“The songs must be listened to how they were written”

It is certainly not the first time that “Beautiful bitch”, the song by Marco Masini he wrote with Giancarlo Bigazzi and published in 1995 as the launch single of the album “The sky of the Virgin”, is at the center of controversy and discussions.

It was so even before the song was published, when the blowing of an insider of the recording studio revealed the title. At the time Bigazzi, in an interview with Gloria Pozzi for the “Corriere della Sera”, commented: “For the lightness of someone who works with us, who listened to the auditions of the new songs in Florence and went through a local newspaper. In the same interview, Bigazzi continued: “beautiful bitch ‘is a poignant and romantic song, beautiful. Which contains nothing offensive. He tells of a she who gives the farewell to her boyfriend, and he who compares her for beauty ‘to the sun and the moon’ tries to hold her back. He was born from the personal sentimental experience of Marco and of many of his friends. The new song has nothing to do with ‘Vaffanculo’: that was an invective that Marco did to get rid of those who wanted to massacre him by accusing him of intrusive and bringing bad luck, this is simply a declaration of love. The style of Marco and mine is direct, does not use metaphors, offers a cross -section of the common language of young people. I have been doing this job for 32 years, I think I know perfectly if a word has a reason for being in a text or not. What is there to scandal? Of course, 30 years ago this song would have entitled him ‘farewell love’, but today … “. And Masini added:” The language that we are talking about we guys is this. I hope you don’t stop in two words, but you listen to you Well the song, all in full, before judging seriously “.

“Beautiful bitch”, which had a great success, in 2019 was Masini’s first single to be certified gold disc from Fimi for the sales counted since 2010.

Of the song we returned to a Sanremo of a few years ago, in 2020, when about Junior Calyly’s participation at the Festival someone compared the text of his “witch” precisely to that of “beautiful bitch” (and on that occasion I wrote, very annoyed, “Do not compare shit and chocolate. expressiveness.

“Beautiful bitch” returns topical following Fedez’s decision to propose the song paired with Marco Masini on the evening of the covers, next Friday in Sanremo. In addition to the gossip relating to the recipient of the song, the discussion has left on some phrases of the text of Bigazzi; So much so that Carlo Conti, artistic director of the Festival, master in “Troncare e Sopire” of Manzonian memory, wanted to let it know, interviewed by Bruno Vespa, that what we will listen to at the Festival will be “a ‘new’ version of the song ‘Beautiful bitch’ . A 2.0 version adapted to the times. A song that must be listened to “.

Obviously we are on the borders of the ridicule, and I will laugh to think how Giancarlo Bigazzi would have reacted to this decision – probably by staring, and probably withdrawing the signature from the song, assuming that it was possible. Of course it would be fantastic if Marco Masini, also as a tribute to Giancarlo Bigazzi, mocked this hypocritical injunction of politically correct and followed the example of Gianni Morandi. That in 1966 (we told the story in detail here) singing live at the Rose Festival “There was a boy who like me loved the Beatles and Rolling Stones” he finished at first to have sold the Rai censorship and sang “Ta-ta-ta-ta” in place Of “Vietnam” and “Vietcong”, but then, in a jolt of pride, to the second verse he sang “in his country he will not return, now he died in Vietnam”.

While waiting to see what Masini will do (personally cheering for the “Morandi solution”) we collected the thought of Giovanni Bigazzi, son of Giancarlo, about the text of “beautiful bitch”. You can find it below.

Giancarlo, with his sensitivity and intuition in finding impact words (one of his prerogatives), managed to represent among the notes, the sense of torment, the deception, the humiliation of a man torn to the betrayal for the betrayal of the Loved woman.
The union with Masini gave a considerable thickness to this “story”, especially with his intense interpretation.
The songs, in addition to the effect of the emotion that can arrive, must be read and listened to what they say, for how they were written.

In the poetics of the piece the combination of words Pretty And bitch it’s like a scratch to the soul, in a vortex of contrasting sensations such as anger, love, tenderness, grudge for betrayal, which are experienced in the chiaroscuro of a relationship, even when feelings are polluted by material temptations, which can be experienced as a sense of revenge .

A non -passive torment, where beyond the anger of the injured protagonist, the desire to react, not to bend to disappointment and go further.
The devotion and creative impetus of Giancarlo had left their mark here too.
From some words of the text you perceive an alternation between sweet memories and the bitterness of the present: “Those attacks suddenly that we had of sex and tenderness”, “beautiful bitch, which you show up around for hotels and restaurants With the ass on the Ferrari of that arrogant being, don’t you know that the billionaires even to their feelings give a price, the contempt? “.

Even in this song, that pinch of irony typical of Giancarlo’s style, as if to give an escape to the discouragement, emerges in this song:

“But if God made you beautiful more than the sun and the moon, you get out of those pants I am satisfied like a dogs of the leftovers” …
A song even more current than ever on what can happen in the infinite dynamics of sentimental relationships.