Of all forms of masochism, journalism is not the least deviant. Witness this series of portraits around the “promises of 2023”, ending with that of a singer who, in 2019, stormed: “What will the newspapers say? “The promise of the year…” And, to all these asslickers, I say: “Fuck you!” » (“What will the newspapers say?” “Promise of the Year” /And I say fuck you all, fuck you, ass kisser »in VO). The author of this fire, Francesca Calearo, will celebrate her 21st birthday on January 16, according to the Italian civil status. On stage, the same calls herself Madame, in French in the text. Would she have put away her bad manners in the locker room? The matron bends with good grace, in any case, to the interview game – interrupting her family vacation in the Dolomites to talk to us by video, a few days before holding the poster for the traditional concert on December 31, in Rome.
At the beginning of February, she will participate for the second time in the Sanremo festival, the mass of the rital variety, of which she is one of the great favorites. The original title of the song, whore, was crossed out at the last moment – it is now called The good in the bad. “Good in evil”, therefore: masochistic, but not too much.
Francesca confesses to an approximate knowledge of French, which she studied until college. She nevertheless recorded a duet with a Gallic rapper, Hatik (You understood me, 2022). Other incursions on this side of the Alps are to be expected in the coming months, swears the one who quotes Gainsbourg, Brassens, Tellier, PNL, Odezenne or Mansfield. TYA among his sources of inspiration. If he amplifies his francophilia, his alias was given to him by an app, in high school: “With a friend, at recess, we downloaded a pseudonym generator for drag queensrewinds the young woman. He suggested Pinky Girl Pink and Madame Wild. I kept Mrs. »
If he amplifies his francophilia, the alias of Francesca Calearo was blown to him by an app, in high school
Lady Calearo owes her fame to another kind of generator: the Instagram account of footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and its hundreds of millions of subscribers. In August 2019, the five-time Ballon d’Or illustrated one of his “stories” with Sciccherie. Either the second song published by Madame, who was then only 17 years old. His cheeky nerve, his shocked scansion, his sought-after lexicon clash in La Botte, where pop remains a male prerogative. In March 2021, she finished eighth at Sanremo, immediately publishing an admirable first album, Madame, rose to the top of the most listened to singers in the country. ” Madame kills stereotypesanalyzes the music critic Giulia Cavaliere. At Sanremo, she covered a piece by Adriano Celentano, a paragon of virility, in jacket and trousers… She practices a form of visceral cut-up, which breaks with the canons of rap, pop and chanson. »
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