Mietta And Syria they were guests together of SPOT – The Podcastthe program that Michele Monina And Massimiliano Longo they record live at the Spot Music Fest in Bareggio, in front of the audience of the young artists of the festival. Two voices that together Sanremo they made twelve of them, who received songs from the most important authors in Italy and who, after their success in melody, chose to change their skin. With them, in Syria's arms, also the dachshund Adamo.
“In Sanremo they massacred my look”
The episode opens with the hardest memory of Miettathat of his firsts Sanremo. Don't dress like that, don't wear a miniskirt, don't wear makeup, don't do your hair: you had to look like the good girl of the house. She was desperate, she says, because she wanted to dance, sing, do pirouettes, and it was a far cry from the reassuring figure they imposed on her. The point, he specifies, was about the look, not the songs, which he has always loved.
Syria completes the picture of the same period, the one in which women in music had to be all precision. In 1996, she was the first woman to go on stage at the Festival with a tattoo on display.
Two voices that have changed their skin
The thread that holds the two artists together is the choice not to capitalize on the first success, but to transform. Mietta passes from melody to soul, with a change that he defines as extreme, from Go away love to the album Daniela is Happyawarded in London for the video clip but harshly received by critics. It wasn't betrayal, she explains, but the need to change everything around her, because she liked to experiment.
Syria recounts his journey towards electronic and indie, with the idea that music should hold together a thousand genres and a thousand sensations, from jazz to funky, to blues, despite being born in the most total melody. A choice that wasn't understood at first, but which in live performances has built her an audience that knows they can find anything.
The female revolutions, from Bertè to Marcella Bella
Longo broadens the discussion to small and large female revolutions in Italian music, from the 1980s onwards, when artists like Loredana Bertè And Marcella Pretty they showed the body and played with the topics. Then, the two guests explain, a decade arrived, from the mid-eighties to the mid-nineties, in which women had to fall into a more composed and reassuring model.
Today's compulsiveness and multifeaturing
On the present, Mietta he admits that he struggles with the compulsiveness of the songs that come out every two or three days, because it takes away the time to enjoy a single and build the story of an album. He notes that the industry works like this today, but says he prefers another form of storytelling, more structured and less stressful.
The discussion comes to today's multifeaturing and duets, which according to the two artists have lost the surprise of the past, when a duet was an event and was born from a real affinity between the artists.
Cocciante, Mango and the collaborations for the song
Retracing the true collaborations, those born for the good of the song, Mietta remember the duet with Riccardo Coccianteand the project with Mango. Those were different times and situations, he says, but he is not of the opinion that something equally interesting can no longer be done today.
Milan where I got lost
One of the best moments is the memory of when Monina rediscovered Milan where I got losta piece by Mietta that he considers beautiful and which, if it had been released today with a trendy name, would have been a huge success. Hence the reasoning that those who work in music should do so with loyalty towards the music itself, putting the song before those who sing it.
Fantasticallylove, the Sanremo faced in PREGNANT OF ALICE
In the finale, Syria talks about the Sanremo of Fantasticallylovewhich she would gladly do again but which at the time she lived in apnea: she was pregnant with Alice and couldn't say it, while she sang a song about the disappearance of a person. She also remembers the criticism for the outfit, considered daring, when no one knew she was pregnant.
The anecdote closes FestivalBar in Taormina, faced in the seventh month: during the performance, with her belly exposed, she had contractions and had to leave the stage. The next day the doctor ordered her to rest for a month.
The episode is also available on Spotifyalong with all the other episodes of SPOT – The Podcast.
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