Vasco: “Rock is resistance against hypocrites and bigots”

A few hours before the start of Rimini’s zero date, Vasco Rossi he entrusts his songs with the task of telling the present, reiterating a vision of the world that has always run through his music. Starting from I’m going all outwhich he defines as «like the incipit of a book», the rocker from Zocca still claims today the provocative force of a song created to challenge «those plastered faces, that hypocritical and bigoted world» which, in his opinion, has not disappeared at all, on the contrary: «The hypocrites and bigots instead of disappearing they have increased. I sing it again to go against it again”, he explains.

For Vasco, music continues to be much more than just entertainment. «Power always needs people to be affected by sadness, said Spinoza. We bring joy». A joy that also becomes a form of resistance: «Music is a form of active resistance against these sociopaths who unleash wars and destruction in which only the civilian population suffers». A reasoning that extends to contemporaneity, marked, according to the Komandante, by the predominance of «law of the strongest» and by the «power of propaganda and the stupidity of the population».

Yet, Vasco does not feel the need to transform the stage into a political platform. «I write poems set to music and talk to them», he says shortly before the concert. «I don’t need to make speeches from the stage: my songs speak for themselves». It is precisely through his songs that he addresses identity and cultural themesas happens with (for what I have to do) I’m in the militarywho screams “we’re not Americans.” A song that seems surprisingly current to him today: «There was a period in which we thought we were Americans but no, they reminded us of it quite brutally. “We’re not Americans“It seems to have been written this year. Once upon a time we thought we were a bit American. But no, we’re Italian.”

So, on the eve of the Rimini show, Vasco reaffirms himself the role of his songs: provoke, make people reflect, resist and tell a collective identity without the need for proclamations. Because, as he himself claims, his best words are already inside the music.