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How old are you? Sorry for the intrusion, but it's essential. If you're over 30/35, you can't not remember that the great albums by singer-songwriters, in a broad sense, that topped the charts were hummed by everyone. And I'm not saying they were all masterpieces, but there was substance, that substance which is missing in today's consumable material (there's only form)...(where yesterday we hummed cuccuruccuccù, fun but "written," in the broadest sense, today we sing carta or ferreri...or worse, the much-praised ferro or d'alessio, who, with the illusion of being something, are already advanced nothing).

@pannzzoone: a shocking registration error. In 1979, "Acqua azzura" had already been out for at least 10 years... anyway, the concept is clear, and yet (as Quelo would say) it's wrong. In the shower, back then, we also sang "cuccuruccuccù paloma" and "com'è profondo il mare" (those songs yes, 30 years ago), that's the difference. @zot: that's not the point, it’s not about the desire for "commitment" (there's always someone who equates the singer-songwriter school solely with commitment, usually those who sell Bocelli as a singer or themselves as indispensable political figures...), but simply the refusal to accept that what is mainstream in Italy must necessarily be idiotic... That's all. And my humble opinion is that Bersani had all the right cards to touch the sky with three chords, not the second floor with thirty... Kisses.

@aries: you are an exceptional bullet deflector... this is not the speech I give. Each one is free to enjoy their own niche, but my alarmism (not a solution, nor a sentence, just an alarm) is that there is no more mass quality, no more beautiful, perfect song with a "shower singalong" quality. And if the country is going to ruin and is handing itself over to certain figures, it’s because we need a mass culture. I, you, we, all of us. Kisses

Unfortunately, having listened to it for at least the fifth time, I can only confirm my feeling (the same as the review): too cold a construction, which risks leading to a chillingly pedantic attitude, a sort of helium and Le storie tese not being comedic. Amen, guys, I just don’t see the soul in it, and the desire to listen to it again is very, very far from here... @gab82: at least all those you mentioned (Vasco, Liga, Dalla, Daniele, etc...) have quite a different past... we can agree on that, right? Kisses

@clako: got it. Here I am, with my usual annoying commentary. The guy (the Moro) is good, a bit like early Vasco, having absorbed many lessons from others. Am I the only one who notices a concerning lack of personality? Probably: I really am a big pain in the ass. But the product, in any case, isn't bad. Kisses

Well... but can't you see that we are in the ecstasy of the microcosm (as an escape?)... Does anyone care that our country is culturally falling apart while we settle for the music that surrounds US...? Wouldn't we at least be complicit in the disaster? Not certainly by commission, but by omission... We must spread the word, and if there's a new and good word, great, otherwise let’s teach the kids (fiòi, cinni, call them what you want) to listen (and understand) De André, to name just one... Kisses

thank you all, guys, excellent contributions. @zztot: I guarantee you that the review wasn't rushed but carefully considered. Then, like all things, it may not please everyone (thankfully, it did appeal to many), but it definitely wasn’t thrown together. You mention one of the most beautiful verses... well, there are many others; had you read carefully, you would have understood that what’s at stake is not the "very high" quality of the product, which is indisputable, but its soul. @everyone else: think about the mass quality nonetheless (especially Alia76)... it’s not a matter of laziness, it’s about whether or not we can reach the people with a "high" product... and investigating why that is, today, no longer happens. Kisses to all (and anyway, my first vivid memory from the jukebox is, alas, Stella Stai... (less woman, a bit more gay)

The agreement with comment 26, in form and substance, is total.

@hardrock: the speech that I stubbornly make, about the masses, often not too understood (or appreciated) by DeB stems from a need that, in my opinion, we should all have: mass quality means a better country, niche quality unfortunately always coincides with collective dumbing down, the state stupidity that we unfortunately witness. The voice of the master, creuza de mà or don giovanni as mass records were not isolated episodes; they were the fruit and result of a country where many (enough to be defined even as a people) saw certain things, read certain things, and listened to certain things. That’s all there is to it. Then, each person finds their own personal paradise, or even just consolation, in their own niche, and that’s perfectly right. But a culturally poor country is truly a poor one. Kisses. Welcome to the new Myspace!

@lidjs: I never do this, but for Bersani, I would recommend a collection (a true turning point: "che vita"), really beautiful and complete. @hardrock: damn, if you had continued for another line you would have started with a compliment and ended with a fuck you....?! come on, you youngsters...let's see...the mentioned Moltheni and Afterhours are as old as me. I like them very little, but they're not the target of my barbs. At least they try to offer something original. Capossela is like Bersani...others of my more or less same generation...old...no, my "enemies" are all those fake charming singer-songwriters, useless, academically perfect but completely empty inside...what's going around between X Factor and MTV...now I have to admit I don't even try anymore...The problem of these years is that mainstream stuff is awful, and niche stuff is excessively intellectual, baroque, self-referential, lacking in self-irony and simple irony, and constructed. Mass quality (typical of the great era of singer-songwriters) no longer exists...that's all (I would like to see La Voce del Padrone back at the top of the charts, in my dream world...)