Enrico Ruggeri: “I dream of a future in which no one goes to Tony Effe”

In recent weeks, opinions of artists and professionals on Tony Effe have continually emerged. Following the decision of the Municipality of Rome to invite and then cancel the rapper’s participation in the New Year’s Eve concert, who then decided to organize a show specifically for New Year’s Eve, the occasions and interviews in which he is asked to someone to expose themselves on the “Tony Effe case”.

In a new interview conducted by Andrea Silenzi for “Repubblica”, it was Enrico Ruggeri who expressed himself on the matter, sharing a reflection on the musical listening of the younger generations. The chat, as well as about the new album of unreleased songs “La caverna di Platone”, due out next January 17th, and about the television program “Gli occhi del musica”, offered the Milanese singer-songwriter the opportunity to talk about young people who according to him “know few masterpieces of our song”. “Some young people listen to total lexical miseries, others also go to our concerts. Maybe there are fewer of them, but they exist”, underlined Ruggeri in the interview reported by “Messaggero”. Asked to share his thoughts on Tony Effe, the former Decibel added:

“I dream of a future in which no one goes to see Tony Effe. There is great intellectual and lexical poverty around. However, I see that there is an enormous demand for certain music. There is no such thing as censorship, but we should act with intellectual honesty: Povia should also be defended. Then there’s the naivety of the organizers: first you call an artist and then you send him home. Of course it’s going to be a mess.”

He added: “The two things overlap: the narrator claims to add poetry to what he tells. I am a witness to an era, but without getting too much into it. I always think about how long a song will last: the narrator doesn’t have to tell just the news. It’s a bit the limit of rappers…”.

During the interview, explaining the title of the new album, “Plato’s cave”, Ruggeri narrated: “Plato imagined people living in a cave and convinced himself that that was reality. Once they went out, they preferred to go back in because They didn’t like what they found outside.”

Speaking of his program “The eyes of the musician” (until 4 February on Rai 2 in the late evening), the singer-songwriter underlined: “There is more live music here than in many concerts”. Explaining the choice of him and Flora Canto to be supported by a band that plays live, Ruggeri added: “Thethe choice was to play totally live, whoever comes as a guest knows this. It seems like a revolution, it should be normal.”