THETake That’s Ciccio Bomba. So, a lifetime ago now, Elio and the Tense Stories he called Gary Barlow in a song entitled TVUMDB, where Giorgia’s voice is also heard. It was a clear reference to a line that wasn’t exactly impeccable on the part of the man who, in fact, had written all the songs of the boy band that would later launch him into the pop empire Robbie Williams. Moreover, Elio would also have written lines such as “there is a lobby of rich people who have decided that last year red was in order and this year blue”, as well as a whole series of other ironic gimmicks which have their roots in politically incorrect. They couldn’t do that today. They would literally be crucified on the wall, guilty of having discriminated against a minority already discriminated against. Someone would stand up, with their little finger pointing to the sky, also explaining that satire, to be such, must target those who have power, not those who are discriminated against, and would you want to explain to them that in these cases it is a common feeling, often unspoken, that is the object of irony, certainly not the minority in question. However, we don’t talk about ciccio*i in the songs anymore. And not even rich ones. Unless they do it themselves. Often to complain about when they were bullied for being part of a discriminated minority. A way to reverse a narrative, it would seem. As well as to highlight an obvious distortion. I say this because we started talking about fat and rich again recently, when Tiziano Ferro took up the article by our Grazia Sambruna, which in some way attributed to Mara Maionchi and Alberto Salerno having “forced” Tiziano, a very young, obese and homosexual Tiziano, to lose weight and keep his orientation to himself. A constraint, this is Sambruna’s thesis, later taken up by the no longer obese but obviously still gay Tiziano Ferro, who would have facilitated his rapid rise to success, obviously thanks to his talent and also the work of Maionchi-Salerno in his early album, but at the same time gave us a life full of unhappiness. Here, let’s think about it. Or rather, let’s start from there to think about it. Tiziano Ferro, it’s history, since he made a double coming out, first regarding his having been obese, 111, his second album, had as its title his youthful weight, around the age of thirty his autobiography would then arrive, anticipated by famous interview with Vanity Fair in which he finally said how things were, it caused a whole series of traumas, problems, pains that would/have characterized his life as a man and as an artist. Everyone, as has been said several times, has spelled out urbi et orbi with millimetric precision, at every significant release on the market, let it be said that it has been alcoholic, bullied, whose dog died, who had a desire for fatherhood or, recently, who could not leave the USA due to the divorce from her husband, the marriage with which, as well as the fatherhood arrived, in turn always announced close to important record or editorial releases. To therefore be here to say that she used her former obesity and her homosexuality to make it a key part of her poetics in a paracula way would be wrong, not so much in excess, let alone, if anything in deficiency, because he exploited everything that happened to him or that he perceived to have happened to him for marketing, even if he had happened to step on dog shit, alive, once he got out on the street he would probably have made a whining video about it, telling how the thing had caused who knows what devastating effect on him .
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