Blanco, Geolier and Meduza: now Italy conquers Fifa
Blanco, Geolier and Meduza: for the world music championship, Italy is fielding three of its heavyweights. The voice of “Mi fai impazzire”, the Neapolitan rapper and the Milanese trio that for years has made discos all over the world dance with their hits are among the protagonists of the EA Sports FC25 Official Soundtrackthe old Fifa, the most famous of the football video games, available from September 27th for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, X/S, Microsoft Windows and Nintendo Switch They are not the first Italians to end up in the videogame soundtrack: before them, in recent years, those who have ideally waved the tricolor flag include – among others – The Bloody Beetroots, Fabri Fibra, Subsonica, Ghali, Benny Benassi, thasupreme and Ariete.
But .it had never happened before that three Italian artists were present in the same year in the video game. Hits from Blanco, Geolier and Meduza will alternate in the EA Sports FC25 playlist with those from global music superstars such as Coldplay, Billie Eilish, Charli XCX, J Balvin, Sia.
The complete list of artists who will be featured in the video game’s soundtrack was revealed today by Electronic Arts, the American company that historically develops Fifa. Blanco will be present as an ambassador for Romahis favourite team, which after a long partnership with Konami, by virtue of which the Japanese company had the exclusive right to represent the club’s logo, shirts and real players on eFootball (the “rival” videogame to the one developed by EA), returns to Fifa this year. The soundtrack will feature his “Again, again, again”: “For Roma I would do anything, again, again and again – says the singer-songwriter from Calvagese della Riviera in a video shared on social media – being part of the soundtrack of FC25 is incredible for me because I have played it since I was little: it’s an achievement.
I usually play at night, at 4 or 5, when I come back from the evenings. The beautiful thing about supporting Roma is being part of a family: it’s an emotion that overwhelms you, going to the stadium, singing, everything. The craziest thing I did for Roma was leaving for Tirana with my dad (for the victory of the Conference League in 2022, ed.). We left during the day and came back the following night”.
Geolier will represent his Naples with “I p’ me, tu p’ te”the catchphrase of the last Sanremo Festival. Just like in the case of the Giallorossi club, the Azzurri are also returning to Fifa after the end of their partnership with Konami: “Being part of the FC25 soundtrack is great because you listen to yourself while you make the lineup: suddenly your piece starts. When I play, I am one of the few who chooses the piece that he wants to listen to. ‘I p’ me, tu p’ te’ represented for me and for my city a goal to reach. What we do is just a response to what Naples gives you”. jellyfish They will not be ambassadors of a particular club: the trio composed of Simone Giani, Luca De Gregorio and Mattia Vitale will be present in the videogame playlist with “Give it to me, give it to me”the song released at the beginning of the year together with the Indian singer Varun Jain.
The songs, in Fifa, are become increasingly central to the gaming experience. EA Sports began to include real soundtracks in the videogame in 1998, four years after the launch: among the first songs to be included in Fifa, that year, there was also “Song 2” of the Blur. Over the years, the Fifa soundtrack has revealed itself to be much more than the soundtrack of a video game, becoming a sort of thermometer that intercepts – and sometimes anticipates – the musical trends that circulate internationally. So much so that for years Labels are competing to ensure their artists are featured in the video game’s playlistswhich has often launched unknown artists, contributing to their consecration.
As a testament to the prestige and weight of the Fifa soundtrack, .Over the years, there have also been those who have granted exclusive tracks to Fifa: it happened, for example, in 2020, when the Royal Blood chose to publish their “Trouble’s coming” exclusively for the soundtrack of the video game. Today the song is available on Spotify 68 million total listens and is one of the most popular of the group.
Italy aside, the gaming experience will be decidedly rock’n’roll. Yes, because after having chosen “Everything in its right place” by Radiohead for the FC25 trailer, this summer, the music supervisors of the videogame have decided to focus on a massive presence of leading artists of the world rock scene: from Jack White (who has been linked to the world of football ever since, in 2006, “Seven Nation Army” by the White Stripes became the soundtrack to Italy’s triumph at the World Cup in Germany – just two days ago the rocker was caught by the cameras in the stands at Anfield Road during Liverpool-Nottingham Forest, a match surprisingly won by the club coached by Nuno Espirito Santo), DC Fountainsi Kasbah (Serge Pizzorno is a die-hard Leicester fan, but he inherited his passion for Genoa from his grandfather, who is of Ligurian origins), St. Vincent hey Twenty One Pilots.
