The review of caramelthe new album by Angelina Mango released surprisingly on October 16, 2025.
“Nina sings” and finally she does it the way she wants, the way it is right for a high-level singer-songwriter to do.
Yes, Angelina Mango she is a 360° singer-songwriter and this new album of hers is not pop. This is naked and raw songwriting, pure in its essence, full of life and anecdotes told with the gracefulness that only those who do this job know.
This year, among other things, we haven't had who knows how many female singer-songwriter albums because the trend has been almost entirely pop. Annalisa, Sarah Toscano, Gaia, Rose Villain and many others wrote their own songs, some more or less, but the melodies and arrangements proposed were and are pop.
The world”at Lucio Corsi” (so you have a clear reference), in the female field, has been almost absent with the exception of Carmen Consoli, La Nina, Giulia Mei, Gaia Banfi and little else.
If we put all these names together, among other things, we understand how numerically the sector is in difficulty if we analyze the sales data, therefore Angelina with his caramel it almost becomes a beacon in the dark.
In short, put simply: Angelina Mango has returned to save (statistically) itself and an entire production chain.
ANGELINA MANGO CREATES AN (ALMOST) PERFECT DEBUT ALBUM
The public had to wait a year to hear something new from this girl who has been through everything and who has revolutionized her life. First the stop due to the illness, then immediately rehabilitation which was followed by enrollment at university.
In the meantime, evidently, he has chosen to entrust his rebirth to music and writing and he really feels it. This is not just a simple album, it's more. This is the manifesto of what it means to feel bad, understand it, analyze yourself and do anything useful to be able to get back on your feet and start again.
Carame is everything it should have been, ideally, Poké Melodrama: a debut album in which we tell our story in detail without superstructures and with sincerity.
A secret diary that is opened and made available to better understand who you are dealing with, not just an album, not just a mere 'product' for the market.
Angelina Mango she was never a 'product', she became one due to force majeure and she benefited from it in terms of popularity and results but she was and is something else.
If anyone listens to this album, but also Studio apartmentand claims the opposite or doesn't understand anything about music or is in bad faith, there is no other way.
Why does he win? Why Angelina Is it a step above all the others? Because she manages to be credible even far from her world, that of Caramebut it's clear that going into that territory means pushing yourself harder physically and psychologically.
Music is a sweet thing, it's a journey to take, letting yourself be lulled by intense emotions and stories that make you cry, producing something emotionally strong right down to your gut. Then we can jump on stage in tight onesies, do choreography and everything we want but music, real music, is pure emotion. It's truth. Carame this is it, the truth of Angelina Mango.
CARAMÉ IS FAMILY, IT'S A FEELING BORN AND FINISHED… IT'S LIFE
Angelina she needs sugar, affection, sweetness and she almost asks for it from herself immediately, at the opening of the album with the title track. “Dear Me, bring me the candy“.
It almost seems like a way to tell all listeners that what they will hear in their headphones will be a story to experience with a smile, eating sweets and listening.
Continue with 7UP is the confirmation: “if it passes I swear I'll tattoo your names along my legs because I can't walk alone, I can't breathe“, then continuing with “It's not the applause, it's not the bow, it's the courage to appear weak“, something she hasn't been able to do since Friends onwards.
Showing yourself for what you are, if you end up facing that type of path, becomes practically impossible and collapsing is more than a hypothesis.
Showing fragilities is also the theme of Fragile packagewhere he talks about panic attacks, anxiety when he was on tour and how, in the eyes of others (or perhaps someone specific that we don't know), he always had to be a machine and not a human being with his crises and moments of weakness to be welcomed and not hidden.
Here the songwriting explodes alone but also in company, with the presence of Madame in a song where Angelina he writes as if he were talking to the other part of himself, played by Francesca Calearo. Is called I hey.
“I lack the enthusiasm to look at your face” is the phrase, the incipit of the next song that she dedicates to her ex-boyfriend, in which she tells everything she has felt with him over time, remembering the happy and leisure moments.
This story, these memories, these emotions are deepened and expanded in like a Childthe most beautiful and intense song of the entire project. One of those songs that remain forever.
A song that could also be dedicated to her ex but also to her dad. And here the potentially familiar side comes in, given that mylove it is or at least seems to be written as a love letter to mother.
The interlude, Nina Singsis clearly putting down on paper everything that others have expected of her and how she has experienced it.
“Come on Nina Sing” repeated like a mantra, almost as if he were telling you “now just repeat it to me”.
veil over the eyes it is another piece of life, the one that refers to the moments in which Angelina she seemed absent, almost as if she had a veil over her eyes that prevented her from seeing the world for what it was and is but, at the same time, it is the awareness that now we need to live and remove this veil. The past is the past, fortunately, and we are playing “cards exposed”.
Back to Mangoa Pine Mango and to his memory in we missed the end. There is an intensity in this song which is something sensational and which explodes above all in the phrase “A little girl with too many stories to tell, ten years later I let you go…“And I shed tears thinking of this family in love, bound by memories and an eternal love.
Starting to live again also means getting back into the game with feelings, as he says in Hand grenade. Analysis of the past, study of problems, acceptance and restart. The song is this but also much more, because in acceptance there is also the awareness that, perhaps, a little more time is needed before returning to love.
ANGELINA IS WELL AND IT'S THE BEST NEWS, EVEN MORE THAN THE ALBUM
“It's just that the more you give me affection, the more I feel like I'm doing something wrong” is the phrase, addressed to the public, of aiaiai. No Nina, you didn't do anything wrong and the public has always given you the love you deserved and deserve. They waited for you without judging and it was a wait that you repaid with a manifesto album in which you put your all.
The people have seen this and are seeing it. Those who come later will also see it and, above all, you will see it in a few years when you look back and analyze your life, your music, aware that you did everything you had to.
After all, you say so too igloos: “You'll understand when you grow up that all this shit made sense“.
Everything makes sense in these, almost, 50 minutes of life that you have told and the only thing that can be done is simply tell you THANK YOU.
Thank you for giving us good, simple music, but thank you for trusting the world around you and making us understand who you really are, with all your fragilities.
You know, reviews should be done aseptically following a clear and technical scheme but in this case it cannot be done and the reason is simple: you spoke directly with us listeners and it is right that we respond to you with maximum transparency simply by thanking you.
VOTE: ★★★★★★★★9
Best Song: Like a Child, Ioeio, Nina Sings, Fragile Package
Least successful song: none
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
