Olly: “Those who gave me ‘recommended’ pushed me to write”

“All life (always)”, released last week, is not only the expansion, with new songs, of his latest album. It is more, It is the continuation of the journey. Two years lived to the maximum, two years old who changed his existence, with the world who, to name it, has never stopped “touring”. “On this album there is all my journey, before and after the victory of Sanremo – explains Olly – there are five unpublished, but in total there are eight new songs. The real need for continuing to make this project go on was to feel alive, which does not mean risking the license because the rods smoke. It is dancing naked for the house, it is to follow the wind, it is writing ‘I love you’ on the asphalt“.

The new pieces also seem to reactions to success, or rather an attempt to remain attached to important things: in “So so”, for example, responds with a mocking smile to criticism, while “The thrill of life” feels the need to feel still “a jerk” with her friends. “Today I am a famous 24 -year -old boy. I say it with humility. And I must necessarily have precautions, but I try not to put too many brakes – he continues – I want to go to the bar, even if I know it may no longer be as before. But I must tell the truth: I am also discovering the beauty of talking to those fans who do not just ask for a photo and that’s it. In the end I am a normal person and, sometimes, I try to feel like thisthe. Neither the thrill of life ‘I say that I feel the need to feel a little jerk, because it is just like that. Especially after the victory at the Festival The normality and the search for it have played and have an important role for me“.

This summer ended up in the midst of a media bubble for having dirty The table of a restaurant During a lively dinner with his company, “I take the risk of being chatted”, cut short to those who remind him of the episodeMeanwhile, there is an artist capable of selling tens of thousands of tickets outside the reality as the two great live in September demonstrate at the Milan racecourse, gathering almost 70 thousand people. It is not over: he will return to perform live with the “all life tour 2025–2026”, his first Tour in the buildings with 20 dates sold out. “There is nothing built, making songs from ‘collective song’, which is then the heart of live, is an process. We write in the studio and we know when a piece is cantabile or not. I stopped being an artistoid and making abstruse pieces. We test the songs about our friends, who are not ‘Yes Man’ -Specific – ‘In the lungs’ it came out when I was certainly not at this record moment, indeed in some meetings, in which I was not there, it was painted as in a period of flop. Instead, now people sing it to the hippodrome. That approach paid. ‘So’ is full of words, but I think it will be sung. The mood ‘group song’ does not arise in the laboratory, My goal is not slogan to sell records, but make pieces that can get to everyone“.

Speaking of “so”: “I do not always live it like this. But I had a time when certain criticisms, messages and threats of death, they made me a little bad. In those cases go on stage and sing chasing away everything. In the piece ‘so’ I quote some of those criticisms, from ‘miraculous’ to ‘recommended’. After Sanremo I suffered that narrative: ‘He won because he was decided, he won because it was all built, strong powers wanted it.’ I spent one evening to read all these comments and I exorcised them with this song, those critical made me go to the studio load“. “All life (always)” also contains An acoustic version of “As we are there”without the verses of Angelina Mango who made it “For two like us”. “We brought it for the first time live in 2023. So, in acoustic, Juli and I was. Then he suffered several transformations, the people appreciated a lot the version with Angelina: When we sung it with the racecourse it was magical. At the same time, I wanted to offer the listener also this more primordial version, “says Olly. Then he rewinds the ribbon: “At the racecourse everything I hoped happened. In the end he also rained and it was epic. Between the public there was everything: from the girl to the grandfather, and I think it is the greatest victory. Vasco is a total inspiration for me, not only in music, but also in atmospheres. When I see very adult people to his live I think about the first time they discovered him and from that moment they have not left him anymore. I would like the same to happen with my fans: accompany them for years “.

After the winter tour Olly is preparing to make his debut on the stage of the Luigi Ferraris Stadium of Genoa For the three dates of “All at home” event: the first two lives immediately went sold out. “Everyone at home” represents a new live appointment that knows of extraordinary: Olly will in fact be on 18, 20 and 21 June 2026 in his Genoain the stadium that exceptionally reopens its doors to music 21 years after the last concert that took place in the Venue, held by Vasco Rossi. “The Genoa stadium will be a sort of mix among the racecourse and the buildingswith the audience in the parterre, but also in the stands – anticipates – I am very proud to play there, in my city. That stadium has not hosted a live for twenty years, it will be a challenge. The last to play there was Vasco. My peers have never lived a live in that location. I must also say that the word ‘stadium’ terrifies me, today it is a statement to be reached as soon as possible and I was also proposed to make bigger live. But in Genoa all this anxiety is not there, because it is home “.

In “all life (always)” there is a song that the singer -songwriter holds particularly. “‘Good move’ is the piece that I am most attached. Speaks of death, reaches the end of ‘all life’ and touches a topic, gently, which could not be excluded – he concludes – is born After the death of Juli’s fatherwho missed when the disc was released. I asked him for permission to write every word. The piece symbolizes the idea that death, in the end, could be another dimension of life. There is the sound of the accordion, which played Juli’s dad in ‘Luckily the sea’, played this time by Juli himself …“.