Patty Pravo
Pigramente signora

"Pigramente signora" is an album "crafted with style".

You can sense it right from its cover and title.

The chosen photo for the work depicts the singer in a pose that returns the image of a Renaissance lady caught in the midst of a quadrille.

The song that baptizes the entire album can then be understood as a programmatic manifesto of the sweet life at court. Any woman of the palace, lounging in her indolent life of riches, can indeed be considered "Pigramente signora", where her nobility is expressed in a yawning abandonment to ballets, jewels, and baroque furnishings.

Of course, since we are talking about Patty Pravo, the analysis wouldn’t be entirely fitting if we did not highlight how this "modus vivendi" for the artist could be better translated into a alien adherence to her own nobility. As the verses of ""Pigramente signora" say, Nicoletta Strambelli is

"Donna di più, quasi una idea"

she is

"pigra... ignara Signora"

She appears as a chimera and, like the sirens, draws from the lips of her supplicants, loving invocations:

"rimani... il nome tuo qual è?"

Originally released in 1988, and now reissued for the first time on CD in a remastered version, the album does not originate with a true concept. It contains: "Pigramente signora", a song presented at Sanremo 1987, the singles "Day By Day" and "Contatto", as well as six tracks from the Italian "historical repertoire", among which "Che m' e 'mparato a fa" and "Come le rose" stand out for elegance.

Overall, despite its heterogeneity, each piece seems well blended with the others; if not for content, at least for the similar imprint noticeable in the arrangements.

Returning finally to the inert adherence to existence mentioned at the beginning, we are left with a curious observation: does "Il terzo uomo" perhaps allude to the horrors of fascism?

"A third man never distinguishes between good, good and evil. And his theories, follies, lies, make him ruin..."

The song comes from the soundtrack of the film of the same name, directed by Carol Reed, in 1949. Hearing these verses inevitably makes one think of the monstrosities brought by what was intended to be presented as the "third way" politics, only to drag the Italian people, in some ways inert like a lazy lady, into the abomination of war.