The summer tormentone is the fundamental element of Italian beach life, after the watermelon in the cool and the golden rule of the three hours before the bath if you have eaten. Born in the Sixties, the summer hit has always had the power to erase all worries, to focus on the here and now of listening. Years go by but the ingredients for a hit remain the same: Latin rhythm; text not too articulate, with a splash of Spanish words; a ballet combined with proof of virality on TikTok. The centrality goes to the chorus, which must stick in the listener’s mind from June to August and reappear at the first autumn chill, stirring up a certain melancholy for the summer gone. We already have some catchphrases, and we hope to put them behind us soon.
Sexy Shop, Fedez and Emis Killa
For several recent summers champion of tormentoni, this year Fedez fishing among the Italian artists Emis Killa, with whom he wrote the most talked about piece of the year: Sexy Shop. The urban pop structure, more than catchy, far from the last summer songs of the rapper of Rozzano (Mille, La dolce vita, Disco paradise), has gone into the background of the text, sifted deeply by haters and supporters of the royal family of Citylife. Many of the verses incriminated, as "Perché farci del male, è una fede nuziale/ Con il foro d’uscita" or "Senorita, stai ballando sola/ Calamita per la mia pistola", the latter accused of being a rhythmic reference not too veiled to the Bible of musical dissing, or Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol 53 by Shakira.
Sesso e Samba, Tony Effe and Gaia
Combine the Romanity of the late Dark Polo Gang with the Italobrasilian rhythm of Gaia and you will have the marauder features that you do not expect, but you unexpectedly needed. Three words, eleven letters, and an alliteration of the letter S, magnetic and annoying on the fourth listening: a packed tormentone, which makes the Trapper of Roma bene, no matter if robberies and guns appear in the text. Two opposites that "are not so different", beautiful to see and listen to, perfectly balanced in the music: that it is the first of a series of collaborations that can undermine the king of tormentoni?
Malavita, Coma_Cose
In Sanremo they sang the difficulties of being together (L'Addio) and love like no other, giving one of the best phrases to write under the balcony from the time of Io e te tre metri sopra il cielo: "Se l'inverno è soltanto un'estate che non ti ha conosciuto". The most loved couple of the Italian indie pop scene, with Malavita has ventured into a tormentone that recalls the Fausto and Miss California origins, those of Yugoslavia and Post concerto: electronic base and surrealist pop text blend with a rhythm reminiscent of a taranta worthy of Boomdabash. Hermetic chorus, of a single word like the title, repeated eight times in three stanzas: too much also for lovers of tormentone. Put it off till next summer.
Come un tuono, Rose Villain e Gué
A Rose Villain and Gué must have fallen just a bit of Latin America in this piece all bachata and reggaeton: I dare to find water aerobics lessons that will not take advantage of this carefree and light piece. Baby, tolgo il tettuccio/Tu sei bella, Bellucci/Ho preso fiori, Fiorucci/Sono più G di Gucci: literally like thunder, 4 stanzas that stun, automatic gestures on the display of the car while you are queuing on the highway to the sea. Skip back, save in the playlist of Spotify and, as soon as you see the sea, pass the toll, you want to dye your hair blue like Rose Villain.
30°C, Anna
The emblem of street credibility is her, Anna, born in 2003, the same one who "beccava nel bando sopra il Booster", the only one who decided to challenge the summer rankings alone, without the tactic of the featuring. He followed to the letter the golden rules of the tormentone, adapting them to his style: Hispanics and Anglicisms as if it rained, no matter if used for dissing, Latin trend that allows you to close well every verse, chorus that winks at the Italian tradition of the economic boom (A-Abbronzatissima e bellissima/ Ha-Ha gli occhi come il mare, corpo che ti fa fare/ Abbronzatissima, simpaticissima/ Ha-Ha in mano un Margarita e si gode la vita). Following the trail of Bnkr44 and Pino D'Angiò, who knows is thinking of a past-present featuring Edoardo Vianello.
The summer is still long, time to enter the list of the most unbearable pieces there is still.
Illustratiuon by Gloria Dozio - Acrimònia Studios
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