kuuleimomi's Full Review: Rosso Relativo by Tiziano Ferro
Tiziano Ferro is a very popular Italian singer. He crashed Europe with his “Xdono” back in 2001. [“X” in Italian also stands for “per”, so the word is “Perdono”.] Though Europe eagerly embraced this 21-year-old hot Italian and made his album multi-platinum, I have not heard much of him till my summer 2006 trip to Italy, when I have re-discovered his music. He has released three albums so far: Rosso Relativo (2001), 111 (2003) and most recently Nessuno è solo (2006). I like his recent work better, but will review the albums chronologically. There are Italian, Spanish and English editions of some albums and singles. So beware!
Rosso Relativo is a pop album. If I had to describe Ferro’s style of the year 2001, I’d say it is immature pop with elements of rap and a lot of force, heavy on drums and bass. The force probably comes from the language, because I’ve noticed it in a lot of Italians. [Hey, you can even hear the force in Gigi d’Alessio’s music and his music is soft as Kleenex.]
Tiziano has a pretty strong vocal, though in terms of the albums he’ll put it in use more with his later work. His singing style scored him an unflattering name “Cane” [“a dog”], though I have to say that it’s also will be expanded in his real work and does show much in Rosso Relativo. Or maybe I just got used to it? Typical ‘dog’-singing could be found in “Imbranato”.
Tiziano is Italian, of course he sings in Italian. Do you need to understand what he sings? Well, if you get a kick out of his voice and music, you might want to find out what he is so passionately singing about. Tiziano’s official website [www.tizianoferro.com] offers some lyrics not only in Italian, but Spanish, French, and English, due to having multiply-language album releases.
To enjoy his music you don’t need to speak Italian (provided that you enjoy pop music in general). Some of the lyrics are phonetically melodic, i.e. the sounds combined so that they are musical as they are, like in “L’olimpiade”, the song I dig very much and don’t understand at all.
Would I recommend buying a non-Italian album? I have not listened to any of them. I firmly believe that a singer should sing in a language they are mostly comfortable writing their music in and expressing it. Though not many Italians would have a problem singing in Spanish, English is a stumbling block for many.
I’m studying Italian and listening to Tiziano is a great way to expand vocabulary and learn grammar (though now and again he’s singing things that are not exactly correct). After translating a song with dictionary and spinning it a few times, you’ll remember a handful of useful constructions. Listening to music helped me a decade ago with my English, now it’s helping me with Italian. Why I choose Tiziano and not another singer for tutoring purposes? Though he is “il cane”, I really dig his voice. His music is very catchy and it has interesting arrangements, like in the song “Le cose che non dici” [Things you don’t say]. So you commit to memory new vocabulary without actually studying anything.
His songs are about love, breaking up, asking forgiveness (there are a lot of words like "scusa" [I'm sorry] and "perdono" [forgive]). Tiziano is very Italian, in every sense of it.
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