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What can I say? The review has definitely piqued my curiosity... The character, whom I have never given exceptional credit to, is not odious to me, and I have no prejudices against him... Let's give it a try, come on... You yourself admit that few have noticed it... so? Does my well-known discourse on mass quality hold or not? Kisses

@nes: I've always hated quizzes and I'm definitely too old for interrogations... so please tell me the reference title of Kill Bill. I’ll download it, watch it, and if you want, we can talk about it afterwards. Kisses (but let's not play childish tricks, come on...)

Yes, well... actually the verb "to copy" for Kill Bill seems absolutely inappropriate to me... KB is full of quotes, cultured and less so; it's a film of absolute philology, but I really don’t see any copying... maybe we need to clarify the concept, perhaps we’re not on the same page regarding the terms... kisses

kill bill...maybe the discussion would be lengthy...it's a film that is strikingly generational (like the others but perhaps even more so) for which people go crazy if they belong to a not overly broad age range...this is its immense strength and its inevitable limit...

thank you all so far: @darkeve...well...the best created by Tarantino...personally, I consider all the ones from Kill Bill, especially Bill, to be superior...anyway, I reiterate: absolutely beautiful film, but it's like a trick that is starting to show its age. Kisses

@geb: sorry if I read something carelessly. But let me underscore (also for work reasons...oh...) with an example: "la donna cannone." I believe there can't be any questions about the literary and harmonic grandeur of the piece. Instant success, absolute singability, lasting affection and memory after more than twenty years. That’s what I mean. But we can discuss it… obviously. Kisses

@pannzzoone: we basically agree. The problem, perhaps the fundamental question, is this: when so-called light music was more "young," it was the art that mostly drove the market; today, it is solely and exclusively the market, through advertising, that creates consumption, completely disregarding the quality of the product. As for the case of Bersani, I assure you that I immerse myself in far more challenging listens (there are many of my jazz reviews that almost no one comments on...) and here, in this album, I don’t find a lack of quality, but a lack of soul. That's all. And I emphasize that 30 and 40 years ago, or even less, quality reached the people. Today it doesn’t. Either the people don’t get it, or they don't let the people get it; that’s the underlying issue. Kisses.

But yes... Battisti, Vasco, and Gaetano Mercolati do well with a good ability to craft lyrics... in my opinion, not much personality and an average voice, but that’s absolutely a highly subjective opinion. More than anything, maybe I missed something: Is Moro mainstream? That he’s good is indisputable, but is he mainstream? (This is not a provocative question; at my age, one loses touch, especially since I haven’t watched TV as a principle for 9 years, nor listened to the radio...): Let me know... Kisses

@geb: unfortunately, you also see snobbery where there is none. Let me give you a few examples. For me, an album that will go down in history as an absolute masterpiece, extreme development, and beautiful "destruction" of the song form is, and will be, "ovunque proteggi," certainly not something for the shower. The point is to look at the longevity at the top of the charts for albums like La Voce del Padrone, Creuza de Mà, Don Giovanni... in short, albums that today no one would produce, and if they did, they wouldn't make it into the top twenty. And no one criticized singer-songwriters...? Maybe you're young: go search for and read the reviews of Scacchi e Tarocchi by Il Principe, just to name one. The era of paid journalism, alas, begins in the late eighties when every release was - just like today - a promotion a priori... on this, read l'Internazionale, and look elsewhere at how freely fierce they judge new releases. Here, don't you wonder why everyone speaks well of Mika, and as soon as you turn on the radio, almost everywhere, there's his new single...? Come on... to say that times don't change is to resign oneself to the most obvious of platitudes. Kisses. PS: and anyway, read me carefully again, I say that, for me - obviously - this album is too constructed and soulless, not that it's bad or that Bersani isn't (as he is) brilliant.

Springsteen is one of the best-selling artists in America (maybe the best-selling)...: I hope you're referring to sales and not to being sold, like a typical referee... otherwise, this is madness directed at the wrong person (go to Welcome to the new Myspace! I'm the one singing... but I don't want to spark any controversy that would make me seem too partisan). I'll just tell you that I would be willing to engage in a battle over artistic and human honesty, even for years, if you want... I just want to say, though it seems I'm not being understood, that I care about the collapsing cultural level of Italians; I don't want to change the world with a song (even if the idiots who govern us, with the laws they make, certainly can't do it)... anyhow, kisses.