Dargen D’Amico, I grow old quickly

If you want to quote the title of another piece of hers, what does the Bitter blood?
“The life we ​​live is unnatural. We should get back in touch with nature, and that song is the spring that pushes us towards a tree, towards an isolated house, the spring that makes us turn off the phone. Thus bitter blood is avoided ».

Use social media very little. It’s a choice?
«I don’t feel the need, I do it because it is the main means of promoting music. In reality, I cannot share my intimate feelings with those who do not know my human path. Anyway, what really scares me about social media is that I find them dangerous. I’m 41, the danger for me today is small, but I know it can be very difficult for a kid ».

After the inadmissibility of the cannabis referendum he tweeted: “Politics favors organized crime.” How much do you care about politics?
“A policy that does not care about the future, that does not plan the needs of the country, that does not act, cannot reach – at least from my point of view – a sphere of interest”.

On Google, next to his name, “without glasses” appears in the first place.
«I prefer to (also) visibly separate my person from the character. This is the answer to glasses. It’s always me, with or without, but I don’t want to get confused ».

In second place, however, we read “girlfriend”.
“I don’t feel the need to talk about it, if it’s private it’s private. When you demean the secret, you lose the dimension of the gestures; in the end, private life is made up of the gestures that you like to live in total autonomy, without anyone being able to influence them “.

Does Fedez, with whom you have collaborated often, call him a friend?
“Yes definitely”.

Is it difficult to keep friendship and music together?
«It is risky to be friends with artists, it is easy to meet even very deep disappointments. We are all selfish and autonomous. But I have always found interesting strengths and weaknesses in others, because if you start from those it’s easier to open up, tell your own “.

Is it true that you don’t remember where Dargen came from?
“No, I know that well. It is the abbreviation of D’Argento, the name I had as a boy, for the desire to make the minimum wage. I must admit that I have made several choices in my life out of laziness. Maybe this is my Sicilian side that comes out ».

In one of his famous songs he says: «It will certainly not be a record that corrects the world. And it certainly won’t be mine, if Dalla hasn’t changed it with How deep it is“. So what is it that an album can do?
«He can keep company with the people who listen to him, then it is the individuals who carry out the actions. Maybe a record can give a stimulus. Maybe it’s like a glass of wine, which is just a glass of wine, but it’s not just a glass of wine. ”

To subscribe to Vanity Fair, click here.