During a meeting with the press Simone Cristicchi he told his When you are smallthe song with which he will take part in the Sanremo Festival 2025 in the race between the Bigbut he also thanked Carlo Conti for having brought the songwriter back to the city of flowers.
“Mine is a color within this mosaic that Carlo Conti He wanted to create. I am happy and I thank him for reporting the songwriters to Sanremo. There are wonderful artists.
With Lucio Corsithe real novelty, e Brunori sas we feel in a sort of Indian reserve and it is a novelty to Festival. In fact, in recent years the songwriter has been considered less and we, today, on that stage we wave the flag of those who taught us to write songs “.
Just in this regard, according to some rumors, it seems that When you are small was presented, and then be discarded, also ad Amadeus.
But what really matters is that, after being closed in a drawer for five years, it can now be listened to by millions of people, who will be able to reflect in its text.
“When you are small It is a real life, lived every day. And that's why I feel naked on that stage: because I tell about something that happens to me daily“.
In fact, the song tells the fragility of a sick mother, specifically that of mom Lucianahaving returned child after being hit in 2012 by a serious cerebral hemorrhage. The doctors had not given any hope: the lady Luciana It was clinically dead, but then she woke up.
“However, it was not the same Luciana of before“, The singer -songwriter says. “Her soul is trapped in an armor that does not allow her to do much or express yourself correctly“.
“When you are small”: the dedication of Simone Cristicchi to Mamma Luciana
During the meeting with the press Simone Cristicchi He admitted that it was not easy at all to find the right words to tell such a complex and delicate theme without being excessively rhetorical or, even worse, expire in pathetic.
“This is a topic that must be dealt with with velvet gloves. It took a long time to chis these verses. It was not easy to write them for me.
With Bitter We had concentrated on the tendernesson taking care of an elderly mother who returns child. It then seemed important to me to insert that sense of impotence which is proven in the face of this transformation and, consequently, also the anger“.
And, in this regard, in the song “There is a verse who says 'there is that anger of seeing you change'. Here, I often get angry about what happened. I still struggle to accept it. “
This anger, however, Simone Cristicchi He managed to channel her, giving her a sense and sublimating it through art, the same one that saved his life:
“If I had not found the outburst of art I would have been a very violent and closed man in myself. I spent two years of my life in the room, closed to draw.
I refused any form of help and the only friends were these colorful and fun characters that I invented to keep me company.
If I hadn't found this relief valve, I would still have closed in a room. My care have been music and artwho oversaw this deep wound of mine“.