Last February 14th, on the occasion of Valentine's Day, Simone Tomassini released his new single, Love is something else (Orange Records). The song represents the second chapter of the project The detailsa work that combines music and writing in an extended, personal and coherent story.
After If I believe it, it's your fault Redirectiona song that marked the beginning of a new artistic phase, Tomassini returns with a song that reinterprets the theme of love without idealizations, moving away from the romantic idea to tell the feeling that everyday life encounters: distances, silences, habits.
Love according to Simone Tomassini: a concrete and imperfect experience
In the lyrics of the song, love is not a contract, it is not a solemn promise, it is not a rite to be celebrated. It is a concrete experience, made of memories, of objects that retain traces of time, of moments that resurface with their dust on them. It is, as the artist sings, “holding hands without the fear of being alone”.
A precise choice that of Simone Tomassiniwho prefers imperfect images to reassuring ones, avoiding the right phrase and instead opting for words that remain adherent to the reality of the couple. Rather than treating love as a theme, it treats it as a concrete issue, a condition to live and go through: it dirties it, calls it into question, leaves it incomplete.
The “Details” project: an album and a book
Love is something else is part of “IDetails”, the new recording and literary project of Simone Tomassiniwhich will see the release of an album accompanied by a book. Each song corresponds to a chapter, expanding the story beyond the musical format.
“I felt the need to give my music as much detail as possible”he declares Tomassini. “The songs are small poems, but I wanted them to become real chapters, capable of expanding the story and leading the listener into a broader story, made up of images, passages and moments that don't end in three minutes.”
The official video clip of the single, directed by the same Tomassini and made entirely in sequence, it revolves around the figure of a bride – played by the actress Valeria Spagnuolo – faced with multiple possibilities. A deliberately open image, which accompanies the meaning of the piece: love as an uncertain path, made up of attempts, falls and restarts.
