TO Sanremo 2024 The Kolors they have the song with the most disarming title: A boy, a girl. So simple and self-evident that, in these times of non-binaryism it seems like a reactionary dualism. Yet if the world is rainbow, it will also include «girl loves a boy and a boy loves a girl» how he sang Madonna in The good island and even Nino D’Angelo in his 1985 song of the same name. And certainly, between Big Mama and the other queer nuances of a disco oriented festival, the description of this knowledge – born from the sight of a boy trying to “break the ice” with a girl at Milan Central Station – doesn’t clash.
The group worked on the song for about a year. And the thing that satisfies them the most is the fact of having achieved a “The Kolors sound”a recognizable signature. “It’s a victory,” they said at the press conference.
The Kolorsat Sanremo 2024 with One boy one girl
But after the success (over 90 million streams) of Italodiscofirst in Italy and then in Europe, they don’t feel like pop funk pioneers. «We try to make our slice of cake well, even if it’s small, trying to make it authentic. We take sounds from the 80s and 90s and apply them to the present day, especially in the lyrics. Now, whether this makes us indie pop precursors, I don’t know, but that’s fine.”
To the song, in the rehearsals seen here in Sanremo, a possible catchphrase effect is also linked – not only in the chorus, also in Stash’s gestures on stage. «We hope it becomes one», he says. «It’s a dream of those who make pop to reach everyone, and we want it».
Alex Fiordispino, Antonio Stash Fiordispino and Daniele Mona: “The Kolors” at Sanremo 2024. (Getty Images)
The duet with Umberto Tozzi
On the duet with Umberto Tozzi on the covers evening (they will do a medley of the singer’s hits), they say they will try to amaze at all costs. «We want to pay respect to the artistic greatness of that person. We’ll start from I love youthen we’ll do it Youand we will conclude with Glory. That said, we’ll try to include a few more surprises. Tozzi loves jam sessions, improvisation, he prefers to be free, always interpreting things in a different way: we will try to understand better on stage.”
Always about One boy one girl: a video comes out tonight that immediately has a French adaptation. Of course, with Italodisco the penetration was absolutely European. With such a fierce fan base in Poland to have pushed them to work with Blanka – singer who participated in Eurovision 2023 with the song Alone and who contacted them on Instagram. One was born and featured in the new video.
Eurovision? “It would be a dream,” they say. «And we are sure it is for all 30 of us competing in Sanremo 2024. Anyone who says otherwise is lying».
The text
You need an idea
Continental
I would like to talk to you and I’m ashamed as a dog
You wait for the train
Me on my cell phone
I can’t find the ace to play
But now, come on, come on
You know that when you think you’re doing well, you end up under it
And you know, love can’t be sung in an eight verse
It’s the same, but I feel my skin burning, eh
I’m risking harm with you anyway, eh
But if you look at me like that
If you look at me like that
(Always the same story)
A boy
Meet a girl
Then the night doesn’t pass
The night goes away
A boy
Meet a girl
Lips on lips
Then what will happen
And I would buy the moon for you if I had money
Just to sing to you some more
A boy
Meet a girl
Then the night doesn’t pass
You’ll see it won’t end
You need an idea
More than bread
I would like to talk to you but I’m afraid of freezing
We are a crossroads
Fundamental
And I would need a key
But now, come on, come on
You know you’re a bullet in the heart but I had the jacket
And you know, looking for you is a bit like waiting at a broken traffic light
It’s the same but I feel my skin burning, eh
I’m risking harm with you anyway, eh
But if you look at me like that
If you look at me like that
(Always the same story)
A boy
Meet a girl
Then the night doesn’t pass
The night goes away
The cast of Sanremo 2024 is also based on their sound
In the pre-race hours, the group is calm. And he enjoys the festival atmosphere consciously of a quite extraordinary “comeback” that has occurred in this year and a half. Which goes from victory to Friends in 2015 until the current maturity.
A turning point – following a period of tarnishing following Maria de Filippi’s talent – which for The Kolors doesn’t feel like revenge, rather than the confirmation of hard work. It is no coincidence that, to identify this transformation process, they use the term “athletic”, which corresponds to physical effort. «Here, here in Sanremo we try to consolidate it.»
Someone reminds him that Amadeus revealed some time ago that – together with Maninni and the Ricchi e Poveri – their piece was the matrix of the artistic direction of all the other selected songs. “Did you know?” «How nice that he said this. His Sanremo was the Champions League of its kind, and we could only be delighted.”
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