Gigi D'Alessio
Quando la mia vita cambierà

An album that definitively brings Gigi D'Alessio into the musical scene not only in Naples but nationally as well, aided by his participation in the Sanremo Festival with "Non dirgli mai", it follows in the vein of the previous one, with obvious plagiarisms, both musical and textual. The song brought to Sanremo is a clear copy of "Quando lui ti chiederà di me" by Pooh, dating back to the previous year; "Domani" is a blatant plagiarism of "Nei giardini che nessuno sa" by Renato Zero, from whom he had already shamelessly stolen "Cercami" to compose "Quel che resta del mio amore". With "E vai!!!" he even reaches the point of plagiarizing Cristina D'Avena, with an evident similarity to the theme song of "Robin Hood". Poor tracks like "Bellissima", "Amore mio" and the title track. The Spanish-tinged attempt of "Como suena el corazon" slightly raises the level of the album, as do the piano of "Una notte al telefono", the solo in "Caro bambino Gesù" (which, however, features an unforgivable repetition: "Cambierà, la nostra vita cambierà"!), and the short finale, similar to the previous album, "Bella canzone mia". But there is one track that gives this album two stars: "Sole, cielo e mare" with the collaboration of Lina Sastri and Peppe Barra, perhaps the only track by Gigi D'Alessio that deserves three stars in his entire career. Awful and indefinable cover, with Gigi hiding his face in his hands. Not bad for an album composed in a month and a half anyway, from December 17, 1999, to January 30, 2000. The subsequent "Il cammino dell'età" will continue again in the vein of plagiarism and self-plagiarism.