With “broken heart” Tiziano Ferro frees himself of the myth of himself

At the end of the “broken heart” video clip, the single that marks his return to the scenes three years after the latest album “The world is ours”, after a change of label (from Universal to Sugar) and a management (finished the relationship with the historic manager Fabrizio Giannini now the songwriter of Latina has started working together with Paola Zukar, “The lady of the Italian rap”, already behind Fabra Fibra, Marracash, Madame), Tiziano Ferro tears the t-shirt with the writing “Legend“That he wore until then. It seems a insignificant detail, but it is not a randomness: The image takes on a strong symbolic meaning, at this stage of the life and career of the voice of “I don’t know how to explain it”. After more than twenty years of record activity, eight albums of unpublished engraved, 20 million records sold, Iron returns to get involved in what has all the air of being a new beginning. However, a beginning that takes into account what has been before.

Between R&B and Electronics

“Broken heart” marks A return of iron to the sounds and atmospheres of the beginning, between R&B, hip hop and electronicsmoving the hands back on twenty years to return to 2001 of “Relative red” or 2003 of “111”, before the most songwriting turning point of the late 2000s. It is not the first time that Iron recovers the “American” influences of the beginning: he did it already in 2016 with “The profession of life”, Before crowning with the subsequent” I accept miracles “, in 2019, the dream of a life, to be produced by Timbaland (The guru of urban music with stars and stripes of the 90s and two thousand, the architect of the sounds of the Aaliyah records, Jay-Z, Missy Elliott, those that the songwriter of Latina consumed as a boy and whose influence re-shaped in “Xono”, “XVERSO”, “Relative red”, “The things you don’t say”, “The Olympiad”). In Los Angeles, where he had moved before the release of “The job of life”, letting himself be dragged by the productions of the East Coast Iron had somehow rediscovered his musical DNA, including Beat, Soul, Electronics, Black and R&B.

A risky operation?

If it was risky at that stage of its story, return to play with the sounds of the beginning, Today that Ferro has another ten years of career on his shoulders – and life – is even more so. There to support him in the rediscovery of his “more adolescent and primordial” part, his definition, Michele Canova was still there, the producer who forged the sound aesthetic of “Relative red” and “111” and who accompanied the songwriter of Latina also in the subsequent turns. This time at his side of are two producers of the Italian Rap Circuit such as Marz and Zefnamely Stefano Tognini and Alessandro Pulga, born in 1990 the first and 1989 the second, already alongside Marracash, Fabri Fibra, Guè and most of the protagonists of the scene. Together with them there is also Marco SonziniItalian sound engineer, but stationed in Los Angeles, with whom Iron has been collaborating for some time: it is the element of continuity compared to the last album of the singer -songwriter, of which he had edited most of the production. “With Marz and Zef I immediately felt in tune, a sort of magic that made the search for the right direction to take for a song so important for me. Working with a new team gave me the opportunity to look with new eyes to what I do, it was an opportunity to change some aspects of the job and fall in love with the profession of music again», He lets him know, that in the” broken heart “video clip he wanders the hall of a very elegant house armed with a baseball club, hitting everything that understood in shooting, including the gold and platinum records hanging on the walls. “I needed you like a white angel, like Virgin or Holy, like those who have no faith”, sings in the first verses of the individual, making the private individual immediately public.

Time to write a new chapter

It is also mixing R&B, anger and frustration, but by conveying it in a different way that at the time, which the song – written in its own hand – sees iron regery at his beginnings: “It is the sound of a destroyed love», Recites another verse, which becomes a mini-redemption of the song itself,” written because the pains and grudge will now make us dance “. Trusting the t-shirt with “Legend”, “legend” written, Tiziano Ferro seems to do tabula rasa: It’s time to write a new chapter. The devastation spared only an object, in the home lounge: a Half a tail piano. Iron caresses it, you sit down and start playing a tour of agreements: it resembles at the beginning of something already new. And maybe it is.