Orietta Berti: ” With Fedez and Lauro I go to ‘Mille’, Sanremo with them? You never know … ”

Orietta Berti at ‘Mille’ between Fedez and Achille Lauro in the long-awaited video of what promises to be the hit of summer 2021. In a light-hearted atmosphere reminiscent of the early 60s, Cavriago’s nightingale, dressed in eccentric clothes including a very flashy fuchsia suit with the now famous shirt with shells that she also wore in Sanremo, she sings the chorus of the song with her inimitable voice, the same one that enchanted the Ariston audience back in 1970 when the singer participated in the Festival with the unforgettable ‘As long as the boat goes’. In the video Fedez sitting at the hairdresser, starts the song with a magazine in his hand with the words ‘Orietta Berti is back’. Next to the rapper is Achille Lauro with curlers on his head and with the same magazine in his hand. The two look at each other defiantly because they both dream of crashing into the mega party organized by Berti in her huge villa with swimming pool. The video ends with a photo of the cover of the song, a painting created by the artist Francesco Vezzoli and which seems to be inspired by Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Pre-Raphaelite painting. But Orietta did not come back because she never left: ” I did many things parallel to my career, I was a columnist on television, I wrote a book and I went to Sanremo. Now I’m going to present the new Disney movie ‘Luca’, where I have a small part. I will give a voice to a lobster that comes out of the water and takes on human form and never wants to go back to the bottom of the sea. I’ll be Concetta Aragosta who when she comes out of the water is a beautiful lobster but then starts eating sweets and ice cream and I become a tank ”, Berti tells Adnkronos bursting into laughter. ” The song is by Fedez who sings the entire first part in rap – he explains – when I listened to it he told me: ” You must sing it as you have always sung, you must not imitate anyone, with joy in your voice and in the throat because it is a summer song that has to cheer up the spirits of people who have been locked in the house for months. ‘Mille’ – continues the singer – is a song that gives a sense of joy, a sense of serenity, like when you open the window and you already know that the day has started well ”. Berti says she worked very well with Fedez and Lauro: ” I am two real gentlemen, I was there among some guys who could be my children. I had known Achille for several years because we have the same designer in common, instead I knew Fedez as an artist and I saw him many times when he came to Fabio (Fazio, ed) where we always greeted each other behind the scenes ”. Achille he has this Roman irony, he always has the joke ready – unveil – Fedez created everything, the idea of ​​this whole thing was his. I was very happy to participate in this project too, every time you sing a song you get excited and an artist must be able to reinvent herself because this always makes you stay young ”, says the singer with enthusiasm. When asked if she would like to go to the Sanremo festival with Fedez and Achille Lauro, Berti admits: “ You never know … even this song was born in an unexpected way. When I met Fedez in Sanremo he told me: ‘Look, I have a song for the summer, it seems to suit your voice, if you don’t like it, I’ll do one for the autumn’, but I really liked it there. for there it seemed like a joke but Fedez kept his word ”, he concludes. (by Alisa Toaff)