Non is there Sanremo without controversy. And the first has already arrived. A controversy born after a few words of Simone Cristicchi on the his song, When you are small. A song in which the singer tells the disease of a mother and the impact that it has on a son, forced to become a parent of his own parent. With a song-poetry, Cristicchi excited the Ariston audience and the one in front of the TV: it is difficult to hold back the tears listening to certain words. And now the artist, one of the favorites of Sanremo 2025, reveals that That song had written it five years ago and which had been discarded by Amadeus, previous conductor of the festival before Carlo Conti.
Simone Cristicchi and the success of When you are small
Standing ovation: so the Ariston audience welcomed the song When you are small. “I thought worse,” reveals the singer at Corriere della Sera. Explaining: “When I saw the standing ovation I could not believe it … I didn’t imagine it also came to young people. I thought this song was suitable for a more adult sensitivity, aged 25 and over ».
The story of When you are small
Simone Cristicchi in Sanremo 2025 (Getty Images)
The song is a personal story about the mother’s illness, hit by a cerebral hemorrhage In 2012, only 63 years old. “Tells my experience. It has changed over time. In the first drafting There was no passage on anger in the special Because in my personal experience that moment came later and I wanted to emphasize my wounded part too ».
Simone Cristicchi: “My song written five years ago and proposed to Amadeus”
A personal song that Cristicchi has held in the drawer for five years. “I had also proposed it to Amadeus», Reveals to Courier. But, evidently, without obtaining a positive response. “I am a fatalist and I think it is the songs that decide when they are ready for others “he explains by pointing out that he is not angry with the previous conductor of the Festival. “On the contrary, I thank Amadeus for not having chosen it: in his festivals I would have been uncomfortable and out of place».
Thanks to Amadeus my children look at Sanremo
Words, his, on which Simone Cristicchi has returned to specify that he has no resentment against Amadeus. Simply, in the Carlo Conti Festival “There is more room for the songwriter “said the singer intervening to The right time, Caterina Balivo program. And he pointed out: «Thanks to Amadeus my children look at Sanremo: it was he who approached young people at the Festival “.
Amadeus’ response
According to reports from sources close to the conductor a Fanpage.it, Cristicchi’s for Amadeus was A beautiful text “but maybe not for that festival”.
Amadeus, therefore, believed that Song «very particular, felt. But there were other songs that touched different themes and this He came out of his musical mosaic».
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