A fighting robin was released on the occasion of the Sanremo Festival in 1997, almost two years after the death of Mia Martini. This album, dedicated to her sister, is very autobiographical. The lyrics, almost all written by Bertè, gather the anger, pain, despair, and disorientation of that period.
The title is inspired by a song by De Andrè for which permission was requested.
Loredana has something for everyone: from her ex-husband to the building manager, passing through Renato Zero to the total disdain for her father, to whom she even dedicates 3 tracks on the album.
The Bear's Skin is a correction of the song I Miss You dedicated to her ex-husband Borg some years earlier. ‘Because you, you don't miss me anymore at all’
In Condominium No. 10 there are an administrator and a bailiff who give no respite to the singer. ‘Leave me alone I also need to live’. She also has a go at Renato Zero for her financial problems, ‘It's all Zero's fault and I still don't work, but he doesn’t care that he's very pissed off’.
Renato Zero, the publisher of the album, sued because, unlike Loredana herself, he wanted a more pop album. The songs were re-sung by Bertè and the album was reissued. Another controversy, won by Bertè, arose for the song End-of-Century Rap, which is very current today, ‘Liberty is dangerous, just read history, because nothing has changed from the Middle Ages to the Middle East’.
A total of three versions were published: the first, which was withdrawn from the market; the second, which excluded End-of-Century Rap; and the third, which also includes the song Afternoons. I have the fourth reissue, edel of 2012, in an economical version in which all 12 tracks are together for the first time.
The ballad Special Train is noteworthy, an emblem of the artist's disappointment and disorientation. ‘We are all waiting to know how much longer it will take before we reach our destination for this life that deep down doesn't want us’; ‘I often wonder how some people are more and more arrogant even if they are worthless’.
The narrative continues in Heart on Hold with an almost defiant message ‘Screwed idiots, I am here, I am here waiting for the day to come’
Moon, the track presented at the festival, is dedicated to Mimì, and is a desperate scream of pain. ‘Who knows what happened to her... And who knows what happened to God’. The text begins with ‘And screw you moon’, but at Sanremo, it was changed to ‘Dark glasses moon’.
Touching and full of pain, Friday Zone. On May 12th, 1995, the day Mia died, it was a Friday. ‘In an evening, a giant May evening, that I lost and you even more great my love, my love, my love...’
There are two songs not written by Bertè. The Exodus, by Mariella Nava, is one of them. ‘We are without us, left as in exodus to lands that cannot be seen in an abysmal silence that hurts, that hurts this is the farce we call history this is the present of worse memory’.
The second is Really Father, which is a cover of Mia Martini. To complete the triptych dedicated to her father, to the disdain for her father, there are Father Master and the final message Happy Birthday Dad that closes the album: ‘The law says that only the law kills, but it's been 3 years since my father died and still he cannot die’’.
I am not a fan of Bertè, but I have always been curious to listen to this work. A small jewel. I recommend it to collectors.
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