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A work composed of 13 songs, divided into a side A and a side B that characterize two styles and two worlds of the singer-songwriter that, however, also confirms in this album that she has found her own perfectly recognizable stylistic code even within a path evolutionary. An album that puts the lyrics and the story of oneself before the sound. Inside, some guests, dear friends that you met throughout your career: da Rkomi a Ax-J, go to Achille Lauro It’s in Chadia Rodriguez. All songs were written by Annalisa with the collaboration of some of the most important authors of this moment and the production was divided between Michele Canova, Dardust and d.whale (Davide Simonetta).
This album comes after almost two years of work, prolonged even more by the blockage of the last months that has postponed the release initially scheduled for spring. How has it changed during construction?
The first song I wrote for this album was “Bonsai”, which was born at the end of 2018. Then there was intensive work on writing and in-depth study. At one point, all of this paid off and the album was already there, but it couldn’t come out. In the end I must say that it was almost a fortune because this wait made me want to deepen things, reopen some traces …
“Bonsai” is, among other things, a list of defects: are they all yours or did your imagination also catch you?
All my things! That’s a song that started a whole series of ideas. This list of defects reveals a series of contradictions, of fragility that are part of me and many others. And I think in the end it brings a lot of people together.
Last year they released “Avocado Toast”, which seemed like the beginning of the road that would lead to the album. Why isn’t that song on the record at the end?
Actually, “Avocado Toast” was an appetizer (laughs). In the end, the idea has always been that, even releasing it long before the album has been released. I’ve always experienced it as an episode in its own right.
During the blackout period, did some songs come in place of someone else or did you just put your hand on the ones that were already planned?
Mainly I reworked what they already were. Others have been born but these will be good in the future … A song I worked on a lot is “NUDA”. Even if the concept was immediately that, I felt the need to say more. In the end, I think music should tell reality, both what we see around us and what we see inside. It is undeniable that in recent months we have experienced things that have encouraged us to ask ourselves a few more questions. I’m very happy because if I think about the album that would come out in March and compare it with the one that will come out at the end, I like the second one much more. I like to look at the glass as half full.
Are you an optimistic person?
I am optimistic and I also try very hard to be and I like it that way.
This is a register in which you open up particularly, showing even your most fragile side. Does it correspond to a change in your life or did you just feel the need to make your music as “sincere” as possible?
It is always a need of mine that is reflected in what I do in music. I’ve always wondered a lot about how others see me, about the perception of those I know. So I try to go deeper and deeper in this direction. With ‘Bye Bye’, even harshly, I said, ‘I’m not going to satisfy you anymore, now I do what I want.’ And it was not an artistic matter but a personal one. Now I wanted to expose that sphere of fragility that exists and I don’t want to hide. Everything is also linked to our way of communicating, linked to showing ourselves, to social networks.
Where everything is very filtered …
In reality, they are even a small part of who we are. I don’t think they represent the false, basically the choices that one makes say a lot, sometimes it says more what you do not see of a person than what it shows. I like to count these things.
The least glamorous part of life?
Yes. Because if you see wonderful places published, colors, smiles … it’s beautiful, great. But it can’t be just that, otherwise it makes me think I’m a loser. In reality we are all like that, but in that context a piece of our world is shown.
When presenting the album, you said that you wanted to make known what we are when “it is about dismantling that farce that most of the time we are”. At the beginning of your career, to defend yourself from this new world you were facing, did you often hide your true essence?
Actually, I have never limited myself from this point of view. I never hid so much. But I fought to be free and to live all these phases with a daily naturalness. At first everything was a test for me that I tried to measure up, with a load of tension that you can imagine. Then, growing up, I learned to work with it.
The album is divided into a part A, where you feel more at home, and a part B more experimental. Is it a progression that represents the direction you are moving artistically?
No, the pieces were actually born mixed, not in that chronological order. But I wanted to divide them according to their nature. If we want to use a metaphor, side A is the subject in focus in the photo, side B is all those details that remain in the background but knowing them gives more depth and meaning to what you are looking at.
From a musical point of view, what is the greatest growth that characterizes this work compared to “Bye Bye”?
There is increasing freedom from the point of view of writing. Sound must somehow think about it but attention to content prevails. I am more focused on language than sentence construction. Each choice from the sonic point of view aims to give value to this and not the other way around. In short, we never start from a cool beat to make up a song.
And from this point of view, what added value do collaborations bring to the songs?
They are born to give strength to a concept and a side of me. All the guests represent a meeting point between something of them and mine. With Chadia we unite a bit of individualism that she shows a lot, to me less, but is also part of me.
What is the point of contact with Lauro instead?
This musical game, the somewhat allusive provocation is its flag. I also have it in a small part and so I have explored this other high.
And with Ax?
With him, on the other hand, the common ground is the desire to break labels and stereotypes, living each aspect of life with its own personality and sensitivity, without there being good and bad.
The album ends with the song “NUDA” in which he talks about the extreme deprivation of filters and constructions, the final stage of the passage from humans to animals. How strong is your animal side?
In fact, it tends to emerge more and more. This wanting to undress and bring out the most instinctive part, linked to the tactile manifestations that we have and that I feel more and more alive. This thing is very present in me although I have yet to learn to trust my instincts. Honestly, he is almost never wrong, but often I am the one who fools him with too much reasoning. Which quickly leads me to make mistakes.
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