ONE YEAR OF TEATRO D'IRA. MANESKIN-VENT'ANNI REVIEW.

 A few weeks ago, on March 19, it was the one year anniversary of Teatro D'Ira Vol. 1, the second album from Maneskin.

The project came just a couple of weeks after winning Sanremo, a commercial technique that is often used to make the most of the contestants' stardom - like Irama has done with Il giorno in cui ho smesso di pensare - On the album, Maneskin tried to fulfill and accomplish their best rock sound after the more pop Il ballo de la vita.

Today, we focus on the first single from Teatro D'Ira , VENT'ANNI, where the band melts in alt-rock guitars -forgetting hard rock for a while- to introduce ballad drums in the closing piece of the album.

  Vent'anni is an authentic existentialist poem about the worries of people in their early twenties: The ambition to leave a mark, idealism, the choices and mistakes we made, the opposition to materialism...

Just in the first lines, Maneskin adresses the current topic of nonsense-drama associated with teenagers and youth to start digging in the real, important things.  There is a desire for authenticity ('E andare un passo più avanti, essere sempre vero' // Going one step forward being always true ), but also for the freedom of being who you want to be. And that's what Zitti e Buoni, the song with they won Eurovision, was all about :'Siamo fuori di testa ma diversi da loro' (We're crazy but we're different from them') the chorus shouts. The attempt for a more rock sound despite the opposition to rock bands in Italy symbolized this idea too. 

The video (made by Borotalco.TV) captures some bucolic beauty to portray the beauty of the youth, made of  bittersweet, bright colours or moments in the fog of life .

Vent'anni is a chant to the search of freedom and the pursuit of identity. The song takes youth and spread out its consequences in this long poem. 




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