Vasco Rossi back as promised “alive, healthy and shiny“After seven years – from the last album”I’m innocent“, 6 times Platinum and the best-selling record of 2014 – with the new”We are here” output on November 12 and that we have previewed. It is a bright and vivid X-ray of our times: from fluid love to bad days, from the theme of ignorance to the redemption pact between couples who now experience feelings like a perennial car showroom. A quote in the quote from “Just us“- who turns 40 this year – to”We are alone” a “We are here“. The red thread is that “are“To convey the idea of collectivity and the importance of mankind. The record was released between January and May of this year and is the 18th studio album, “So I’m of age“. “We are here” is basically an escape from reality: “This is how we felt in the first months of the year, we had many of those desire for rebirth, to make music and we hoped to also be able to do concerts”, explains Vasco who will be back live anyway. from May. Pandemic permitting. “This is un album classic rock – Vasco explained -, in contrast with the trends that exist today. All songs are played with the real tools. It sounds unbelievable but it’s true. Unlike today’s productions which are all made with sounds that aren’t true. In one piece, in one point, I wanted to use auto-tune, I wanted to do it, but they told me I was too in tune (laughs, ed). I don’t write to please, I don’t write thinking about what I’ll say, I let myself go to the flow of the unconscious, of inspiration. This is an amused, funny, spontaneous and true album. I am only sincere in the songs”.
“WE ARE HERE FULL OF TROUBLE, IN BALANCE IN THE HELL OF THE MIND”
“We are here full of trouble. The title would have been this but then we left the ‘full of trouble’ away. I wrote it before the pandemic. It’s a love song about the human condition which is to be thrown into the world. It is a song that carries over the whole album. I see all these opinions who are around, everyone has an opinion on everything, on social media there are opinions on all kinds. We no longer think about being but about having. We no longer know if it’s us or the technology that develops within us because the technique is exploiting our weaknesses, our aggression, our anger. Here it is the profit that matters. You are a person who is only worthwhile if you are useful. If you are not useful you are marginalized and turned away. So if there are people who come from abroad who are useful, well, if they come from abroad and you are not useful then it is not good. My lyrics are always with few words, they are like codes and you have plenty of time to let them settle inside. We are here alone and disappointed. In short, it is a manifest song where I really told myself in the continuous balance on the hell of the mind, which really exists “.
“IN A TWO-EYE RELATIONSHIP, YOU MUST ALSO CLOSE TWO EYES”
Among the songs that have been the forerunner to the disc also ‘A love song thrown away‘. “A couple relationship – explained the rocker – is always complicated and difficult to maintain even if sometimes someone makes a mistake and for only one lie of a night, you can throw it all away. What I say is that you have to understand that, sometimes, you have to turn a blind eye. To be together with a person and for a long time, a lifetime, you need to be able to turn a blind eye, sometimes even both of them. What matters is not the behavior but the project that is done together, a family project made up of commitments and to defend it from everyone and also from himself “.
“WITHOUT CONCERTS I HAD NO PURPOSE IN LIFE”
“The last time I saw my audience he was six times at the San Siro Stadium, it’s been two years – said Vasco -. An epochal disaster that has turned the world upside down and upset a lot of everyone and me too. I never thought I’d witness such a thing, it felt like we were living in a science fiction movie. Two summers have gone by without concerts. We were ready with the 2020 Festivals, then they were postponed, hoping to get them the following year but then they also postponed those of 2021. I stayed a bit like that, suspended in this period and I realized that by not doing the concerts, they failed the important purposes of my life. I have found other hobbies such as golf and horse but I’m nothing without music. This time for 2022 we have thrown our hearts over the obstacle, hoping that we can do concerts at 100% of the capacity for next summer. We hope that happens, I’m just waiting for this winter to pass to be safe and it should be fine this time. I even added the new dates, they have become 11 dates from North to South around Italy. This year we start much earlier, on May 20 in Trento ”.
“EXTREMISTIC RIGHTS BLOW ON HATE AND FAKE NEWS”
The “XI Commandment” gives us the most “political” Vasco. “There is a huge avalanche of ignorance, you can not argue with ignorance – said Vasco – I see many who continue to argue and there is no shit to do. It is better to surrender, I am ironic, to the bitter end. The new rulers and the Right of Melons and Salvini that are on the horizon, they are all on the wave of extremism and fake news. They can not only make laws in Parliament but going forward like this they will also make a new commandment. In Italy there are those who have sown hatred and it is these irresponsible politicians that just to get some more consensus they are ready to ride the fears of the people and make everyone more bad and everyone more pissed off ”. It is inevitable not to think about No Vax: “It is useless to discuss or try to talk to us, there is nothing that can be done. They need to believe in those things. I believe in science”.
PSALM, MANESKIN AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Vasco then freely said his opinion on other artists and events that have occurred in recent months. For example on the unauthorized concert of Psalm this summer: “A gesture made to point out that there was a problem. Governments do not look to music and concerts. In these two years of the pandemic, many workers have stayed at home, others have lost their jobs. We need to start thinking about full capacity events, also thanks to the success of the vaccination campaign “. The rocker greatly appreciates some of the young artists of the contemporary Italian scene such as Madame (“He sings with his soul and feels himself”), confirms that he appreciates the Maneskin (“A little Sanremo they won it also thanks to me, my fans voted them. I like them because they brought a good rock song”), White (“Good too”) and finally an invitation: “If you want to understand what today’s young people are like, listen the songs of Sfera Ebbasta, they talk about money, big cars, rolex, easy success. Don’t like this portrait? But it’s true ”. Vasco then confessed that he often goes on social media: “I’m an influencer too but I’m the only one who does it for free. But let’s remember that artists photograph what happens they don’t influence ”. Finally, today more than ever, freedom of speech is important: “If I say my opinion, I am accused that I just have to be a singer? I do what I want, I pay taxes and do not have a residence in Montecarlo as certain “.
IN THE CHAOS AND IN THE JUNGLE OF FEELINGS – THE TALE OF THE ALBUM
Vasco Rossi accompanies us in the middle of the jungle of the world we live in, where confusion and bitterness reign but all is not lost. In the album “We are here”The rocker pushes with electric guitars and hard rock in the opening of the record. Many themes were touched upon. Spread your arms out in front of a social – and partly political – situation by now disastrous (You cannot argue with ignorance. It pays to surrender. It pays to surrender indefinitely), the finding of the amore fluid in a liquid company and the “desire to make love, that is always the same”. It is true that “we are here, full of troubles” but we need to roll up our sleeves and move on. You just have to take note of it, perhaps with a hint of irony: “And I can’t take it anymore because I understand that I don’t enjoy it, because it no longer makes sense”. So what to do? “It’s best to get lost right away. Don’t panic“Because” when you will have found that Existing is only one more breath … You will be ready to die to live, finally as you want “. After all, you are never alone, this Vasco always says in his songs, “I didn’t even put the world back in place but I found you again“. Thus begins a mystical journey towards unknown destinations: “Take this lie, make yourself comfortable, come with me in the wake of this dream. Let’s take flight“. In the end, what binds people today is a real “pact with ransom, if nothing goes well what is done is done“. But feelings always win “it’s not easy. You are always right. My apologies are useless … But I can’t live without you”.
THE WINNING TEAM OF “WE ARE HERE”
Vasco Rossi he wrote all the songs, with the collaboration of Vince Pàstano for rock arrangements of pieces “designed and written to be sung live”, and by Master Celso Valli (“He is excellent, the Celsus in ballads”, says Vasco) who exceptionally – he does it only for Vasco’s records – also plays the piano as well as signing the arrangements of the ballads. For the music, the authors accomplices of many hits: Tullio Ferro, Roberto Casini e Gaetano Curreri. To them must be added the most recent collaborators: Vince Pàstano (“young and new talent”), Andrea Righi, Andrea Fornili, Saverio Grandi, Saverio Principini and Simone Sello. There is also a little bit of Guido Elmi, in the music of the rock song “Tu ci ha l’hai con me” that he had started writing with Vince Pàstano.
VASCO LIVE 2022: “READY TO START AGAIN”
It will start at Trento on 20 May 2022, with a special event, and will end at Turin on June 30, 2022, the tour that will bring Vasco back to the stage of the main Italian stadiums. To satisfy the huge demand for tickets, 6 new appointments are added to the already existing and sold out dates, for a total of 11 concerts and a nice up and down all over Italy, after Trento there are Milan (May 24), Imola (May 28), Florence (June 3), Naples (June 7), Rome (June 11 and 12), Messina (June 17), Bari (June 22), Ancona (June 26) and Turin (June 30)
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