Fine Before You Came
sfortuna

I don't know why I ended up listening to fbyc by I Cani on Spotify.

I like when it says damned bad luck, damned bad luck.

I like how it says it.

I like the piece.

Then I wrote damned bad luck on Google and a Vasco Rossi video appeared.

Dillo alla luna.

Can you imagine.

Vasco Rossi giving an incredible title to Fine Before You Came. Just like that.

Vintage Vasco Rossi, when he was liked, diobono, only by provincial tamarri. But not even. Vasco was liked by everyone and liked by no one. These are things hard to define. How do you do it?

Lietti also says it in an interview where he tries to act snobby, says he only likes the first three, then corrects himself saying plus a few random post-86 tracks.

I believe it because after '86 he made some tracks that, well, yes, Lietti's funny, but he's Vasco Rossi, after all, you know.

What a character, Lietti.

Then there's this thing about him being a Florentine who emigrated to Milan, and everyone knows it, I mean, even in an article in La Repubblica of Florence introducing a 2012 event, the journalist points it out, who knows why, maybe because we Florentines feel a bit of sadness towards those who "made it" in Milan.

That kind of funny, like wondering how much you miss lampredotto and how sad the morning fog is, making you feel like you're stuck in Osmannoro. Like Ametrano in Munich.

SFORTUNA is beautiful. I used to listen to it on the bus when I went to work downtown a hundred years ago early in the morning, and I really liked immersing myself in these cool lyrics, kind of down, and somewhat SAD yet with the slyness of someone who eventually made it, you know? Eh?

And yet, it might be that over the years nothing changed for me, and I started listening to it less and then stopped working downtown and taking the bus early, so it had been a while since I listened to it, and anyway, re-listened with €30 headphones, it sounds really good, I had missed this on the bus.