There is always a song that marks the summer. Maybe you don’t know it immediately, but a day of autumn happens that starts by chance, and you find yourself smiling, dreaming or maybe making an embarrassing ballet. That’s why the editorial staff of Vanity Fair created the final playlist of the summerstarting from a special song: Mediterranean – Dumar Remixan exclusive project with Warner Music that re -reads Russo’s masterpiece with a new sound, Danzereccio, and deeply evocative.
It is not a beach playlist, even if some songs could listen to them there. It is not a collection of catchphrases, even if someone has already entered the head. It is more than anything else an emotional collage: the songs that glue on them when the days stretch and in the air there is something new. Songs that speak of the sea, absence, desire to live and also a little melancholy. Summer is the time of light, but also long shadows. And this is its soundtrack.
1. Mediterranea – Dumar Remix – Giuni Russo, Dumar
Summer, in this Remix signed by Dumar, is electronic and mysterious. Russian Juni’s voice, so magnetic, slips on lunar synths and slow beats, like a siren that calls from another dimension. A tribute to its sensuality, freedom and the inner ocean of the listener. “Take me to dance or elsewhere” is the verse that remains.
2. Summer wind – Niccolò Fabi, Max Gazzè
A song that has become a cult: melancholy and light at the same time. “I will need to make peace with my thoughts” is the sweetest declaration of seasonal surrender. Exit in 1998, it is a real and mental wind that still crosses generations in search of a respite.
3. Island in the Sun – Weezer
Published in 2001, it became the symbol of an escape from reality, with that suspended and happy tone that seems to tell a holiday that will never end. “On an island in the Sun, We’ll be playing and having fun”: it’s a pop utopia, but you believe it to the end.
4. Gold – mango
An intense, visceral Italian summer, full of desire. The refrain “gold, gold, gold” is a hymn to sensual love that only in summer.
5. Green Light – Chromeo Remix – gross
In Chromeo’s remix, gross’s song lights up of new light, transforming the pain of the end into pure energy. “I’m waiting for it, that green light, i want it”: it is a liberating race, a night that lights up new possibilities.
6. Salt flavor – Gino Paoli
Released in 1963, photographed a seaside Italy that still fascinates today. The slow rhythm, the whispered voice, the flavor of a love lived in summer: it is a small film, short and poignant, which leaves sand on the heart.
7. Summer on – Jovanotti
It is a declaration open to excess, love, life. “Summer on him, one year has already passed”: melancholy is all inside this sentence, while the rhythm invites you to run, love, live. Soundtrack of a film, but also of millions of personal experiences.
8. Steep – Vance Joy
Folk-pop with ukulele and uncertain voice, it is the perfect song for those who feel a little out of place even under the sun. A song from 2013 that has become viral for its outfit sweetness and for that refrain impossible to forget.
9. The desire, the madness – Ornella Vanoni, Toquinho, VinÃcius de Moraes
Brazilian elegance and Italian sensuality meet in this pearl of 1976. Vanoni sings with a rough voice, full of desire and irony, while Toquinho draws the Saudade. It is summer as adults, made of looks, slow dance, red wine.
10. Thesummer is ending – Righeira
The catchphrase that marked the late eighties. “Summer is ending and a year goes / I’m becoming great, you know I don’t want”: the party ends, melancholy and autumn come. Yet you dance.
11. Doo Wop (That Thing) – Lauryn Hill
Masterpiece of 1998, it is feminism in a R&B key, but also energy from August afternoon with lowered windows. Lauryn Hill mixes irony and depth in a song that still has rare power today.
12. Starfish – Lucio Dalla
“Sea star between the sheets / our boat does not navigate, flies, flies”: it is perhaps one of the most beautiful verses of the Italian love song. The sea becomes heaven, the star a mirage, and Lucio Dalla Sing like those who have already loved too much.
13. Scar Tissue – Red Hot Chili Peppers
American and painful summer, deserts and highways. “With the birds I’m share This Lonely View”: a rock ballad that smells of melancholy and freedom. John Frusciante’s slide guitar does the rest.
14. Summer – Bruno Martino
The song that made the summer a wound. “I hate summer” is the most countercurrent and poignant declaration, which overturns everything: the sun does not warm up, burns. It is a perfect ballad jazz for those who no longer want to tan and feel all the weight of melancholy that only summer brings with it.
15. Veronica, n. 2 – Baustelle
A literary and decadent summer. Veronica is the idea of a woman, a lost love, a refined aesthetic that moves between synthesizers and references to Léo Ferré. It is the long shadow of the summers experienced with too much intensity.
16. Sugar feat. Francesco Yates – Robin Schulz
Club hit, with four in four and a very clean aesthetic. It is the aperitif song on the beach, perfect for dancing at sunset with a mojito in hand and the desire to leave everything behind.
17. Summer On A Solary Beach – Franco Battiato
A work of art in the form of a song. Summer is mental, dreamlike, lived on a beach that may not really exist. “We passed the summer on a lonely beach”: music transforms that solitude into personal epic.
18. All night long (all night) – Lionel Richie
Summer as a continuous party, tropical nights, dancing under the stars. Released in 1983, it is still one of the most iconic songs to evoke shared happiness, perhaps a little kitsch, but irresistible.
19. Sea – Luca Carboni
An escape from the present. “Mare sea, I want to drown”: inside there is a sweet irony that tells of elusive loves and desire to disappear, but also to find itself in the reflection of a wave.
20. Night that goes – Pino Daniele
The Neapolitan summer night: warm, sensual, full of expectations. Pino Daniele mixes blues and Mediterranean melody with his rough and melancholy voice.
Source: Vanity Fair
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