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Rating: Orietta, Orietta, what beautiful songs you made us hear. Better her than other more avant-garde performers who didn't really excite me. Because Orietta is a piece of the history of our home's music, the most popular soul alongside Nilla Pizzi, Iva Zanicchi, and the Cinquetti. Everyone at my house likes her, from my grandmother to me, and when I don't want to forget a woman, I sit in the armchair and want to listen to her. I can't see music without her, I even had the fortune to see her in a concert.
What does it mean that many may not like her, she is an undisputed idol, queen of the black-and-white festivals. How beautiful it was to see her among those flowers, in that vintage atmosphere, soared away with modernity that is erasing our musical culture. I try to save these performers, one day we will miss them, when we are invaded by anti-melodic Anglophone music, we will invoke her name again, and only then will Orietta be seen from another perspective. Now is the time to reconsider some thoughts on these artists (all specifically), I admit, I still feel them today. Yes, exactly, but why should I let these songs escape me, give me a valid reason, make me understand. And then she was also very beautiful, I liked her, she had everything on her side. Not a flaw, beautiful voice, the setting of the songs very 50s, from a gramophone. That was what we were, she has always remained the same, she never changed, it is the others who have changed, she in her honesty is a role model to follow.
Today in modern music her heir is missing, I haven't managed to find them yet, but maybe it's really difficult. Not everyone can be Orietta Berti and sing songs that we will never stop hearing like "Tu sei quello", if it were dedicated to me, I would be the happiest man in the world, I love this song. How beautiful her performance is, it asks to be understood, she tells the person of her dreams that they are worth more than everyone else, someone you meet once forever, not to be let go. Not to mention "Io tu e le rose", Orietta says she is present, just because the other exists, in a spring now gone. Beautiful too is the waltz "Tipitipitì" still played at festivals, the evergreen "Fin che la barca va", one of the first hymns to optimism, it brings joy and makes you want to sing it, but I would also give some regard to "Via dei ciclamini" where she talks about Italy rising from the ruins of war and wanting to think of something else and look to tomorrow with more happiness.
In my opinion (leaving aside the purely musical aspect) this is national history, I can't define it differently. Orietta Berti can be loved or hated but it's absurd not to understand what she represented. Look around you, and you will see how many admirers the legendary Orietta has. Look among the elderly and the younger ones, do not forget this. If someone says (and I agree) that the songs of the great contemporary poets should end up in school books, I say that interpreters like this one also deserve it, at least for having represented the common tastes of the people, who made her a symbol. For this, I say thank you to Orietta Berti and maybe one day her role in those years will truly be understood.
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