Marco Mengoni: “reconstructed on the rubble. Now let’s start again”
“All this show talks about a path: of my fragility, of personal reconstruction, of a company that tries to get back together after having crumbled “, Marco Mengoni thus tells his tour in this year’s stadiums. After Lignano Sabbiadoro’s zero date, the singer -songwriter gave the Officially away from the tour from Naplesa Diego Armando Maradona Sould Out stadium, which becomes the scene of a complex pop work, stratified, emotionally sincere.
The Neapolitan date of “Marco in the 2025 stadiums” is also the point of arrival and restart of an artistic and human path that has crossed collapses, doubts, rebirths. “We have always taken small steps“, The artist says:” From clubs to arenas, from Italian to European stadiums. And today we are here: twelve stadiums, a tour that is no longer just a concert, but a story “.
Mengoni does not only speak of music, but also of choices, method and time: “There are those who go to the stadiums on the second album, I took thirteen years. I wanted to get there ready “, underlines the voice of” warrior “:” Not for ambition, but out of respect: towards myself and towards those who come to see me. I didn’t want to test myself before I was able to hold the weight of all this “.
The respect of which Marco Mengoni speaks is found in every detail of the show. Despite the continuous changes of dress – all made to measure, selected between historic brands and young designers – the rhythm never breaks. Mengoni, however, does not just want to amaze. Wants to involve, bring something deeper into something. “I lived a very difficult year”, confesses the artist, who on September 22 cried the disappearance of his mother Nadia: “I lost the most important thing about my life. And when you lose so much, you stop being afraid. What I carry on stage is also this: an invitation to freedom. To live without fear of judgment “.
The show, inspired by the structure of the Greek tragedyis divided into six chapters. Marco Mengoni goes beyond aesthetics: each section is a stage of a path of emotional and collective awareness. “My monologue tells that: we went up to the top of the mountain, then we collapsed. Now we walk over the rubble. The reconstruction is slow, but possible. We are glass buildings, fragile, but capable of reflecting the light”, says the songwriter. The most intense part comes right there, in the heart of the concert, when the music interrupts for a moment of naked word, sincere: “I thought fear was the worst feeling. I discovered nostalgic for that feeling. The black hole of the loss remains, but now I put some lights around us“, says Mengoni. The heart of the show, on the other hand, is a political and existential manifesto. When he raises the flag of Palestine, the public explodes. Marco does not pull back: “It is not a provocation: it is a pain. A symbol of fragility, of destroyed cities, of humanity that screams. And no, I don’t care if someone has to complain”, he declares. Then he looks in the eyes the crowd and shoots without a filter: “The assholes who command the world are making disasters”. Naples applauds, screams, cries. Maradona becomes a single body, a single voice. Here the Greek tragedy becomes politics.
There is also a reflection on the “Gate Corsetto” – as someone ironically renamed the criticisms received for their looks of look. In this regard, Mengoni is directed: “I put on what makes me feel good. Point. If Damiano does it, it’s cool, if I do it, right? Maybe because I am more cool than Damiano. And you will see when I put the bra into me. “Then it gets more serious:”My words will not stop the violence of the judgment. But if I can make even a little people feel free with this concert, then it was worth it. “
To the most awaited question – The new album? – Mengoni replies calmly and sincerity: “I took a break. Not out of laziness, but because this world pushes you to run, to do without understanding. And I wanted to understand. I wanted to bring something true on tour, not a promo in playback. The music will return, soon. But in the meantime, this is already a declaration of intent “.
With over half a million tickets sold, twelve Italian stadiums and a European tour coming, “Marco in the 2025 stadiums” is not just a live. AND a collective ritewhere art, word, body and sound merge into a single narrative. “We survived the collapse”, repeats Mengoni, while the last song – “humans” – gets up in the stadium. “Now we can only start again. And I want to do it with you“, he concludes.
