The hits of that summer we wanted could never end

Games at the Game Boy Advance in Pokémon Fire Red and exchange images and videos with your cousin on the Motorola Razr V3 with Bluetooth. From the two kicks to the ball in the courtyard and imitated the iconic exultation of Vincenzo “The airplane” Montella or the Swiss of Alberto Gilardino, among the Serie A bomber who has just ended. In the TV lounges, gossip experts only comment on the images of the wedding of Francesco Totti and Ilary Blasi, the former letter that has become, suddenly, the queen of Rome. On the radio, meanwhile, a song of Jovanotti from the pounding refrain, which you cannot avoid singing: do “So much, so much, so much, so much / so much, so much, a lot». It is the summer of 2005. You are happy. And you know.

When the rush to the catchphrase was getting up, not downward

Lorenzo Cherubini’s hit, however, is only one of the incredible songs that populate radio programming in the summer of 2005. A season, for Italian pop, unrepeatable, magical, in the name of great songs all destined to remain, to overcome the test of time and become classics. To listen to them after twenty years, comparing them to those that today occupy the leaders of the rankings, you are attacked by a sense of sadness and despair. There was a time when also in the race of the summer catchphrases there was originality and in which the race to the title of Hit of the summer was not downwards, but on the rise. A time when the potential creshes of the summer did not necessarily have to talk about cocktails or fleeting dating in the disco nor to wink at tropical or exotic rhythms. A time when the songs were not written to eight, ten, twelve, fourteen or sixteen hands, scheduled in the laboratory to be hits, and did not mimic what was the greatest overseas or overseas: perhaps it is also for this reason that they have had, and continue to have, their lives beyond that single season.

Pausini in the smell of Grammy and Elisa returning from California

Take, for example, “As if it had never been love” Of Laura Pausiniwhich shortly thereafter with the Spanish version of the album “Stay to listen”, “Escucha”, she would have succeeded in winning a Latin Grammy as “Best female pop vocal album”, before entering the legend the following year by winning the award as “Best Latin Pop Album” to the American Grammy: today it is also difficult to think about that song as a summer hit. And what about “A poem for you too” Of Elisa? In the original version of the album “Pearl Days”, the fifth of his career, recorded at the Hollywood Hanson Studios, California, together with Glen Ballard, the producer of Alanis Morissette and Anastacia, the song was titled “Life Goes On” and was sung by the Friulian songwriter in English. The Italian version was designed for the reprint of the album and Elisa dedicated it to the grandfather, who disappeared shortly before: “He has always been a message of life and this I wanted to represent”.

The consecration of Cremonini and that of Nek

Filed the Lunapops, Cesare Cremonini He had started three years earlier with his first solo album, “Bagus” and right at the gates of the summer of 2005 he had released “Maggese”: he had been to the romantic “Jam #25“, With a tribute to the great Roberto Baggio, who had retired the year before, that the Bolognese singer -songwriter had entrusted the task of driving from his second album, that of the consecration. And a consecration also reached it Nek with “Let me be“, A nice rock piece that by mounting from week to week would have managed to get rid of the fierce competition and win the edition of that year of the Festivalbar, conducted by Fabio De Luigi and Vanessa Incontrada.

The sign of that magical summer

Irene Grandi He would have stumbled in the championship of the catchphrases two years later with that “burns the city” which, who knows why, was discarded by Pippo Baudo by the Sanremo Festival: in the meantime with “Let it go“He left a sign with his personality and elegance in the rankings. About Sanremo: i Negramaro they forgot with “Summer“The non -memorable passage in the race in Sanremo, among the young people, with that” while everything flows “who after being rejected by the Festivalgiere juries had taken a revenge in the rankings: the sign of a summer that we would have liked could never end.