Jovanotti: “Today studio records are plastic and fake”
For our in-depth analysis of live albums, we heard from Jovanotti, who a few weeks ago released “Jova Live Love”, a live album that portrays his successful tour in the arenas. A good part of the reflection arose precisely from the question we asked ourselves while listening to him, that is, what are live records used for today.
When asked to explain the reason for this publication and the fortune of a format that seemed obsolete but seems reborn and frequented by many colleagues, Lorenzo broadened his gaze and broadened the discussion. He reflected on how music is made and consumed today, in particular citing “the excessive power of producers”, who work in perfect but cold studios and without physical instruments. With the result that studio records are, according to Lorenzo, “plastic, fake, made with computers, often made with software and artificial intelligence”
“This year I decided to take a super band on the road, a great live band without a sequence, without the computers on stage, without the backing tracks, and we had a blast”, he explained to us and when I started listening to the recordings I thought: how beautiful is this stuff, I like it, it’s really alive, that is, it’s live because it’s all alive”, he explains Jovanotti on the publication of “Jova live love”. Here’s what he told us.
“Since records have been so fragmented into a thousand streams, into a thousand different possibilities of being listened to, everything has changed. As for my work, basically little has changed, in the sense that I write songs, make records and take them out live.
studio records are plastic, fake records, made with computers, often made with software and artificial intelligence. I recently visited recording studios of the new school of Italian producers: they are white, they are cold, LED lights, there isn’t a guitar, there isn’t an instrument. It’s not that I’m complaining except for the fact that I liked the studios instead that they had a smell, that they had the signs of the passage of other musicians. This sort of the excessive power of the producers generates an inverse reaction, which is that of the enjoyment of live music, therefore the live album differs greatly from the dead album, from the album made in the studio
Jovanotti will soon appear in Cremonini’s live album, out in November, and in Gigi D’Alessio’s new single, out tomorrow, October 31st. Last night he went on stage with Negramaro and on social media he hinted at an announcement soon for a return to the stage in summer 2026.
The complete in-depth analysis on the long life of live albums is here
