Elisa and Cesare Cremonini, the Avengers of the “well done” pop, united the forces for a song

They know each other since the beginning, but Cesare Cremonini and Elisa they took 25 years to do A piece together. Indeed, to make two. It will be, as they say, that it has served time to really bind, become friends, get to know each other, study, in short, find the right song and spirit to be worth it. Or it will be that, when they started, late millennium last, the world of music was another thing, the artists were few and there was not all this anxiety to churn out a feat. After the other – to make your name run, to cross the fanbase and Flies of listening on Spotifyin short, for all those reasons why you do it today, because they are really all friends. Maybe. The fact is that, when it happens to two of the old school, like them, well, it feels: in December they had signed Boreal Auroreballatona put in Alaska BabyCremonini’s last album; Four months later, now, they return with Despite it alla single.

Basic is a disco songelectronics, a genre that both had already touched in the past, with an invitation to enjoy life and not to hide in front of happiness. Cremonini part, then there is Elisa’s voice, made; So the piece opens, and begins to move and really move. It is a game of shapes and interlocking, It has the lightness suitable for the summer and radio, but does not smell of the factory, nor does it have the arrogance or urgency of streaming or Tiktok songs, which must immediately capture the attention, hit, far from. Talent and profession. Walks on the thin wire of the tiptoday the minimum common denominator of many hits, but without crashing, indeed testifying that alternative use – the same that, in part, concerns Now that I don’t have you anymorewhich in fact went to wedding with Remix Fior – is possible. And luckily.

It starts with “the flavor of the sea”, there are the “lips” and, in short, beyond everything she must pull the sprint towards the summer, which will see them both protagonists in the stadiums – For Elisa that of San Siro will be the first live ever in the plant. As well as, in fact, to play in the championship of summer catchphrasesof course, but in their own way, in a race that has gone down in recent years (few of them are remembered that have followed the vein, however focusing on quality and crafts, recently perhaps only Indian love of the Baustelle with Tommaso Paradiso), but in which Cremonini, more than Elisa, has shown that he knows how to say his own, from Logic #1 (2014) a Have a good trip (2015), until the previous one World (2010), A duet with Jovanotti who had him Re-launched his career after a decade of post-Lùnapop misunderstandingsfailed by prejudices that, while growing well as a songwriter, continued to treat him as a Cantantino for teenagers. “It was Jovanotti who tell me:” You will do the stadiums “” he recently remembered, as a sign of a period enough of the weak. Here we are.

Elisa also needed a duet – see, sometimes, the appeals – to take flight, specifically with Ligabue in The obstacles of the heartthat the Emilian rocker had written for her in 2006 and which remains one of the few cases within her piece discography in which she did not even put the signature. But they were other times and feat. they were not inflated. The story is known: liquidated too often as “the Italian Björk” (which, however, having), Elisa has struggled to be understood by the general publicwho recognized her talent, not immediacy; Thanks to the sang in English, the alternative attitude and a shy attitude, as a painful, which still has, however in an era when women were often only interpreters, she also spent the zero years has launched the adequate shots to be understood – Light (north east sunsets), I would like to lift youthe same The obstacles of the heart – As he refined the instruments of the trade. Twin soul in this sense of Cremonini, despite different stories behind them, share a strange paradox: Neither has never been famous as today, almost on the threshold of the fifty.

In an era that opens the stadiums to relatively young artists, with the risk sometimes more than concrete to burn them, and in which according to everyone it is easier to emerge than to stay, they have arrived there latefrom classics, after often twisted and not always winning careers. Nevertheless. Yet they sowed, they played on the long distance, a faithful audience and a style, precisely, outside the fashions: Like class crafts, which never really passes. A crescendo, convinced of one’s own ideas. Of course it will be necessary to understand that laps will do this Despite it alla test, given the level and the moment, what the public is willing to follow and support today. It will be, here, indicative. But the message must not pass that this somehow be a nostalgia operation: There were many bad songs even when they started them, they had both tinning moments, but pieces of this type – who do not have the anxiety to approve themselves and who know the value of a duet, just see how their voices meet – are not retairs of a past era but, indeed, they can say a lot even today. Let’s listen to them.