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ITALY – Volevo Essere Un Duro – Lucio Corsi
Dear reader, I think I may have been a bit overambitious with my writing schedule this year! At this rate it’ll be more of a case of “What the hell already happened?” than “What the hell is going to happen?” by the time I hit the end of the alphabet. I might need to ramp up the slapdashness even further just to get through it all…
Anyway, I’m nothing if not inconsistent in my criteria for liking a song or not. A case in point is what happens when it pulls my “This sounds like something else!” levers. If it’s something I’m deeply familiar with, it generally makes me say “Nope!”, but if it’s something buried so deep in the bottom of my memory that I have almost no chance of pulling it out then something more fun happens. I don’t even know why a song like that sometimes ends up feeling like a vaguely comforting warm hug, but it does.
You’ll not be surprised to learn then that Lucio Corsi is delivering me one of the vaguest, warmest, most comfortable hugs of the year. The string arrangement is gorgeously lush, and the melody on the “vivere la vita” part is – oh, I just don’t know what that is exactly, but I’ve heard it before and I like it.
There’s so many bits of my childhood soundtrack in here, there’s some Elton John, there’s some Beatles, there’s some Dire Straits, there might be the subtlest sniff of Adieu from ESC 1982 (you didn’t think all my musical reference points would be normal, did you?), and it’s all just absolutely lovely nostalgic stuff. Yes, it didn’t beat the winner of Sanremo – but in this arena it doesn’t have to.
Will this be the song I spend my summer with, the song I fall in love to or even the song with which I give someone a special message? Most likely not – but it’s proving to be a very smooth, very pleasant little cog in the wheel of Spring 2025, and I appreciate its presence as much as any and more than most.
Nick’s score: 10