The sparks continue between Gino Paoli and Elodie. «Perhaps what I said was misinterpreted. What I mean is that the further we go, the more appearance is more important than substance. Appearance pays and substance doesn’t”, the singer’s words to the microphones of gr1 Rai on the occasion of the presentation of his autobiography ‘What I’ll do when I grow up’, regarding the artists, including Elodie on the front line, who felt affected from some statements made by Gino Paoli in a long interview with Aldo Cazzullo in Corriere della Sera.
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«This is what happens today, where it is not important how good a person is at singing, the important thing is to be pleasant and apparently acceptable. Following this type of mentality, I believe that Lucio Dalla would never have become Lucio Dalla”, says the Genoese singer-songwriter. Responding to the question on why he defined that show as a ‘mer**’ environment, he declared to Corriere Paoli: «Because it’s all appearance. Today worse than yesterday. Yesterday we had Mina and Vanoni. Today singers who show their ass emerge.”
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None of the names of the young colleagues had been pronounced by the author of ‘Sky in a room’, but the dig that quickly bounced on social media had sparked debate and controversy and among these, Elodie’s response went viral on social media. Speaking on I prefer to be a nice person.” The singer’s followers caught a precise reference to Gino Paoli’s words, sparking a more than heated debate. The conflict is destined to continue.
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2023-12-16 17:53:00
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