Lamante: “A new song”, a letter that responds to malaise

“When everything becomes a world between two, nothing can be let go without feeling like the end of everything.” Lamante, stage name of Giorgia Pietribiasi (born 1999), he published “A new song”a single that officially inaugurates the second chapter of his artistic journey, produced together with Taketo Gohara. The song was born in early 2024, shortly before the release of the debut album “In memory of” and, like the other songs that will follow, has gone through a long process of transformationbeing rewritten and developed several times over the next two years. With “In memory of”, Lamante was a finalist at Tenco 2024 license plates in the “First Work” category and received numerous awards from critics, establishing itself as one of the most relevant new voices on the Italian scene. In 2024 he also won the special “emerging artist” award at the Rockol Awards.

After the release of the album, the artist chose not to release new music, dedicating this period to writing and live activity: a tour of over 50 dates throughout Italyculminating in the last stages in which Coez chose her as the opening act for the entire arena tour. It was also recently announced among the first names of the YOU LOVE ME Festival 2026scheduled from 21 to 23 May at the Idroscalo in Milan. “‘A new song’ is a letter that responds to the malaise of the otheris the promise of a new world and a new version of us”, says Lamante, who chooses an essential language, reducing words to their simplest and most primary form. The song is configured as a song of hope: even in the face of the end of the world, the artist affirms the need to still create a meaning, a vision. A promise that has its roots in May 8, 2024, the release date of “In memory of”, accompanied by the statement declaring: “It’s time for a new generation”.

In “A new song”the word son takes on a meaning that goes beyond genealogy, becoming a metaphor for a possible future, of what we are not yet but what we could become together. The piece is dense, energetic, more urban and less folk than some works of the past. The world evoked in the line “as if the world were about to end, I will sing a new song” is a mental and relational spacebuilt over time but destined to be destroyed to make room for the new. What matters is not what is generated, but the poetic measure of what is too large to be contained by the individual. The text uses a ritual, almost biblical language, which looks to the future with a prophetic dimension: Lamante does not sing something, but sings for something to happen. Everything is biological or mortuary, there is no intermediate zone: the world is flesh that grows or is buried, and life is born only from death.