Obituary Franco Battiato, the pop humanist, dies at 76
Music I want to see you dance, Permanent center of gravity and other unforgettable songs by Franco Battiato
There is in
Franco Battiato
that difficult definition in a specific genre of the great musicians and that crossing generations to sneak into all of them. Because Italian, an essential part of the sound lives of a large part of those born before the 90s, has also indirectly found its place between
millennials
and
centennials.
That matter that has come to be called the
mainstream
also claims its dose of Franco.
Luca Guadagnino was one of those in charge of bringing him closer to those generations who rejoiced in the erotic scene of
Timothée Chalamet tearing a peach on the bed in the summer heat
of Tuscany and masturbating with him. Because you know what Elio was listening to in that scene from
Call me by your name
? Indeed, Franco Battiato. Because there is nothing to love suffering and melancholic destruction like an Italian song.
That is why the adolescent closes the pages of
The Heart of Darkness,
the novel by Joseph Conrad, and decides to change the frequency of the transistor - yes, a transistor - to substitute
E 'la vita,
by Marco Armani, for
Radio Varsavia,
of Battiato
. Two minutes of discovery of sexuality and guilt in harmony with what the song says: "The last resort is to forget."
You don't have to move from Tuscany, just go to a Florentine abbey, to find Battiato's second foray to the center of the
mainstream
. Because if there is something that implies that term, it is
La casa de papel,
the Atresmedia series that Netflix ended up becoming a world icon. And there, in one of the most iconic scenes of fiction, there
is
also
the Italian singer with a
permanent Centro di gravità
.
Perhaps Battiato's discography had few songs more recognized than this one, but the series created by Álex Pina and Esther Martín Lobato was in charge of delivering it to those who did not yet know it. They are a choir of monks, accompanied by a piano, who are in charge of starting their particular version before Pedro Alonso, Rodrigo de la Serna, Hovik Keuchkerian, Luka Peros, Álvaro Morte and Diana Gómez start to dance it.
Who wouldn't want to dance to that song in the middle of a wedding or argue about love and betrayal, as
The Professor
and Berlin
do at that time
, having the phrase "never make me change my mind about people's things" playing in the background . That's starting a marriage on the right foot and having
21 million streams on Spotify
, a good way to perpetuate what has always been a hit.
Like the entire career of a man, who died this Tuesday, and little given to lavish himself in his public life and who, nevertheless, has not ceased to be a star for any past, present and, probably, future generation. Because those who do not know the career of Franco Battiato, do not approach the cinema or series, they
have a third chance at Manuel Jabois and his novel
Malaherba.
Because the name of its central character, Tambu, does not come from the Bob Dylan song -
Mr Tambourine Man
- but
from Franco Battiato's
White Flag
.
"That song and
Prospettiva Nevski
were the soundtrack when I was in the family hotel in Sanxenxo", explained the Galician author himself at the presentation of his book at the infamous Types bookstore in Madrid when there was no pandemic in this world.
One can also find Battiato in
his cinephile foray as producer and scriptwriter in
Perduto Amor or Musikaten
and in the soundtracks of films such as
Sara May;
Cellini, a violent life,
or
Father
.
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