Francesca Michielin: “Taylor Swift for me is a reference”

Francesca Michielin returns to Sanremo in Taylor Swift mode: she herself define as “mud in paradise” as a revenge song, a genre that the American singer -songwriter has frequented and made popular. “There is no longer the ceiling/who knows who you will make a child/if you change address/if there is a mud in paradise”sings in the ballad – with a tone very different from “no degree of separation”, which in 2016 had earned her second place – in 2021 she had been competing with Fedez, another second place.

Era and contrasts

“It is a ballad of contrasts: it is written with this canonical form, a little at the Taylor Swift, which for me is one referencehowever, the text is not a text from Ballad Sanremo. This is my most physical song, the most difficult to sing technically. After everything that happened to me in the last year and a half, after the important intervention I did, I had a truly tiring recovery period in which I had to work mentally to elaborate this trauma and on a body that I didn’t feel More mine. I kept asking myself when I would come back as before. Now, also thanks to this song, I feel not like before, but better than before “.
Francesca Michielin tells that Mud in paradise It is the only song that would bring to the Festival, because it is the song that unlocked it: “One day, talking to Davide Simonetta, I told him that I wanted to write a tear -off ballad, and Mud in paradise He came out like a river. If I wrote such a physical ballad, that it requires this commitment to be sung, it is because it is a rebirth “.

If we continue to use Taylor Swift as a metaphor, what is Francesca Michielin’s era now? “My fans ask me, who are also his fans … this was written day by day. But it is certainly a moment of rebirth and integration with myself. I am always perfectionist, this time I would like to give up a little control and embrace this imperfection which is mud in paradise “.
This is however a period of transition between different eras for the singer: tomorrow, January 31, “Love exists 2025” comes out Reloadedsong published 10 years ago in the second studio album “Di20” and produced together with Okgiorgio.

“And then I will turn thirty years ten days after the Festival final. This year we will do something special to celebrate all together. ” Michielin says that he is also working on a new album, he hopes to end soon.

The cover

On Friday of the Festival, Francesca Michielin will bring “the new Broadway star”, paired with Rkomi. They are among the few artists in the race to have exploited the possibility of singing together during the evening of the covers: “It has been since I met Mirko at X Factor that we dream of working together, it has always been a casino crossing us. At a certain point I told him: my darling, Carlo put this beautiful rule, I want to honor it, go to you? Cremonini is one of the most important and particular living songwriters we have in the Italian panorama. This year, then, 30 years since Ginger Rogers’ death, which has always been an incredible icon for me. I was super fans of the Tip-Tap as a child, I had my mother forced me to make a typical dancer dress. We will also celebrate Ginger Rogers from the point of view of the look, “he says.

The authors

“Mud in Paradise” was written with Davide Simonetta, who signs 5 songs in the race and is in the group of authors present in 2/3 of this year’s songs. “I have worked with many of these authors: Federica Abbate and Petrella, but also with authors such as Calcutta and Tommaso Paradiso, who at the time did not write for others. I write a lot and I am also quite painstaking, I go to the studio, I bring my idea and ask: Can you help me develop it? Each song has something to say, it is also a magical process. “
“Simonetta”, concludes Michielin, “sometimes it only produces the songs: in this case it was like an older brother for me.

I think there are many good authors, but in my case it was all an alignment of planets. I have never been an artist who says.I have to go to Sanremo, I go to the author who will surely give me the piece. I respect those who do it, but I am too much Control Freak… “.