Anthony Ricci And Strip there News they start pointing fingers again Claudio Baglioni, with the singer accused of having copied the lyrics of a song from three poets. The programme, which had already started a battle against the singer-songwriter in the past, has in fact revealed an “engineering construction” by Baglione which would have taken verses from Quasimodo, Yourcenar And Tennyson composing an entire verse of one of his songs.
Ricci and Striscia la Notizia against Baglioni
In the episode broadcast on Monday 13 May on Canale5, Striscia la Notizia returns to deal with the poets and writers who have collaborated “without their knowledge” to the texts by Claudio Baglioni. The correspondent, in fact, showed the very strange composition of “Maipiù come te”, a song by the singer-songwriter from the early 2000s.
The text, in fact, contains verses in sequence by three different authors, three historical poets who “lent” the words to Baglioni who he made up an entire sentence of it.
The offending text
Baglioni’s “engineering construction” revealed by Casanova in Antonio Ricci’s program, in fact, reveals how the singer took verses from Salvatore Quasimodo, Marguerite Yourcenar and Alfred Tennyson.
In “Never again like you” Baglioni would have put the verses of the three poets in line with each other to compose an entire verse of the song: “But as it is always late to love (Quasimodo)/ Love is a punishment. We are punished for not being able to be alone (Yourcenar) / It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved (Tennyson)”.
To tell the truth, Baglioni sings: “And as it is always late to love, love is the penalty to pay for not wanting to be alone and it is better to love and lose than to win and never love”. According to an updated calculation by Striscia i “cited” passages would be over a hundred.
Antonio Ricci
Striscia and Baglioni, a ten-year struggle
It is therefore yet another battle of Strip against Baglioni, which has ended up in the sights of satirical news over the years. The controversy has been going on for a long time and the singer, in the past, had provoked Ricci over and over again.
Now the patron of Striscia reiterates: “He will not be able to justify a predatory conception of culture that I abhor. Looting may be a form of art, but not in such a blatant way. Thanks to De André who cited the sources, I and those of my generation were able to know and appreciate Brassens, Cohen, Lee Masters, Villon, Kavafis, Mutis”.
“If Baglioni had declared that the song ‘Il Pivot’ was strongly ‘inspired’ by Dennis Trudell, many might have been interested in the American poet who was practically unknown to us. Creating culture means sharing, discussing.”
Ricci then provoked Baglioni: “A piece of advice for Passerotto: Admit it and have a good laugh. Your fans would love you even more.”
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