Olly didn’t want to go to Sanremo. Then came a song
Everything stems from a song, one who convinces the artist to try to go to the Festival, even if he didn’t want to go there.
It is a recurring story, and it is that of Olly: that in the past he had said that he would not want to return to Sanremo, where he has already been in 2022, passing by young people. Then came “Balorda Nostalgia”, written with his producer Jvli and with Pierfrancesco Pasini. “With the people I work with, and with whom I always confront, we looked at each other in the face. We all agreed in not going: there was no new music ready, my record has just come out and it was going well, the concerts already planned and the tickets already sold. But the song, in our opinion, deserved to be presented in a place like Sanremo, on a stage like that of Ariston “.
It was not written specifically for the Festival, it says: “I never write by commission. Like my records, I don’t choose first, but I write it and then I decide what it’s called. I often write, but the album had already come out, and I didn’t want to keep it for so much. “
Among the favorites?
A song dedicated to nostalgia, sung by a 23 -year -old boy? “I am a normal boy, outside the canons of what perhaps is cool today,” he explains. “I am a person who looks for the balance, the less finds him: Strong journey, as my friends say. It is my way of telling me, also to stay with the feet on the ground, in general, and still feel that I always have something to learn from others. This is a song at times spoken more than sung: I don’t go to make a technical race, not even this year, there are much better singers than me. But you will see me sing with the veins in sight on the neck, with my physicality, the red face and the white hands, “he explains.
There will also be singers technically better than him, but Olly is given among the favorites of this edition. He minimizes: “I am happy that the song liked to those who have already heard it. But this is not really a thought. Obviously I read the odds, I am asked, I am told, I see the artists who talk about me. But I prefer the artists who talk to me, let’s say. “
The return of pop?
But it must be said that Olly arrives at this Sanremo strong of the success of a song like “For two like us”, in a duet with Angelina Mango – winner of the 2024 edition – and with several weeks at the top of the Fimi ranking. One of the cases that made “Pop return” speak, after years of domination of rap and trap in the rankings: “I consider the trap much more pop than what we call pop. Having said that, it is certainly a little returned, but I am perhaps happy that, when I speak, I see almost amazement in seeing a 23 -year -old boy who writes the songs and if he sings them. For me it has always been the only important thing, even more than the voice “.
The cover
On Friday evening, Olly will bring De André’s “Il Pescatore”, together with Goran Bregovic: “It is a song to which I am very fond of Genoese. De André you breathe everywhere, reads in the walls of the streets, on the shutters of the shops … it was a choice that came enough. After taking her on tour for two years, I can feel more calm in doing it, especially flanked by a teacher like Bregovic and all his gang, which will bring a folk arrangement, which is inspired by that of the PFM. I am trying not to think about possible comments: for better or for worse I think it can be an performance that will be divisive. It will be a little a moment concert style of May 1st, because we also started from that mood there, to the “Bella Ciao”.
