Dear Berlusconi: thirty years of songs about and against Silvio

From Cristiano Malgioglio looking for a little push to become a star to Fedez who sings about “honorary minister sluts” passing through Carmen Consoli’s eighty-year-old billionaire who “offers street bitches an opportunity for a more comfortable life” and the ” you will curse Fininvest” by CSI, thirty years of songs about and above all against Berlusconi and Berlusconi.

“She powerful, I nothing, hero of mamma mia only”, sings Cristiano Malgioglio. She wants to become a star and the solution is very Italian: appeal to Berlusca. “Do not trash this letter of mine, doctor.” But also: “And to think how many women pass up their skirts”. It is the remake of another song by Malgioglio, Dear director of 1981.

The CSI pissed off live in 1994. The live piece is taken from the second volume of the collection We won’t be there released in 2001 and resumed Strongman against everyone of the CCCP of 1990, therefore before Berlusconi’s descent into the field. At the time it was “You will choke among the stylists, you will curse among the progressives, you will curse Fininvest, you will curse credit cards”. In the CSI version, the message is updated: “You will curse Fininvest, corporate state form, virtual policy”.

A song first released in cassette tape Come on Italy from the satirical magazine Heart: “But how did that knight manage to remain spotless after years of meat and pie with the mafio-socialists and the imbecile piduist moles”. In the same box, Desire for snake by Rocco Tank with Cristina Da Vena.

The myth of Silvio who made himself and his biography in music, from the beginning to the presidency of the council passing through P2, Craxi, Mangano. “And now that I am the master of this nation and I command the vapor” says the protagonist “I have settled my accounts and there is a bunch of fools who still believe me if I say that I did it myself”.

“He will transform all ministries into mini-stores” sang the Banda Bassotti, the historic Roman ska punk band, reproaching the Knight’s promises and attitudes with a mixture of anger and irony. Shouting “No parasan!”, the band opposes the “thief who never hides” who “is not a politician but a merchant” terrorized by the Communists. The wish? “No more having to pray for a house, no more having to suffer”.

The relationship between Venditti and Berlusconi has always been a quarrel with exchanges of jokes and puns from a distance. Neither The double the Roman singer-songwriter imagines a “leftist and Interist” Berlusconi, everything that our dear B would never have dreamed of being.

For the Modena City Rambers The President he is a worker, a notary, a teacher, a singer, a coach, a player. And also ambassador, emperor, oil tanker, adviser, pro-American soldier, pacifist and – above all – communist. It is precisely the Berlusconi Transformer imagined by The eighth dwarfsatire of that “multifaceted genius” (cited by the TG5 of these hours) who loved to describe himself as a handyman fantasist.

Ok, it’s not a portrait of Berlusconi, but a piece on the contrast between spirit and matter set in the bunga bunga era. In short, a bit on Berlusconi is: “One says what’s wrong with organizing private parties with beautiful girls to cheer up chief executives and state servants? We didn’t understand each other and why on earth should we pay even the extras to fools?”. And again: “What can the laws where only money reigns? Justice is nothing but a public commodity. What would charlatans and swindlers live on if they didn’t have hard cash to throw as hooks among the people?

Under the pseudonym of Team Picci hides “a small group of people” led by Daniele Silvestri. There is little (if not non-existent) information on the internet, but there is still a piece – perhaps the only one of the project – released in 2009 entitled Emperor TiBERius, a direct and blunt invective in which Silvestri sings to a beatus built around a choir chanting the slogan “Berlusconi resign”. The video, on the other hand, is divided between clips from Totò’s films and a slideshow of Silvio’s famous photos. Seven years later Silvestri will hit Berlusconi again in the song What a beautiful face.

In May 2010 Karima El Mahroug known as Ruby Rubacuori is stopped by the police, in November this song comes out in the anthology Not tired at all on the interweaving of sex and power: “Looking for a caregiver, a charming eighty-year-old billionaire offers street bitches an opportunity for a more comfortable life”. In reality, Consoli explained to Republic, «I was inspired by the story of an entrepreneur who blackmailed politicians and organized “dinner and blanket”, escort, it was the Arzignano Veneto scandal. Then of course I extended the meaning, indeed it extended by itself, automatically».

Do you read individually? Here you are Legalize the Premier where instead of legalizing the Maria the Prime Minister legalizes himself, as well as buying TV and football teams. It is clear that it is Berlusconi, but he is never mentioned because the idea is that the song is about a method and not about a single person.

The Fedez of struggle a dozen years ago, with journalists servile to power. “The president goes to shit”? He becomes “Bella Silvio latin lover, troie ministri ad honorem”. And again: The president, the bribe and the insult, his defense attorney in parliament who takes double salary ”.

It must have been at least strange for Paola Turci to go from writing a song against Berlusconi to getting married to his former partner, Francesca Pascale. In fact, it was 2011 when the artist sang “you have to go away, you have to go away because the makeup melts away and the deception is revealed” or “the usual Dantesque circle of hell with the flamboyant monarch of face powder who loses his head between thighs, bracelets and bottle butts”. Turci thus explained the passage to Everyday occurrence: «The theme is universal and concerns the exercise of power, which destroys countries and peoples. He could talk about Gaddafi, about Franco. Of course, it is also aimed at Italy, but Berlusconi would not even want to name him».

There’s little to discuss: you’re not a character in Italian pop culture if Bello Figo hasn’t dedicated a song to you. Swag Berlusconi it was one of the most viral songs of the Ghanaian-born rapper thanks to the punchlines “pussy fuck with me because I look like Berlusconi” or “pussy fuck with me because I look like his cousin”. And, of course, there is also a tribute to the Knight’s style: “Silvio Berlusconi man, always with a jacket, Silvio Berlusconi man, always with a tie. Money in your pocket, pussies in mind”.