Antonello Venditti criticizes Annalisa: “Great singer but…”

When Antonello Venditti last night June 18th he asked if he was in the audience attending his concert at the Baths of Caracalla there were boys and girls who today will have to face the first exam tests maturity, many in the stands raised their hands, as if they were in a classroom at the teacher’s question. A number that impressed the artist, who with her tour celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the album “Cuore” and therefore of the song “Night before exams”.

Venditti responded with “thank you for coming, you have made this sacrifice. And I hope you don’t have to make the sacrifice in your life of giving up freedom, the possibility of saying no, the most difficult thing. I hope that these pine trees of Rome that are up here may they still accompany you for some time.” So, at the end of the performance of the famous song, “good luck”.

L‘friendship it is “the first true feeling: it has no boundaries, sex, political or economic division.Love it is an imperfect friendship”, said the singer backstage. “Love equals imperfect friendship because – according to the artist – “in some cases it is extreme selfishness, it creates fractures, violence, while it is very rare for friendship to create violence , actually it dampens it.” In love there is “an idea of ​​possession, which is not only narcissistic. And yet I have never known of someone who kills ‘out of friendship’…”. So what is the border line?, the reporter’s question. Answer: “It’s sex, it’s a yes or no…”.

Venditti then appreciates today’s music, but be careful: “These young people are good: I know how to do what they do, but they don’t know how to do what I do. Unlike us, they are pierced by the deadline, they are afraid of be forgotten. And take Annalisa: it’s a very good singer, but it was forced from the market to become something other than itself. Also Angelina Mango. Fantastic performers and then there’s someone who decides the sound for everyone.”