“Not Everything Happened” is the first EP of Romeowritten between 2023 and 2024 during a period of great emotional contrasts. Immersed in his beloved Sicily, Romeo finds the lifeblood to transform the end of a project into a personal and artistic rebirth.
Six urban pop tracks dedicated to love – nocturnal, toxic, imagined, concrete – characterized by meaningful lyrics and fresh productions, which narrate an intense journey of maturation and resilience.
1. “Non Tutto è Successo” is a journey through different types of love. How does love define who we are and define you, as an artist?
Love permeates my entire story and I tell it because sometimes, in life, I have missed it. With this EP I tried to write down how this has played a fundamental role for me, how it has allowed me to feel good, even with myself. Let's face it: the most important love is and remains the love for oneself, without which we cannot love anyone.
2. You talk about many dark aspects in your songs, such as the bipolarity of toxic relationships. Do you always draw on experiences you have lived first-hand when writing?
Yes, absolutely! I have had relationships with absurd ups & downs, which made me see the dark side of love. To get out of them I have always needed to write, both the positive and negative sides…
3. The title of your EP plays with the concept of “success”. How do you personally interpret this concept, not in your career, but in your everyday actions?
I think that success is overcoming your limits and seeing yourself as different despite what happens around you. I lived years with the mania of the result until I understood that in reality the “success” I was looking for is mine, the personal one: being able to be better day by day, for myself and for those around me.
4. How does “success” relate to love?
I want to explain it with an image: have you ever lived a story that you didn't expect could be so beautiful and intense? It's nothing more than this.
5. What would you like those who decide to go through the entire EP to feel, that is, not to take one song at a time but, as was done in the past, to do a complete listen?
Yes, of course! I studied the tracklist for months just to translate a path and give precise coordinates of my world.
6. How would you define your musical vision and how did you manage to translate it into this album?
I have always written because I like to tell what I experience and how I would like to face certain things. If I had to find a word for my vision it would be “personal”, because I have never written a song with the thought of “just making it work”.
7. The EP cover, curated by Emanuele D'Amico, represents the roots emerging from the earth. It is something symbolic, obviously, as you also explain. If you had to compare your path to the growth stage of a plant, which would it be and why?
Well, having reached this point in my artistic journey, after several experiences I think I am in the “vegetative” phase, where the first flowers begin to appear and I begin to have the perception that I am growing, both musically and humanly.
8. How do you think you fit into today's music world or how would you like to be perceived?
It's hard to place myself because sometimes I don't even know what genre represents me 100%. Nowadays the musical panorama is so varied that there are no real genres anymore. I like rap and strong melodies, choruses to sing at the top of your lungs. If I really have to choose, I feel like urban pop with hip hop influences.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
