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Rating: A necessary premise before starting the review: even now that I listen almost exclusively to Metal (be it death, thrash, black, or epic), I have a soft spot for Ligabue.
He was the first rock singer-songwriter that I started to listen to and appreciate, just as he was beginning to emerge from the niche of his hometown Correggio (and according to many users of this site, he would have done better to stay there), establishing himself more and more as a reference point in the Italian pop rock market. Yet, in my opinion, he kept producing albums that were always above average, with a great peak in the celebrated "Buon Compleanno, Elvis!" and noteworthy experiments with his theater concerts, from which a truly excellent double CD was born.
Elisa, on the other hand, is an artist I don't know in detail but appreciate for a work like 'Pearl Days,' in my opinion a good display of maturity that elevates her beyond the squalid tunes of contemporary Italian pop. Therefore, you can imagine how much it breaks my heart to see Liga as a money-making machine cranking out really simple and highly commercial songs ("Le donne lo sanno", "Happy Hour" and its opening riff... Slash is still crying for revenge... But can you?), and how skeptical I was in front of the collaboration single between the two (even though the only duet with Liga that I remember, with Francesco Guccini almost 5 years ago, was well-received by critics and the public), imagining a very low-level pop.
I admit it: I was surprised. If you avoid being close-minded, believe me, you might even end up liking this song. The vocal part is mostly Elisa's, as is typical in Italian singer-songwriter music, there's no need for those distorted guitars and double bass that all metalheads, including me of course, love so much, the lyrics engage the listener until reaching the chorus, which even if it doesn't revolutionize the parameters of Italian and global music, I really liked: warm voice, present, essential words that manage to hit the right notes. A minute before the end, on a soft guitar background, Liga enters, whose duet with Elisa proves to be impactful, engaging, catchy.
To my surprise, full marks.
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