Mimmo Parisi
McDonalds's Angel, omaggio a Tugce

LA RECENSIONE

PARISI presents "McDonalds’s Angel". The new single by MIMMO PARISI is stylistically inspired by the golden rock sound of the 80s, but, as often happens in these cases, the reference to a certain way of conceiving arrangements and sounds is more of a suggestion for listeners than a strict guideline for those, like PARISI, who write and present music without market planning. Simply put, we are dealing with a genre influenced by guitar-driven neoclassicism (see Malmsteen) and, overall, a Hard Rock that is heavily influenced by the social climates of these early years of the third millennium.

“McDonalds’s Angel” is, from a textual point of view, a song born as a reaction to news that surfaced online at the end of yet another annus horribilis — since 2007, this is the only way to define the 365 days that alternate in the new century without major social solutions — namely, that event starring a girl whom the online community dubbed as “The McDonalds Angel.” Unfortunately, the fact is dramatic: two girls aged 13 and 16 in Offenbach, Germany, received unwanted attention from a group of young thugs; a twenty-two-year-old, Tugce, defended them and, upon leaving the venue, was attacked and left fighting for her life.

MIMMO PARISI, an independent singer-songwriter, has turned the entire affair, and with infinite respect for the tragedy, into a poignant and at the same time unpretentious piece. This is a song made and presented on tiptoe; PARISI entrusts the words and notes of this track to the waves of the internet like a kind of message in a bottle.

Here is the free download: https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1210127/mimmo-parisi