Sanremo 2025, Noemi: “Califano was a rapper Ante Litteram”

Guest of Rockol Lounge, at the headquarters of the Tenco club, Noemi tells about his return to the race in Sanremo with “If you fall in love with”. The chat also offers an opportunity to be told by the artist the choice of the cover of “everything else is boredom” by Franco Califano with Tony Effe.

Rockol: How did you choose to return to Sanremo?
Noemi: Was born from the song: “If you fall in love with you” is a truly emotional and exciting song. It is a song that has been written about me, by incredible authors. And the stage of the Festival, if the songs are big, enhances them. Because it is a story that, beyond music, beyond words, is a story of images. And the story in images can give us the opportunity or to be crushed, because suddenly if the piece is not strong enough we become small on the stage, or instead of being enhanced. I had the impression that this song could be truly exalted by the stage.

Rockol: You worked on “If you fall in love with” with Mahmood, Blanco and Michelangelo
A creepy trio: they have very distinct personalities, even with an imaginary beautiful on fire and also with a beautiful way of writing on fire.

But they, including me in this quartet, wanted to give voice to my personality and started from my way of singing and also from the topics we talked about. This makes everything deeper. But also in singing things, it is a job that only the very good authors do. If I have to think, in my life I have always met people who have given me the opportunity to be a bit of this dress, who is the song, who have always made me a little tailor -made. And the best of all I think it was Vasco Rossi with Gaetano Curreri: incredible. That song, “empty to lose”, was not a song that Vasco had in the drawer, but it is a song that Vasco slowly wrote with Gaetano starting from the way I have to divide the words, which they had really liked, and So in my opinion it is a value that has come to this thing here.

Rockol: What work does the interpreter do on a song written by such important authors?
Noemi: It is an important job because a song can be perfect on paper. It is like a kind of puppet, beautiful. In giving life to this character, you must be credible, true, feel what you say, do a job also on the chiseled melody, on what are also the melodic things that give you a certain type of feeling, which then moves to others. It is important. Those who sing do a job that makes everything alive. You need to give energy and the texts must be made alive. Many texts are like films, if they are well written. They are like a succession of images. These are all things that you have to know, in my opinion, tell.

Rockol: Do you ever get used to the Sanremo stage?
Noemi: No, you never get used to the Sanremo stage, especially the first evening. Because the first evening we must sing a song, with the same intensity and strength of the song as it is registered. On radio or platforms one feels the piece as it is, it is a recording. Having to make it live charges you with a responsibility, a concentration, which I always have stomach pain on the first evening. Because one also feels the responsibility to tell a story with great adherence and with great strength, and you only have three minutes.

Rockol: There are many ballads, this ANN: did you get an idea about why there is this return of a song form that in other years seemed a little put aside?
Noemi: As Giambattista Vico said, there are perhaps historical appeals. After the whole Covid period, in my opinion, Italy wanted to have fun. Those who listened to music wanted to completely detach.
Exciting it means to think, get in touch with the even more unconscious part of himself. In my opinion, for what we spent, many people didn’t have so much desire to do this. And I can tell the truth, I also personally tried this feeling. Now, however, perhaps people feel ready to return in contact with their emotions again and want to look inside.
And then at the Festival there are some very different realities of realities. There is a lot of feeling, but there are many songs that speak of other issues, such as the theme of the disease.

Rockol: Speaking of the evening of the covers, you are one of the artists who chose to duet with another artist in the race. How was the collaboration with Tony Effe on a gigantic song like “everything else is boredom” by Franco Califano?
Noemi: The fact of collaborating with Tony Effe was born from the fact that we are both super fans of Califano.

And we found ourselves because we both wanted to do “everything else is boredom”. And then I like that we represent two ways of making different music, two different languages. I am more pop, more blue. On the other hand, he represents all a type of music that is linked to hip hop culture, rap, trap: a type of music that represent a language to which we need to understand the code.
Sometimes monsters are created that in reality are not as monsters as they may seem: I liked the idea that the Sanremo stage told this encounter: I am always for dialogue, as a woman and as a musician.
Then Califano is the perfect synthesis between the two of us, because he told Rome. For me, in some ways, it was also a rapper Ante Litteram, because his own are very adherent texts to the reality he has always told. Rome is a somewhat complex city to live because everything is complicated, beautiful but very large, very busy. And we Romans are used to facing these difficulties always a little with a smile, with the joke. So this thing unites me and Tony too.

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