Lucio Dalla - La mela
“The Unlistenable Dalla or the 19 Worst Songs of the Fluffy Bear.”
There’s another column going on about the worst of another artist, the famous porchetta vendor from Testaccio. It makes me think about how love has caused the poetic vein of these two artists to plummet. Venditti lost himself after the breakup with Simona Izzo, and Dalla lost himself after meeting Alemanno. The strange things in life: Antonellino in love wrote delightful things, while Dalla wrote them during periods of solitude and independence.
And this gem is the fourth song from “The Unlistenable Dalla or the 19 Worst Songs of the Fluffy Bear.” “The Apple,” let’s stay in 2007 with the album “The Opposite of Me.” Dalla in the throes of love with a semi-religious lyric (“THE APPLE OF THAT TREE, BABY/DO NOT TOUCH IT, DO NOT EAT IT/AND DO YOU KNOW WHY?/THERE'S A SNAKE/KEEP IT AWAY FROM YOU/DO NOT SAY ANYTHING/AND LEAVE THE APPLE WHERE IT IS/WE LIE UNDER THE TREE, BABY/NAKED AND FRESH IN THE NIGHT/NAKED YOU AND ME/YOU AND ME....BUT YOU....NO, YOU../JUST FOR A BITE YOU TOOK/EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD HAS CHANGED”).
Dalla had an immense voice; he used it just like an instrument. Here, I find it ugly. Thrown away, poorly used. But what can you do, love plays cruel tricks.