Anyone can be a “Valley girl”

But who is the “Valley girl?”is the first necessary question to understand the coordinates of the trip. “She is a girl Uncomfortable, disturbing, courageous, determined, but at times also fragile. Agitated, curious and imaginative”, Say Vale LP and Lil Jolie, who together made the album” The girls of the valley “, An energetic and feeling project, which makes you feel part of something. An album that outlines an imaginary that takes flight from the Campania province, the one in which the two grew, and drags inside A pirate community in which you can breathe a feeling of freedom. Anna’s “Baddies” are more glossy, designed and fashionable, the most ramshackle and alternative “girls of the valley”, at the Billie Eilishbut in the end they want the same thing and who knows that, in the differences, they are not already fighting together for a better future: they aspire to be queens of their own destiny. And there is another point in common: anyone can enter their circle. I have no problem saying that, playing with fantasy and with a pinch of self-irony, I felt “in feeling” both a “baddies” and “a girl from the valley”: The strength of projects like this is right there.

“We are not a sect or who knows what – the two artists and roommates smile – the valley can also be a mental place, not only physical, anyone can feel like a girl in the valley. We often associate limits and constraints with provincial realities, but they can be lived by anyone and in every place. We say it proudly to be girls from the valley, we are every day, it is part of our life. At 15 we suffered a bit like living in the province, we believe it is normal at that age. Growing up now we live the valley as a place of the heart and safe, where you know everyone and you feel at home. This is also why we wanted to shoot the video of the title track in our country “. “All to us” is a song that uses the rhetoric of “everything happens to me” and the limelight. The “girls of the valley” do not self -pity, they do not make the victims. “Feeling victims is never the solution, instead of thinking only of one’s ego, the song wants to make it clear that by feeling a sense of community, of sharing with others, which is then what is among us, things can only improve. We hear the rain on the head, but the song wants to upset the classic Fantozzi cloud, which brings the rain anywhere, and rekindle the sun”, They underline Vale LP and Lil Jolie.

In the cover the two make arm wrestling, a photo that suggests union, but also contrast. “This is an album full of colors, and yes, also of contrasts. We are like this too. We are different on a character level, musically we have our identity. The bond that we have created, in diversity, is our strength,” they continue. And this is, perhaps, the true meaning of the disc: nobody really saves itself. Especially in this era of unbridled individualism. The sound is a mix of electro-rock with a punkish attitude to the Prozac + and Sick Tamburo. “We have chosen to entrust the artistic direction of the album a Stabber Because we wanted to create something different – they admit – it is a record that cares about it, with a somewhat aggressive soul that wanted to get out of the pop fitter. It is a left to us in peace, let us do as we want. Stabber offered a direction to the project that is not that of two friends who pass the microphone, but something deep and outburst. Also because we came from a complex period for both, we needed to make something liberating. ”

At the last Sanremo Festival with “Tell me when you are ready to make love” they gave a taste of their charge. “Women who make music with cazzimma, more energetic, are there, only they are not in the spotlight – they admit – we have made a piece, ‘From 9 to 9’, where he is a male, Irbis, to make the refrain, usually the women do it. Some things must be done and told, they need lights on them. Look Lucio Corsi: he has been doing music for a lifetime and finally people have noticed, but Sanremo wanted. Elisa, Gianna Nannini, Patty Pravo, Loredana Berté and many others have broken walls, barriers. We also meet to do it. They are our lights in the storm ”.