Arisa, Beasts and its contradictions

There are characters who escape any definition because they are unpredictable and elusive, and Arisa it’s one of them. Ever since we saw her sing Sincerity in 2009, with those thick glasses and that flaming red lipstick, we were convinced we were looking at a Cartoon, but it took years for Arisa to show us that that was just one of her many facets, capable of moving from a tenderly childish side to a sinisterly aggressive one, from the one who is not afraid of showing herself naked to the one who is not he is ashamed to apologize. Arisa, stage name of Rosalba Pippa, it is indefinable because it seems to escape any form of category, and this is why the public can only wonder if it exists or does it.

The interview with Beasts – it was his second – allowed to demonstrate that Arisa is, indeed, how we see her: sensitive, profound, but also naive and in need of attention. Her greatest asset is say what you think, for better or for worse: «It’s because I don’t have a press office», she jokes when pressed by Francesca Fagnani, and we understand her a little, given that a character like her, no stranger to twists and turns, is certainly very difficult to manage. He’s had plenty of traumas and disappointments, but Arisa, who calls herself «an anomalous being”, she never held back, demonstrating willpower and stubbornness that were anything but predictable. In work as well as in life follows the heart and instinct – let’s think, for example, of the push and pull as a teacher Friendsa position, the latter, which he left to probably land on Rai1 as a judge of The Voice Kids -, and this has often led her to find conflict as a terrain for confrontation.

«I’m considered a difficult artist, but they say that on purpose, because I have a very deep-rooted sense of duty that also comes from my origins”, says Arisa again Beasts, not hiding that she often changes her mind – during the interview she sometimes contradicts herself and backtracks – and that she is ready to face anything, making it clear that she doesn’t care much. Despite saying the opposite, it seems to us that she suffers from what happened with the LGBT+ community, but it is unfair that this misunderstanding is linked to her trust in Giorgia Meloni: Arisa antagonized part of the community because she used stereotypical and, at times, offensive terms towards a heterogeneous group of people who had indicated her as an icon. «I would like to try to broaden the representation we have in the media of the LGBTQIA+ community, which is not only made up of sketches, of merely dramatic things, but of very normal, cultured people”: this is the offending phrase. What is normality? And why did Arisa, who has always defined herself as outside the box, feel like using this adjective? This is the point you should clarify, but we trust that it is only a matter of time before everything falls into place.