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If the winner decreed by the very complicated voting mechanism Of the new Sanremo of the records signed by Carlo Conti is Olly, for us there are two true winners of this edition: Lucio Corsi and Fedez. These are two artists at the antipodes as personal history (the first is a 31 -year -old so far unknown to the general public, very reserved for his private life; the second, at least as long as he paired with Chiara Ferragni, made his private life the focus of his activity); And as a musical history (the first is a minstrel who writes poetic and surreal songs, referring to the lesson of Ivan Graziani and Rino Gaetano, the second is a specialist rapper in the pack of pop catchphrases).
But we discovered that there is a very strong link between them, as they sing in their respective songs that led to the festival: the fear of darkness. And that’s why they are the real winners of this Sanremo. Because in their respective songs, Beat by Fedez e I wanted to be a tough by Lucio Corsi, they all told the fragility and the sense of inadequacy of a generation, that of those who are between 30 and 40 years oldof which no one speaks because, in that age group today’s society requires you, in fact, to be a tough man, a man and a woman who affirm themselves in work and (but after, only after) in personal life. And if you can’t do it here is what happens to you, As the 32 -year -old Mahmood sang In his latest single Sottomarini presented in the final evening: «There are those who judge you only for a hug. In the fragility we always see the rotten ”
In the festival days, one of the singers in the race, Clara, which became famous as an actress in the series Sea outsideopened in the center of Sanremo “The pharmacy of love”, a space in which to meet and take care of itself: Every day a psychologist, Dr. Laura Servidio, offered free consultations to those who feel they need it. We met her. He told us that in his opinion about 70% of the people with whom he spoke, teenagers, adults and the elderly, showed such a profound discomfort so he recommended to undertake a path of therapy. And when we asked her which age group is worse, the psychologist was clear: the 30-40 year olds. Why? “They don’t know who I am. If I ask to describe themselves with five words, they make a lot of difficulty because they have embarked on a way not for their choice, but to satisfy someone else’s will. So they find themselves living a life that is not theirs ». All this is perfectly found in the songs of Fedez and Lucio Corsi. The rapper explained that the woman he turns to is a personification of the depression against which he fights (“Take dreams, even my money, as long as he remains far from me”) and the beating of the title is the accelerated one of his heart that He torments him during the sleepless nights and who tries to fight with drugs (“I turn off the light and come and find me. Fluoxetine, little saliva”). In a less raw and more poetic way, but equally explicit, Lucio Corsi expresses the same discomfort caused by the pressure and expectations of the external world that we make of ours: «How hard the world is for normal ones. Who have little love around or too much sun in glasses. I wanted to be a tough, but I’m nobody. White judo belt, instead of a star one sneezing ».
We must have courage and ask for help as he told in the final evening Edoardo Bove, the 22 year old Fiorentina footballer who was between life and death last December due to heart illness who hit him while he was on the pitch: «I live ups and downs, because football is my form of expression, without I feel the same. I am empty, incomplete. It is as if I miss something, it is as if a singer took their voices or a person lost the great love. It takes courage. And tonight I want to thank all of you for the affection and tell you that I started a path of analysis to experience certain emotions that I felt, I will need for the future ».
But getting out of this logic of speed, performance at all costs, of the maximum result with minimal effort, is really difficult. We, in our little one, have experienced it in our work in Sanremo. Until a few years ago you came to collect a dozen interviews with the singers who were then published in the following days and weeks as they are still done, for example, in the film festivals. Vere interviews, where the singers met before the tests, in the dressing room or even while jogging on the promenade and where they had the opportunity to really show the public the many facets of their personality. Today, however, their management decides that often it is not worth even worth participating in traditional press conferences inside the Ariston. Better to organize “exclusive” events where, between a tartina and a glass of Prosecco, the artists tell jokes, sing songs of when they were children and answer sharp questions of some influencers such as “Do you think they have written your most beautiful song? “. The result is that, during the festival days, many singers, especially the less rude ones, appear as poor deficient that always repeat the same two banality. But this, evidently, to the system that revolves around them does not matter: what matters is to have maximum coverage on radio and especially on social networks. Then it is inevitable that someone no longer makes it and explodes. Last year one of the most loved singers among young people, Sangiovanni, at the end of the festival, announced that he wants to suspend all activities to preserve his mental health and since then we have not know anything about him anymore. Just as nothing is known about Angelina Mango, the winner of last year who announced a break last autumn because “I have to take care of me”.
Fortunately, there are also those who among the singers rebels this logic. The underestimated Rkomi in his The rhythm of thingssings: «I leave another party, I leave the algorithm. I find beauty only behind the unexpected “. They are only songs, as the great Edoardo Bennato reiterated on the Ariston, but they tell us so much about who we are.
