ONTD original - a discovery of Italian music, Festivalbar edition pt. 2

[anachan87]

Buonasera ONTD, I’m here once again to present you some more songs that wrote the history of italian summers, this week we will focus on the ladies.
Now, I have to admit that writing this post has been a bit of a struggle because Italy has a lot of great female singers, but I found it hard to find songs that were actually tormentoni, hence I want

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[tankmachine]

these aren't strictly relevant to this post i just want to further my italian music agenda now that maneskin is the new bts

[miwa201]

i didn't think i'd remember any of the songs but i clicked on di sole e d'azzurro and i remember that from when i lived in italy! giorgia always had a lovely voice

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[anachan87]

[nananeechan]

Is... that man embalmed?

[anachan87]

I mean he is 76 years old... but that gif is also not the best quality.

[palmsread]

op, will you do a post on 80s italo disco?

[anachan87]

I was planning on doing one on italo dance but I don't see why I could not expand it to feature italo disco as well :) (since from the top of my head, I can see both genres having lots of songs in english which are out of consideration for these posts)

[demented_21]

it's not in italian but when this came out it dominated:

(yes i'm old)

(and European)

also, mahmood is an icon and imo he should be even more successful.

and ngl, i also really like fransesco gabbani, i love that type of exuberant melodic pop music he makes. this song is an instant pick-me-up:

[nutella_forever]

"freed from desire" was EVERYWHERE!!!