose their appeal after two or three listens ("Caravita", "1972", "Manate" and "Commodore 64 Vs PC"). If I think that the only acceptable piece on the record is "A Pugni Col Mondo" it just makes me want to cry seeing one of the groups I appreciated the most for their past reduced (but they already were with the previous CD) to being a "little group" of commercial phenomenon without any respect for those who followed them since "Strade Di Città" (well, maybe someone will say "but it was already a little group," well, I would answer that at least they did serious things in the past!).

Here it is not a matter of prejudice, but of understanding that musical changes can happen positively (like Marlene Kuntz, or KoRn, who I realized still have creativity, thank goodness) and negatively (Metallica, Megadeth, Offspring, Zucchero, just to name a few examples). For J Ax and DJ Jad, it's the latter.

Some reviews at the time reported that this CD also cites Bob Dylan in the sounds...excuse me, but something like that simply leaves me speechless just reading it...

Italy is reduced this way today also because of records like this. What a shame. A CD to forget, there is no reason to buy it...you would risk damaging your ears as it happened to me.

The videos of the singles, however, are very entertaining, and I do not regret watching them again...obviously with the volume at zero!