A shred of joy Blanco and Mina: text and meaning

“In the middle of the avenue, I played football/On the dirt road, which raised me/Where the sky is burgundy, surrounded by greenery/Where God created, expanses of nothing“. Blanco’s pen, writing is always hungry for images, he feeds on them voraciously and thus gives birth to his pieces. Which seem older than him, twenty years old, which precisely because of this solidity can embrace within themselves and involve the soul of the immense Mina. Blanco is a boy, when he talks about the success that robbed him of normal things, his favorite things (above all running naked in the woods), Blanco is a man, not only because in the black and white video, directed by Simone Peluso, he takes on the role of Alain Delon, but because with his songs he knows how to speak to everyone.Be careful not to underestimate Riccardo Fabbriconi, born in a small village in the province of Brescia made up of a handful of houses and his beloved woods around, because in addition to the mask of the character he loves to wear, behind the comic book villain, the super heroic film villain, there is an artist who composes and writes like few others. Blanco is exquisitely part of that wave of Italian musicians under 25 who like never before they know how to be inter and intra generational. Confirming that if genres aren’t already dead, we’re close. He is always the same in the studio and on his records, the one who has “a devil on his right shoulder who speaks to me and an angel on the left who saves me”.

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Mina was right to accept her invitation, and we have her to thank, as always. We say thank you again and again, that we have already stamped that “rapapapapapapapa” on our skin and imprinted on our heads. The finale belongs entirely to him, to the tiger from Cremona, whose voice soars as high as if it hadn’t even passed a day since his debut, when in 1960 he entered the hit parade for the first time with Moon Tinta song that will become a symbol of the years of economic boom. The tiger’s nose is not wrong, and the talent of the young, restless, romantic Riccardo must have caught it on the fly. As well as the look, which, this time Katy Perry would say, is like her “the eye of the tiger, a fighter/Dancing through the fire/’Cause I am a champion, and you’re gonna hear me roar“. Felines both, now caressing, now elusive, pimps and beautiful, Blanco and Mina gave us an autumn song in spring. Which doesn’t keep the promise of the iota of happiness of the title, it makes you want rain and that night falls early to be able to listen to it in its natural element. Nocturnes and felines, look what these two have done to you.