Rose Villain at Sanremo 2025: “A return? No, a revenge”
Rose Villain, deeply in love not only with music but also with cinema, she unsheathes her katana, like Uma Thurman in “Kill Bill,” and it hits: “I remember when I presented ‘Click boom!’ at Ariston, in 2024many labeled it like a Frankenstein piecethey didn’t understand it, but then it remained in the charts for an entire year and it was among the most listened to of that edition”. “Outlaw”which has a similar structure with a mix between open chorus and straight kickso will it be “the return”, a workmanlike “sequel”? Always to stay on the topic of cinematic metaphors. “Yes, but I would say more “revenge” (laughs, ed.) – continues the singer-songwriter – I know people might say ‘eh, it seems like the same formula as last year’, but in reality it’s not really like that. It is the confirmation of a style, it is a sequel to the previous piece despite having been born before. And I wrote it, every single word. Look Dua Lipawith all the necessary proportions: he often makes songs that recall previous oneshighlights his trademark. This piece it’s 100% meis the song I love most in my discography at the moment.”
Battisti and a new album
“Outlaw” is a song that it talks about desire, about a feeling so visceral and exhausting that it almost feels wrong. A fire that burns so strongly that it induces you to think and act outside the box, just to make your dreams come true. And the first audience has already been there. “The first people I played it to were my loved ones – he remembers – I tested ‘Outlaw’ on my family, which is very large, ranging from very young to older people. And this is the only song that really shocked everyone, left something behind. If it’s the right piece? I don’t know if there is a right piece for Sanremo, you know? In my opinion it is important to follow what they say the belly, the heart and the bowels. I’ve had this song in my drawer for a while, and I like it so much that I decided to present it because I want to sing it on that stage. I did it first and foremost for myself.” On the cover evening, in 2024, he was joined by Gianna Nannini, but this time there will be a new generation name, Chiello: “For me he is one of the stars of the future, we decided to do it together ‘Pink flowers, peach blossoms by Battisti because we are both great lovers of Lucio, it was a natural choice, we actually proposed it together
”, he says. Rose released the album “Radio Gotham” in 2023, “Radio Sakura” in 2024. And a third chapter, a third album is confirmed. “It will develop upwards, it is a sort of affirmation, a story of the artist I have always wanted to be,” he anticipates.
Gué and Rose’s Sanremo
It is also taken from “Radio Sakura”, his second album “Like thunder”which went platinum four times. The single achieved important goals in 2024: it was the most listened to song of the year in Italy on Apple Music and the second in Spotify’s Top Songs Italyas well as ranking fifth among the most searched songs on Shazam in Italy in 2024. And he confirmed another aspect: Gué and Rose together, as we told you in this in-depth piece, are an explosive couple. Wouldn’t it be nice to see them together on the Ariston stage one day? “He has a very particular vision of Sanremo. This year he is in the cast, but reiterates that he is a ‘guest’ of Shablo – explains Rose – I don’t like giving myself labels, but I’m certainly more pop and therefore for me Sanremo is an important stage, while for a rapper like him the issue is more delicate because the Festival has a history more linked to other worlds. If one day we were to have the right piece, why not?”. The artist, fresh from the “Radio Sakura Winter Tour 2024” which sold out all the dates, in 2025 And ready for the Milan Forum, where she will perform live for the first time on September 23rd. One last game: what if Rose Villain became artistic director of Sanremo, who would she bring to the race? He has no doubts: “Fabri Fibra, the band Yosh Whale and OkGiorgio as producer“.
