Medium report after listening to the first 4 albums of Vasco Rossi: "...But what’s a song", "We’re not Americans", "Colpa d'Alfredo" and "We're just us."

Undoubtedly, there are a few nice tracks that I even noted down, such as: "... and then you talk to me about a life together", "La strega", "Anima fragile", "Incredibile Romantica", and a handful of other songs that can be counted on the fingers of a mutilated hand. Overall, I find them aged very poorly, with good and original irony that I think is only for boomers (Colpa d'Alfredo for the African friend with the long penis... hilarious, then so original). "Albachiara" undoubtedly has great emotional charge, aside from its radio overexposure. The theme here, however, is not very original; "Mariù" is 5 years older, and I presume there are other songs as well.

To summarize, having focused mainly on the lyrics, I found them banal, empty, and redundant. Still on the Pop side, if I want to make a comparison, I think that even an album like "Strada Facendo" by Baglioni or all of Zero's albums are leaps and bounds superior.

The only doubt that haunts me is the following: how is it possible that an album like "Finardi" (1981) doesn’t have millions of listens like those of Vasco? When it has much more refined pop ballads, even though they are power pop songs, full of catchy choruses that hit right away and verses that get straight to the point—not free from banality, mind you—but still much more penetrating and engaging.
Eugenio Finardi - May day
Vasco Rossi-Siamo solo noi

In the coming days, I will listen again to overturn or confirm my evaluation.