A specter is haunting Italian music: Tony Pitony
A spectrum wanders around the Italian music: lo spectrum of Tony Pitony. For weeks he has been talking about himself and his songsfrom “Ass” to “I like black ones”, characterized by a language politically incorrect (On the contrary, very incorrect), irony And theatricality. On Spotify matters 600 thousand monthly listeners And 17 million total streamswhile on YouTube its clip they exceeded quota 9 million total views. However, we know about him little or nothing. Meanwhile, Tony Pitony it’s a stage namenaturally: Nobody he knows what his is real name.
On Spotify your songs are credited to its principals collaborators, Sam Cammarata And Simone De Simone. Class 1996origins Sicilianhe (self) defines himself as a «conceptual artist», whose creative research «it moves along a common thread that unites apparently distant influences: the visionary sensitivity of the 1960sthe sound of electronic musicthetheatrical expressiveness and theirreverence of trashuntil it converges in aaesthetics which explores the fetish and theanti-prohibitionism».
It made her angry feminists when he published “Ass“, his “hits”, 4.2 million plays on Spotify: story of a boy who is invited by the girl to join him at his house (his of herof course), but without being able to do sex because she is going through hers time of the month. “I don’t care if you don’t give it to me / I’ll destroy your ass while you sleep”, he sings in the verses of songcontained in thealbum “Tony Pitony”, released last year Apriltotally produced independent and presented live this summer with a series of concerts hosted by the main stages Italian outdoor festivals. Beyond the provocative lyricshis music is of a good artistic level: careful arrangements, pleasant sounds And well played performances. In this he partly resembles him Elio and the Tense Storieseven if with (many) less virtuosity. Listen, to believe, the same “Ass”: if it weren’t for that textit wouldn’t look out of place in the discography Of Georgie. Or theirresistible “I like black ones“, Between blues And funkywhich seems to come out of a Sugar record or from first Pino Daniele: «I like black women, I’m not racist / black is no longer a color that saddens me / I like black women, I’m not banal, no / finally I’ll be the one who gets enslaved». Little curiosity: the production Of “I like black ones” is signed by Lenny LigabueThe drummer son of Correggio rocker.
The project remember that of Freed: «There isn’t just one Tony Pitonybut a group of people around this project», he said to Fanpage. In the 2020 he introduced himself to the X Factor auditions: sang a cover of “Hallelujah” Of Leonard Cohen with bizarre warblesmanaging to convince Mika but not Emma Brown And Manuel Agnelliwho sent him home. Pitony he said thatexperience it was thought of as theatrical performancemore than as simple musical audition. Songs like “John”, “Rio de Janeiro” or “Jian zòu” they face sensitive topics And minorities with sarcasm And irony. For some, often falling into the easy provocation. For someone else, making fun of woke culture of these years. Maybe there truth it simply lies in the half.
Meanwhile it specter by Tony Pitony continue to wander around Italian music, annoying And having funconsecrating himself (Already) how little contemporary myth of ours music scene.
