Fedez continues to generate controversy. The (few) songs he produces seem to always be oriented towards making people talk about their contents, more or less appreciable, rather than their pleasant listening. This time the video for the single “Die Die”, the first extracted from the album Inhuman, ended up in the eye of the storm. In particular, to be criticized is a precise scene of the video clip, in which a man wearing the tricolor band, which is supposed to represent a public official and, usually, a mayor, urinates on the rapper, lying on the ground. A scene with a strong symbolic connotation, of contempt on the part of the institution.
The first to raise their voices against the singer were two Venetian mayors, that of Treviso and that of the country. “Being mayor is listening, making yourself available to a community from the municipality of 30 inhabitants to the metropolis of 3 million. It is reaching out, looking for a solution even where it seems unlikely if not impossible. Being mayor is giving answers when other institutions do not give them, it is drying the tears and sometimes being there … In tears“, he has declared Mario Conte, mayor of the Treviso capital. The sidaco then continued: “Being mayor means helping your fellow citizens during the storm, opening the doors of the Town Hall and the Office. To be present. Being mayor is sometimes not sleeping at night and not even having time to pee. I understand the will to strike, to make people talk always and in any case, to challenge algorithms. I also understand that Fedez’s art is provocation. But let’s forget the mayors. They, with the singing and political-musical tussle, do not want to have anything to do with it“.
That tricolor headband, worn in such a strong and offensive passage of the music video, also made him jump in the chair. Katia Uberti, mayor of the country: “Dear Fedez, we mayors represent the citizens of our communities regardless of the political side with which we are candidates, we represent the institutions of this country that are an expression of freedom and democracy. We wear the tricolor headband with pride, respect and responsibility“. So, even this mayor sinks the blow on the singer:”What do you do? Offend all those people who are dedicated to the service of small or large communities! But what is even more serious is that we now feel entitled to trample everything, I wonder what kind of message we are delivering to future generations“.
Instead of dwelling on the point made by the mayors, who expressed their idea on what they considered an affront to their profession, the rapper in his Instagram stories preferred to focus on the passage in which the mayor of Treviso explained that, often, in his role, sometimes there is no time even just to pee. “I want to thank this mayor for snatching me a smile“Fedez said before smiling at the hypothesis that mayors are often so busy.
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