IS the singer whose head never stops, in the sense of thoughts that run and question everything. Still, come on Sanremo 2023 and the song Two livesMarco Mengoni has clear enough ideas: «zero wishful thinking». He certainly likes the idea of another possible victory (after first place in 2013 with The essential), but the stadiums filled in the meantime and the safety to maneuver a language of its own they dropped anxieties from Festival. «I am in the grace of God – he says at 34 and in great shape. «Now I can go there without pressure».
It also says that with other colleagues you text and discuss. Definitely with Madame And Georgia (with whom he collaborated for I will trust And Like snow), although it is not difficult to imagine a wider circle. Which is paired with the new image of Sanremo, the Sanremo-Amadeus.
No more a list of Big in questionable juxtapositionbut a group of artists homogeneous in spirit of research and points of view. Where everything matters, the songs matter the most (damn if they count), the look matters a lot, and the party – between social media and generalist TV – it has no first class. «Everyone wants to do well the of him»: and what is the thing that Marco Mengoni can you do better? The analysis of the state of things. In short, the essential. Which, however, has changed a bit in 13 years of career: «Today corresponds to reflecting less, thinking the right thing. Forget the cameras of Sanremo and to think that you are there with the orchestra, a beautiful thing».
Two lives: little breath, many words, a lot of tension
Therefore a more relaxed Marco but still there to look for answers, those that he summarizes in “a different face of the experience”. Sanremo can, in fact, also be this, especially for him: the background of a profound illustration of the self.
After all, in describing Two lives – song written with David Petrella And David Simonetta, first song of the last chapter of the trilogy Matter – uncomfortable the amygdala and hippocampus (the centers of emotion). Personal “debate” centers between dream and reality, which make up the singer’s “neverending story”.
What a test a trusting synthesis between impulses in tension, errors and truths, boredom and euphoria. Trusting more in the oneiric “reality” than in the optical one. But the message contained in the ballad, almost rapped, is simple. Bundled up and full of mirrored imagessays that life is, baglionistically, now. Therefore a reconciliation of opposites, those that affect everyone, is healthy. And the musical structure of Two lives forcefully detonates her after a buildup of voltage that nearly knocks her out. To then suddenly reduce to zero, to the initial piano. It’s hard not to get caught up in it every time you listenwithout really understanding what happened.
Of course, then the songs take on meanings independent of the artist, and in fact here is the caveat: “See what you want in it for me Two lives it means this”.
Marco Mengoni. (Photo Andrea Bianchera)
What is certain is that «I will end up leaving the vocal cords», he adds jokingly and not joking, knowing full well how he manages to perform virtuosity without the slightest apparent effort. But she also has in mind Let it be of the Beatlesthe cover chosen for Friday evening, that of the duets.
San Remo 2023, Let it be with The Kingdom Choir and the tour
With the help of the gospel choir The Kingdom Choirthe “little song” in Olympus some untouchable passages that otherwise are trouble it promises an event of rising voices to great effect. Safe from dangerous slips or made faded due to minimal text that requires maximum control.
«Sustaining the song alone is tough»in fact Marco tells us about this duet «Let it be it is an entity, something universal, something giant. More voices are better than one.”
The San Remo 2023 of the singer will also have another center of gravity in addition to the Aristonthe Lido Mengoni. A place that revolves around its Sanremo week, a meeting and passage place, of table football challenges and crushes seven, and of chatter-confessions with Fabio De Luigi collected in daily podcast Coffee with lemon.
All this while the next record travels between pre-production and arrangements and writing. «I’m very happy, it’s cute», he says slyly. “The subtitle already exists, it will come out after Sanremo and before the stadiums”. That is before June 17thstarting date #Marconeglistadi, the new tour that debuts at the Stadio Comunale di Bibione. Concert-show in which it will be explored the whole trilogy Matteruntil the apotheosis of the gathering a San Siro scheduled for July 8.
The text of Two lives
We are the only ones awake in the whole universe
And I still don’t know your desert well
Maybe it’s somewhere in my heart
Where the sun is always off
Where sometimes I lose you
But if I want I’ll take you
We are stuck in such a time
Which lifts the streets
With the sky one step away from here
We are the monsters and the fairies
I should phone you
Tell you the things I feel
But I’m out of excuses
And I have no more defenses
We are a book on the floor
In an empty house
Which looks like ours
Coffee with lemon
Against hangover
You look like a blurred photo
And we fucked one more night
Outside a club
And thank goodness
If this is the last
Song and then the moon will explode
I’ll be there to tell you you’re wrong you’re wrong and you know it
There’s no music here
And you don’t sleep
And where will you be
Where do you go
When life then exaggerates
All the runs the slaps the mistakes you make
When something upsets you
I know that you don’t sleep sleep sleep sleep sleep never
What turns do two lives
We are the only ones awake in the whole universe
Shouting a little rage on a rooftop
That no one feels this way
That no one watches movies anymore
The flowers in your room
My chain mail
We are a book on the floor
In an empty house
Which looks like ours
Lost among people
How many words
Without ever an answer
And we fucked one more night
Outside a club
And thank goodness
If this is the last
Song and then the moon will explode
I’ll be there to tell you you’re wrong you’re wrong and you know it
There’s no music here
And you don’t sleep
And where will you be
Where do you go
When life then exaggerates
All the running and slapping the mistakes you make
When something upsets you
I know that you are not sleeping
Turn off the light even if you don’t like it
We stay wrapped up in the dark
Just from the sound of the voice
Beyond the madness that dances in all things
Two lives, look at the mess
If this is the last
Song and then the moon will explode
I’ll be there to tell you you’re wrong you’re wrong and you know it
There’s no music here
I know that you don’t sleep sleep sleep sleep sleep never
What turns do two lives
Two lives
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