“Hate doesn’t stop me, life is mine”

“My words will not stop the violence of the judgment of some, but of my life I decide because at 37 I understood that there is only one” cut short Marco Mengoni The other night, just off the lights of the “Maradona” in Naples on the debut of the new tour, re -establishing the controversies flared on social networks because of the corsets “genderless”Which he wears in his new Kolossal from stadium on which the criticisms (homophobic) of the network were pinned.

Tourbillon that since the preview of Lignano has threatened to shift attention from the theatrical contents of this. However, new company – ambitiously conceived on the idea of ​​telling the humanity of today using the canons of the Greek tragedy – to the outfits edited by the stylist Nick Cerioni. For example, A shoulder to the binary codes “hate doesn’t stop me, life of the male. Nevertheless, female anticipated by Mengoni already in Sanremo presenting himself to co-conduct the fourth evening wearing a black skirt. For example, On the stages of the musica con l’eter queer have “flirted” many. For example, from Mahmood a Damiano De Moonlightas well Adam Lambert a Sam Smithbut the choice of warrior interpreter creates languor that the show leaves behind the bruised sky and the rubble of a port of the mists to which the collapse of the lighthouse has removed the horizon line.

The road that leads to those crystal skyscrapers in which he sings. suspended in midair, things like this and incense, begins there. Beauty. transparency intended as a reflection “of the fragility that I carry inside me after losing the most important person of my life”. That mother Nadia (“and even when you look able to climb the world. at least you defend my “hate doesn’t stop me, life insecurities” says the light of light) that seems to peek into several passages of the show.

“A work that dives into a pop concert” to put it with the creator. who in over two and a half hours of walking finds a way to mention, among others, Black Hole Sun dei Soundgarden in La Valle dei King, love a little by Lucio Battisti in sending everything to the air, ordinary world of Duran Duran in The essentials. A narrative that, as in the dystopian comic book of stadiums of Marracashsometimes risks gangling the narrato.

“The glass city is beautiful from outside, but fragile inside” he admits. “Either we have not studied the story. we entrusted too much to the wind that changes and we have not been careful. Obviously people who have allowed everything that is happening now have been voted. It is a historical moment that I personally do “hate doesn’t stop me, life not like. to me and not even all those who are with me on stage”.

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Marco Mengoni, the dates of the European tour

‘Two lives’ Mengoni sings it on a 26 meter mobile platform that rises and rotates above the heads of the public, while the new single with RKOMI E SAYF ‘I’m fine at the sea’ finds a place in the encore together with that act of faith that is human beings arrival point of a journey in which Marco does not give up a thought to Palestine to say “stop this horrible stuff that the man continues to do, I don’t know why” with the hope that the message will arrive strong and clear “to those heads of ca ** o”. “hate doesn’t stop me, life And it is frankly difficult not to understand who is talking about.

Now the road continues for others Ten nights in the stadiumsincluding the Dall’Ara in Bologna on 5. 6 July, the Meazza of Milan on 13 and 14, and then move from the Palasport in October (12 Assago, 21 and 22 Pesaro, 24 Casalecchio di Reno, 28 and 29 Florence) and continue in Europe in November with stages in Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Holland, France, Luxembourg, United Kingdom and Spain.