From Guccini to Madame: the “poisoned” songs against the industry

The mother of all anti-music industry songs is “The poisoned girl” by Francesco Guccinireleased in the 1970s. It is the main reference for those who want to attack the record system, a model that over the years has been taken up, cited, even sampled, as has Fabri Fibra in the first song of his latest album “While Los Angeles burns”. Today, we see more and more “poisoned” pieces: they are multiplying like cries of pain or screams of rebellion. It is a sign of growing intolerance towards certain industrial dynamics. Madame in “Never Again” he speaks of “money slaves” capable of buying the public and defines the industry as “the horror factory”. Nayt, in “Writing”lists with brutal clarity the whole circus: fans, managers, haters, sellouts, children of art, trying to find a way to preserve the purity of art among this rubble. Gemitaiz in “Flowman” shoots against the majors, the trends followed, the puppets without a pen.

Psalm, who recently re-released “Hellvisback”which is linked to the latest project “Ranch”, seems to have foreseen everything with the irreverent figure of Mr Thunder, the record producer who talks about songs like test tubes in the laboratory. And then there is the different gaze of Giorgia and Tiziano Ferro in “Superstar“: the two talk about what comes next, when the “superstar” slowly wears away under the applause, with people who seem to rejoice in the face of the horror of the assembly line. But all these songs are united not only by criticism of the industry, but also by criticism of themselves. Everyone is aware of being part of it, some more and some less. And perhaps the first real act of rupture is precisely this: recognizing and singing that ruthless gear, trying not to turn to its rhythm.