Frankly comes back with new music, comes out My grandparents' house For Carousel Records.
There is always a place from which we start again.
For Frankly, this time, it's not a city, not BerlinNot Milanbut his grandparents' house.
frankly my grandparents' house – meaning
Another piece that helps to imagine a larger project, perhaps an entire album that confirms an increasingly clear sensation: Frankly she is a mature singer-songwriter, with a precise and recognizable style.
Here there is no need for superstructures or programmatic declarations: a guitar, a memory and a question that remains suspended are enough.
The song starts from a simple image: a house, white walls but it doesn't stop at nostalgia. My grandparents' house is not a childhood refuge, it is a place for adults, a space to return to to question what happiness, belonging, distance really means.
If only we were able to keep happiness on our legs
It's a phrase that strikes you immediately, one of those images that seem light but instead remain. For a moment it recalls certain melancholies of Lucio Battisti of the 70s, that ability to talk about feelings without explaining them completely. Yet, the sound of Frankly it remains profoundly 80s vintage, even in 2026: a vintage that doesn't feel like revival, but about emotional continuity.
Sonically, the song marks a return to the origins. Guitar and voice, an improvised arpeggio on a Telecaster that comes directly from the days of Berlin busking. A choice that is not only musical, but narrative: returning to the starting point to say something different. The result is an intimate, singer-songwriter piece that puts family dualism at the center.
Applause also goes to the artistic production of Goedi (Diego Montinaro)which accompanies the song with great measure and intelligence. A production that does not try to impose itself, but which enhances the identity of the singer-songwriter, rendering My grandparents' house a coherent, recognizable and deeply centered piece.
Seeing each other as different but with the same features / keeping distant but with reflected gestures
Here lies the heart of the song. Not an idealized celebration of the family, but a lucid and affectionate look at the same time. Frankly tells of a family made of thin threads: bonds that hold even when they loosen, affections that cannot always stay close without getting hurt.
In a time when the family is often described as sacred and untouchable, My grandparents' house it opens a different space: that of choice, even when it means taking distance to continue loving yourself.
The song comes later Zagara And Telephone Tango and continues the journey, shifting the gaze from external places to the emotional architecture of affections. It's a song that doesn't ask to be understood immediately, but inhabited, letting each listen add a detail. The singer-songwriter is giving us sound slides of her inner world in which each of us can find space.
My grandparents' house is not just a memory: it is an open question about how to remain a family, even when you choose to be elsewhere
frankly my grandparents' house text
My grandparents' house
How big it seemed
Lying under the sun
The costumes and the palm trees
My grandparents' house
With white walls
They ring the intercom
And my sister coming down
If only we were capable
To keep happiness on your legs
If only we were better friends
To keep everything together for what's to come
What if we were on the verge
To understand that it's not that strange
Loving each other so much
But do it from afar
Seeing yourself different
But with the same features
Keep your distance
But with reflex gestures
My grandparents' house
It's my refuge growing up
Grandpa left with hat in hand
And he left me the papers
My grandparents' house
With my nephew crying
Voices from the megaphone
And the peach sellers
If only we were capable
To keep happiness on your legs
If only we were better friends
To keep everything together for what's to come
What if we were on the verge
If we were on point
If we were on point
If we were on point
If we were on point
If we were on point
If we were on point
If we were on point
Seeing yourself different
But with the same features
Keep your distance
But with reflex gestures
Seeing yourself different
But with the same features
Keep your distance
But with reflex gestures
Seeing yourself different
But with the same features
Keep your distance
But with reflex gestures
frankly live in spring
Three dates that mark a new step in the growth of the project also on stage, in an increasingly defined and aware phase.
19 May – Locomotiv Club, Bologna
20 May – Largo Venue, Rome
22 May – Hiroshima Mon Amour, Turin
Photo by Cosimo Buccolieri
