This article is published in number 9 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until March 2, 2021
To fully understand the title and meaning of the song that Willie Peyote has chosen to present at the first Sanremo Festival of his career must start from Boris, the cult series broadcast by Fox from 2007 to 2010 which will soon return with a new season on Star, the new section of Disney +. In an episode that became historic, Valerio Aprea instructed his colleagues on the so-called “craziness”, defined as «the worst conservatism which, however, is tinged with sympathy, color, sequins».
“That monologue really inspired my approach to the song, because it is evident that today in culture only entertainment counts. The sentence with which the text begins, then, is emblematic: what’s more fitting than a Sanremo with music inside while death is outside? “ asks Peyote, stage name of Guglielmo Bruno, in connection with Zoom, explaining that his intent is not so much to provoke but to stir the waters, to make fun of the world to which he himself belongs, including that of the major majors who often chase the phenomena of the moment dancing on TikTok.
“I’m making fun of everyone, I’m like the court jester who was the only one who could go to the king and tell him he was a jerk. Here, I’m the jester of this Sanremo “Willie insists, ready to face the most feared stage for an artist, passing “from being very happy to be there to thinking that I have done the biggest bullshit of my life”.
Think after listening Mai dire mai (locally) will anyone get angry?
“If they get angry, it means they haven’t analyzed the text. I just want to do what Ricky Gervais did at last year’s Golden Globes: there’s an elephant in the room, nobody wants to talk about it, so I’ll talk about it. I want to make fun of everyone, including myself ».
So you too are a «hype slave»?
«Of course, we are all slaves to these mechanisms. We know there are rules, but can we ask ourselves for a second if they are right? ‘
It is certainly curious that he sings it in Sanremo, the stage where anyone who breaks the rules makes a scandal.
«The thing that amuses me most is that this year the indie share is Orietta Berti. The real initiative today in Sanremo is doing Sanremo. The new advances are fine but, if we think about it, Orietta is unique because she does something that no one does anymore. That’s why I cheer for her ».
Is the ranking important?
«The bookmakers give me a favorite, but if I win it would mean they didn’t understand why I went there. I don’t even go there to participate, but to live. Not to mention that Sanremo is the only place where you can play now ».
Is that why you participate?
“The past years I have always refused, but this time it is different: Sanremo can really represent a restart for the whole sector”.
Does singing in front of an empty audience inhibit you?
“I grew up singing without an audience, I’m used to it. Better not, so I don’t end up like Crozza in 2013 ».
Since when hasn’t he been performing live?
«I was one of the last to play in Italy, it was February 28, 2020. And I have to consider myself lucky because at least I started the tour. The aftermath of this thing is devastating, not least the fact that we have had the confirmation of taking ourselves too seriously ».
She too?
“It happened until I had self-esteem. I’ll be 36 in a while, and it’s a relief to know that I’m no longer on cock like I did when I was a teenager. Today I don’t take myself seriously, but the music I make ».
Why did you get on cock as a teenager?
«I didn’t like me, I was the brainless loser, I asked myself too many questions and I didn’t have great feedback from the other sex: I felt like a foreign body. I realized later that in order for things to work I would have to stop wanting to be what I wasn’t. “
Who did he want to be?
«Anyone who could do what I wanted to do in life, any musician whose poster I had in the room, from Eminem to Fabri Fibra. Then I discovered that I had something good too and incredibly things started to work. When I stopped worrying about the judgment of others, I began to like others. “
How long did it take?
“Up to the age of 27, through a job that made me sick: I worked in a call center, I wanted to kill myself every morning I went there but, thanks to that experience, I discovered that I was good at communicating and that people listened to me” .
It was in those years that he discovered Boris?
“Yes, those were the years I suffered from depression, I went to therapy and I realized that there were many people who were more entitled to be depressed than I was. I cured myself without the meds because I thought I could do it on my own. Depression, at times, is just a mistake of thinking ».
For someone to even return Boris is a mistake.
«A Boris I will always love, but I’m afraid that the authors will self-censor themselves as I was about to self-censor myself when I wrote the song for Sanremo. The real challenge today is to be able to understand how to send a message while managing not to bother anyone ».
In what sense did he censor himself?
“I sent the first version of the text to several of my friends, from Daniele Fabbri to Pippo Civati, to find out if the sentences arrived in a certain way. I know they’ll fuck my dick anyway, but at least they can’t say my twerk joke is mansplaining. “
What do you expect after Sanremo?
“To get back to playing as soon as possible, I do this job to do concerts.”
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