Like every year the Sanremo Festival absorbs the evenings of millions of Italians For a week. Among criticisms, comments and listening groups, melodies, show and glamorous take the stage of the Ariston Theater.
Notes, clothing, hairstyles, gags, super guests, presenters and presenters create debate and factions of supporters or detractors. Music makes its way between flowers and controversies giving voice to complex issues. In addition to being a container that offers a cross -section of the costume of our society, the stage of the Festival also becomes the sounding board of themes of considerable psychological relevance.
We will try to browse among the texts and performances of the artists to find Reflections on the psychic world and on relationships.
Psychological themes in the Top Five
We start from an analysis of the songs that have conquered the podium and the first positions.
Balorda nostalgia by Olly
The song that wins the seventy -five edition of the Festival speaks of the meloncholy and the nostalgia that the memories color at the end of a relationship. A love that ends It leaves bittersweet traces in memory, creating oasis in which it can be painfully pleasant to take refuge.
With the same title, Italo Calvino published a work that, through a series of stories, explored memory and memories with a journey in childhood and adolescence.
Olly’s is not the only song to deal with the issues of a love story at the terminus or, more generally, of couple relationships, great protagonists of each edition.
The cure for me Di Giorgia faces a tormented story with the spectrum of solitude in the background.
Amarcord By Sarah Toscano talks about a story ended and never blossomed. The title is quoting Felliniana, a word that entered the national lexicon to indicate an sweet and sour memory that derives from Romagna “to M’arcord”, that is, “I remember”.
With SlowlyInstead, Irama describes a decline relationship and speaks of emotions connected to a relational crisis.
I call I call you Di Gaia, describes a story in which schemes repeat between apologies and returns that create frustration, while The Kolors, with the usual light light -heartedness, in You with whom you make love They speak of a flirtation without too many implications, an occasional relationship to be played.
Finally, with Young unconsciousAchille Lauro takes us to the world of teenage relationships. Intense up to self -destructiveness, crazy, rebellious and convinced of being dressed in eternity. The passing time changes the perspectives and remodel, perhaps, unconsciousness.
I wanted to be a hard by Lucio Corsi
The real pearl of the 2025 festival ranks second and wins my critics prize from Mia Martini. The Maremma singer -songwriter arrives at Ariston after concerts and apprenticeship in the independent environment.
A sensitive soula kind, fabulous, ironic and poetic presence that presents itself on the most glam stage in Italy with clothes already used in previous occasions and self -produced.
The text of the song offers a series of opposing metaphorssymbols of image and identity. On the one hand, wanting to be a tough, a black spitting belt, drug dealer, king of the square capable of barrel, on the other the white judo belt, the child who falls from the trees and ends up having the eyes made up by the barrels.
A ballad that celebrates normalitythe possibility of embracing one’s fears to make the authenticity of one’s self shine as light. A normal fragility that is theopposite of the Machism And of being hard, performing, perfect required by our society.
The white deer with which the Tuscan singer -songwriter shows up on the stage recalls at the same time the trick of the Kiss and Rockstar 70s and that of Pagliacci and Masks. The latter are often tormented figures that must appear with a smile, but that inside have a sea of fragility, pain and melancholy.
In the words of the text we read an invitation to live one’s normality looking for, in making one’s best and not in perfection, the true and deeper realization. “The moons without holes are rips”, reminds us of in this regard.
The duet with mouse gigio on the notes of Fly To remember Modugno (first historical voice of the puppet loved by young and old), a further proof of poetic skill.
The tree of the walnuts of Brunori Sas
The Calabrian singer -songwriter proposes an intimate reflection on his own Experience of becoming a parent and paternity. In the passage he talks about how the arrival of his daughter Fiammetta represented a revolution in his emotional and value world forcing him to redesign the boundaries of love and happiness.
Fedez beat
Fedez was one of the most anticipated characters on the Ariston stage, considered the intertwining of lives, stories and relational pains that generated between gossip and dissing after the end of his marriage.
The rapper brought a text fromdistressing atmosphere Which speaks of depression, mental malaise and fragility. Fedez’s song openly hints at the use of psychotropic drugs, with the quote on fluoxetine and on the effects experienced during use. In the text, in a particularly delicate passage, we speak of “poison”.
The theme of the pharmacological treatment of mental malaise is in fact very complex. Often people fear it for side effects and alleged dependence. For this reason, it is worth remembering that the decision about the need for the prescription of the drugs is prerogative of the doctorpreferably if specialist (psychiatrist).
Nobody is pleased to take drugs but, in some cases, they can allow you to have access faster to resources momentarily limited by the discomfort produced by anxiety or depression. Consult your doctor And follow the signs As for any necessity, administration, dosage, method of suspension and doses of pharmacological treatment, it can represent a fundamental step of the healing process.
Supply a psychotherapeutic or psychological support path to drugs when necessary, it can be further support in making us resume the usual vital “beat”, a sign of emotional well -being.
When you are small by Simone Cristicchi
Another musical and poetic caress in the Sanremo review. Cristicchi tells a delicate passage in a child’s life: the Old age of parents And the need to assist them when disease and difficulty transform existential features.
The Roman singer -songwriter describes the life of the mother marked by a cerebral hemorrhage who stole her memory, transforming her into a fragile girl to take care of at just 63 years of age.
The theme of assistance to elderly parents is always of greater topicality. There Fatigue compassionthe emotional weight, the practical and economic difficulties weigh on many families making particularly complex care and assistance. Net of the criticisms, Cristicchi must be recognized the courage to bring attention to an important theme such as that of caregiving to people with dementia.
Psychology out of the Top Five
Also in the songs from sixth to twenty -ninth place there are interesting themes from a psychological point of view. On our “analytical” journey through the festival seen by the psychologist’s bed, we particularly underline that ofanxiety (very cited) and relationships threatened and influenced by social networks.
Hearts of Coma_cose
Summer catchphrase rhythm and easily spent gestures as social choreography do not deceive. Under the commercial dress of the music, the text of the duo speaks of reports to the time of the smartphone. “A sofa and two phones is the tomb of love” is the provocation on which the public is called to reflect before leaving in the vortex of the “hearts”. The beginning of the song also introduces the theme of anxiety, a deregulated variant of the fear that presents itself in the absence of a concrete threat. It is an emotion very present in the lyrics of the songs of the event, which is also mentioned in the song of The Kolors and in If you fall in love you die by Noemi. In this case, it is the silences of a relationship that generate the mood.
Because Sanremo is Sanremo
After the so much criticized latest editions, worthy of having brought to the limelight themes related to the genre, the atmosphere of the edition of Carlo Conti did not however save food for thought interesting psychological key.
Loved or criticized, followed or snubbed, the Sanremo Festival remains an important space in which themes of great psychological, social and cultural relevance can be brought to the fore. It is not easy to identify them in scores that more and more often adapt to the need for simplicity and lightness that social networks and commercial world impose.
However, the Sanremese week remains a showcase through which to observe a cross -section of society. Between extravagant clothes, provocative looks, original performances influenced by fantasy scores, important political themes bleed to make room. Among these, that relating to psychological distress is increasingly present.
Ift and brain dialogue, with the first that has psychological effects shown on the second and can exercise a key role in finding one’s well -being. Perhaps also for this reason the festival has been continuing for over seventy years, to fascinate, divide and combine public, criticism, insiders and lovers of entertainment and melody. Because Sanremo is Sanremo!
