Achille Lauro has traveled a lot. So much in America. And «America – he tells La Repubblica – helped me understand how I became who I am today. The fact is that no one can cage me, I want to sabotage my career.” Strong words. Strong and clear as he is.
X Factor
And so he promises to also be as a judge on the X Factor. «I will try to bring my values to the program. Many just want to become famous, but I love music and I’m interested in finding anarchic artists, listening to something that overwhelms me. I don’t blame anyone or anything but sometimes there is terrifying music that is the result of calculation. For the rest it’s right to be rigid, honest, and then I always say that you have to learn to fail. As a judge, I don’t have to mortify anyone, with the more self-deprecating kids you can try to lighten things up.”
Perhaps just like he did with the living paintings in Sanremo. «At a certain point I thought: but who makes me do this? But I don’t regret it, on the contrary.”
The music
Then his music. Today’s but also yesterday’s but always without regret, as with the piece Mille which today seems to be very distant from his path. «I wasn’t convinced. When I heard the chorus sung by Orietta Berti I understood that it was an immersion in the 60s. It was an experiment in entertainment, it had a frightening success. And then, I repeat, I like the idea of not being pigeonholed.” She also tells La Repubblica about her transformation. «I grew up in an environment where culture is not contemplated. When you live in trauma you tend to normalize everything, but then I became allergic to certain ways, I felt like nothing. This sparked my curiosity, I learned to learn from others. The scariest thing was thinking of becoming a person without a place in the world, without a basis.”
And for this «I am grateful for having met that face, in Rome there is poetry everywhere, even in disillusionment. It’s very Pasolini-esque. The fact of having put together so many genres and stories allowed me to not have casual listeners”
And speaking of Rome: «I owe him everything. Far away I felt alone, and I was able to transform certain voids into music.” How do you see yourself in ten years? «Free and ready to throw myself into the world without a net. To throw myself into the void. I don’t want to fall into the trap of thinking that success is happiness. My goals, at least those, are infinite.”
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