Luca-LJ

Number one thousand, yes!

Certo! Inviami il testo e procederò con la traduzione.

Which art?

Well, you see, in the end, you think exactly like me! I have nothing against hip hop in general! I believe, however, that Toni and furmini don't think this way, but I can understand it.

And then people who wallow in self-pity annoy me! I mean, this guy wants to act tough but in the end, he's just a spineless whiner complaining like a little kid, and come on! Don't play the victim! And what the hell do American police officers have to do with the video of an Italian singer? He has all the traits of a pathetic loser, lucky he found people who like his rapping with an apple in his mouth (come on! What kind of voice does he have! Is it just me who finds it ridiculous and caricatural?). I’ll wrap it up by saying that the first time I heard him, I wasn't paying attention to the lyrics because I was distracted and I thought he was a guy making fun of American rappers, can you believe how good he is? It's an unintentional parody!

Well, I'm not really well-versed in true rap, but if I may cite musicians who have blended rap with other musical expressions, I can tell you that Frank HI-NRG or Caparezza would completely outshine this guy! Then, regardless of the genre, there are ways and ways of saying things! One thing is to say "Poor these immigrants, after all they're people like us, etc." and another is to say "Pane e coraggio ci vogliono ancora che questo mondo non è cambiato pane e coraggio ci vogliono ancora sembra che il tempo non sia passato pane e coraggio commissario che c'hai il cappello per comandare pane e fortuna moglie mia che reggi l'ombrello per riparare. Per riparare questi figli dalle ondate del buio mare e le figlie dagli sguardi che dovranno sopportare e le figlie dagli oltraggi che dovranno sopportare" (Ivano Fossati).
This is to say that I don’t like someone who, while saying serious and profound things, speaks like a kindergarten child or like an illiterate nun. Mondo is one of those who speaks in a cliché, predictable, banal, and pathetic way. After all, from a purely conceptual point of view, he is not much different from Mario Merola who says "'o zappatore nun s''a scorda 'a mamma!".

Oh my! San Gennà, you know I'm very devoted to you! But couldn’t you have made this review a bit longer? Well, I'm not giving you a rating just because it's San Gennaro, eh! Curse it all!
Anyway, aside from everything, I don't have this album and I don't remember ever hearing it, so I'm making my usual anticlerical plea and I'm out of here: "Damn priests! Stop censoring De Gregori's songs!"
Bye!

As for Gigi D'Alessio (after all, this is a review of him and not of Naples), it’s obvious that he sucks! But I wonder: "Punisher, while you were setting off the device to destroy the city, did you think about the fact that you were killing James Senese? And Tony Esposito?" Thank goodness Pino Daniele moved to Palermo (although maybe he deserves a visit from you since his last albums are horrifying!). I've written a bunch of disconnected sentences but I don’t care! You can put them together! Now excuse me, I have to go eat a slice of pastiera because Roman Easter desserts disgust me.

Sorry, but I am absolutely certain that D'Alessio's success is not just due to Neapolitans but to the rest of Italy (I remind you that he broke through in Sicily before his own city). And I’m not saying this to defend them (in Naples, you can listen to people of the same caliber, if not worse, look at Gigi Finizio!), but just for the sake of the record! Believe me, Punisher, I’m Roman but I know many Neapolitans (starting with my parents). As for the review, it doesn’t seem to me that it disrespects the city; it just tries to make irony through clichés, one of which is undeniably crime (of course, you could have thrown in pizza, the mandolin, or Pulcinella or many other beautiful things that other cities do not have and will never have!). The city has a crime rate that is certainly not low due to the high population density: it’s unfair to make comparisons with cities that have one-tenth of Naples's population or with cities like Rome, which also have more inhabitants but spread over a much larger area. Most people in Naples are honest; it’s just that the news doesn’t talk about honest people, obviously, and so there’s a distorted perception of reality. There’s the Camorra, okay, but there’s also the victim of the Camorra; don’t you agree?

Well Francesco, what were you expecting? A cover like that should have warned you from the very beginning! It seems to scream "Don't buy me! Don't buy me!"
I give it the highest rating because I want to encourage the review of terrible albums, as I find it very useful.
One last thing! I think that thing about the speed camera is nonsense! Be careful!