In the episode of Belve on Tuesday 16 April, Francesca Fagnani interviewed Marcella Bella. The themes addressed and the teasing received by the artist and those that the singer returned were different.
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Marcella Bella she was the first protagonist of the episode of Beasts aired on Tuesday 16 April. The singer spoke about herself from a private perspective, amidst the teasing she suffered and received from the landlady Francesca Fagnani. The first “beast” is that she was unprepared for the acronym LGBTQIA +. “I’m a gay icon even if I don’t like saying this phrase. There are many homosexuals among my admirers. I don’t have certificates but I’m waiting for this cup”, the singer declared, offering her side to Fagnani: “Dissolve the acronym LGBTQIA+”. But the singer stumbled and she stopped at the second letter.
The attack on Anna Tatangelo: “In Sanremo with a song that I had already done”
The attack on Anna Tatangelo arrived halfway through the interview when the singer accused her of having copied the song “Bastardo”, taken to Sanremo: “Two years earlier I had sung Bastard Man and two years later she sang a similar song thinking she was the only one. Of course she had noticed, go figure. Mine was more beautiful because it was original, no one had ever sung it”. But Sanremo is a sore point for the artist: “They don’t take me to Sanremo despite the beautiful songs. For 5 years I wasn’t among the chosen singers, maybe Ama doesn’t love me. Baglioni was first but in these 5 years I have sent song after song every year”.
“I threatened to hit Lory Del Santo who was talking in my husband’s ear”
Another anecdote told by the artist refers to a meeting-clash with Lory Del Santo: “He arrived, knelt down and spoke into my husband’s ear. He was terrified and, upon my question, he told me that he had never seen her. She left but after half an hour she came back there talking in his ear again. I never saw her again: I took off her shoe to put it on her head while my husband held me”. He ended badly: “I patted her back and asked her if she knew my husband. She told me that she didn’t know him and at that point I asked her to leave without looking back”.
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The double meaning on the song Nell’aria
Without going too far into the double meaning, Bella also tried to clarify the famous double meaning contained in the lyrics of the song Nell’aria. “I just hope a man doesn’t come knocking now. I would behave in a way I wouldn’t want to. My mind is clear, but sometimes the sex is stronger. My cat is still there, she doesn’t speak but she says yes“, recites the verse about which the singer says: “It’s about a very passionate woman who would like to have a man around but who isn’t there at that moment. Don’t make me say things I might regret. When I sang it to myself I was talking about a cat. I didn’t give any weight to that double burden that was there. There was a woman who had a certain…I have to stop myself, I don’t want to slip into the itch right now”.
The problems with the tax authorities: “They apologized”
A few moments of nervousness came when Fagnani asked Bella to explain the investigation received from the tax authorities which the singer claims was resolved with an official apology. “Of course they apologized to me, I spoke to the person responsible who apologized to me. I replied that excuses are not valid when the headlines are broadcast on the news. Was the crime prescribed? No, she is also misinformed. They had made a mistake. There was nothing prescribed. They apologized and I accepted the apology”, was the response. So, when Fagnani reminded her of some of the properties that she owns together with her family, she glossed over: “Yes, we had a boat but we have had many. What if I bought a house in Ibiza? But what is it, has it turned into the treasury?”. Finally, a thought to his brother Gianni Bella: “I’m missing an arm, a hand, my ears without Gianni. For a great artist like him, not being able to sing or write anymore was a terrible punishment, a pain that I will always have. I owe everything to him, I don’t even know if I would have sung without him. When I’m no longer here I would like to be remembered for my songs, the ones my brother wrote”.