“Ra Ta Ta” by Mahmood: an emotional urban track

If there is one place that, after family and school, shapes our identity more than any other, it is the courtyard. As safe as it is close to the dangers of the road, it is the place of first sociality, where unforgettable friendships and enmities that can ruin our lives are made. It’s where you get bored and where you often live even more intensely than as adults. “Ra ta ta” it is also the place where the fiery words of the “machine gun mouths” sung by are born Mahmood. In the new single he paints, with evocative images, that age where everything and everyone seems (and perhaps is) bigger than us.

Written by Mahmood and produced by Katoo and Madfingerz, the song released on June 14th is tinged with Afro sounds that add warmth to the artist’s way of pronouncing the words. Not everything she describes seems real, but the sensations do: some tensions of youth have the same sound as blades clashing and sparking on contact: giving up is not an option.

“Ra Ta Ta” is a song completely in continuity with “Tuta gold“, with its load of memories and traumas, rich in the tenderness and edges that characterized his childhood and adolescence, a period of life from which he often seems to draw . We also find here, in a song that is somewhat anomalous in the panorama of summer songs, his ability to talk about his life in a way that the entire audience can relate to.