https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WgCtuxGgEo

Salt and Water, a 1998 Italian pop song performed by Adriano Celentano and Mina.
( Lyrics )

Today I've chosen a male singer, Luigi "Gigi" Finizio. I don't know anything about him, never heard his other songs, but I picked this one because I really like it. It ranked 3rd in 1995's national song contest in the "youth" category, as wikipedia kindly informs me ( Read more... )

This one is an oldie so hold your femminist comment when you read that the man walks, the woman "follows" him. They are both okay with it, mind your business! XP ( Read more... )

Another Loredana Berte' song, the one that makes me go sentimental the most: "I am not a lady".

My interpretation: It seems to be from the perspective of a whore who reminds herself bitterly to stay level-headed and pragmatic. The singer could be drawing from her biography, as she used to work for a "show club" before being discovered by the ( Read more... )

I'm creating a new tag, "song". It's mainly music I've heard when I was little, cassettes that my parents played while I was too young to even understand the lyrics. I've associated them with my childhood so I get quite sentimental upon hearing them.

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Ai suonatori un po' sballati          
To the wacky music players
ai balordi come me ( Read more... )

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Stesso tasso di gioia                       
Same joy rate
Assuefatti alla noia                          
Addicted to boredom
Viviamo cosi' mondi sommersi        
We live like this, submerged worlds
Tutti da scoprire.                             
All to be discovered.
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I've become a huge fan of Eros Ramazzotti <3 I like his old hits, his voice is connected to my childhood and by now is so familiar.

This is from 1993, a typical bittersweet song about post-breaking-up, in which the author wonders where can he find "another you" (Un'Altra Te). Then he goes on to add "another trouble like you". You'll see that ( Read more... )