Annalisa and the photo for the single: “Who says nun who says porn star”
In the image that she chose to post on social media to launch the song, Annalisa is divided in half: in one half she is dressed as a nun, complete with a veil to cover her hair; the other half is sexier. «I’m a really good girl, but then I become bad. Some say nun, some porn star. Both and neither I say, too easy like that. And I would like to be the one you like, I would like you to like me as I am, I would like. But how do you want me?”, he writes in the post. To find out what this duality has to do with the Ligurian singer-songwriter’s new single, “Summer song”, we will have to wait for this Friday, March 13, when the song will arrive on the platforms (together, perhaps, with the related video clip).
“Summer song” arrives four months after the previous “Exhibitionist” and is the first unreleased song that Annalisa publishes after the release, in October, of her latest album “Ma I am fire”: «It’s called that, but this is not a summer song», says the voice of “Mon amour”. And again: «This is the song with which I declare my love. And my anger. It’s the song with which I say enough. But then I want more. It’s the song where I’m right, but maybe I’m doing it all wrong. This is the song where I joke a little. But I’m very serious. This is the song with which I address opinions, including my own. And I compare them. And I tell you that I love you, even if we break up. Because you are in my erotic dream. But you’re a hyena. You’re a problem. And this is why a love ends.”
Annalisa is not the first pop star to play with religious imagery or Marian iconography. The last of the series was Rosalía, who on the cover of “Lux”, her latest album, released last November, wore a white veil, coherently with one of the main sources of inspiration of the album, the female mystique.
In 2019, Fka Twigs reinterpreted the figure of Mary Magdalene in her album “Magdalene”, using veils, iconic postures and medieval references in her images and performances. In the video for the single “Tropico”, in 2016, Lana Del Rey appeared as a Madonna, complete with veil and halo.
Those who believe that the pioneer of this imagery in mainstream pop is Madonna, who in 1984 recorded “Like a virgin” and in the video for “Like a prayer” in 1989, drew so much on Catholic iconography that she was harshly criticized by the Holy See, forget that in 1982 for the cover and internal images of her album “Traslocando” Loredana Bertè had herself portrayed in monastic clothes.
