@@alicanteyt bro prima di esultare assicurati che le tue canzoni siano quantomeno ascoltabili. Oltre ai testi scadenti, se tolgo l'auricolare sinistro non sento più la chitarra. """è 1 canzone roch , 1 ipinto di Monè, è tt cio ke c'è"""😂
@@diegopetracca9639 il punto è proprio quello, nessuno ti ha detto di togliere l'auricolare sinistro... poi il titolo del video dice 2007!! lyrics video è ironicamente destinato a essere inteso come quei lyrics video amatoriali fatti da ragazzini annoiati su canzoni d'amore alquanto deprecabili, ma che li facevano emozionare e volevo onorare quei ragazzi ormai maturati e cresciuti con quei miei errori sgrammaticati... ma qui siamo sotto il commento di un uomo che è onorato che l'Italia rappresentata da un gruppo rock sia stata valutata da un ragazzo senza capelli, quindi non devo spiegare il senso dei miei mixini scrausi, ma rendere onore ai maneskin che hanno saputo arrivare fino a qui, fino a questo video che è sempre un'opinione di fantano, che è sempre divertente, che non ci toglie i peccati mondani che ogni giorno commettiamo... siamo qui per non pensare... quindi ti perdono se non ti piace quello che ho fatto, spero tu possa perdonare me per la lunghezza di questa risposta, sei un grande! un abbraccio alicante, non il dj famoso...
When I heard they won Eurovision I thought we were gonna get a new revolution of rock. Then I heard their song with Tom Morello. Then I realized their biggest song is a cover. Then I listened to the album. No rock revolution for us
I think they were given a lot of pressure to appeal to the American market. I can’t explain how I feel about this album, it’s definitely not something I would go back to. I still have three of their Italian language tracks on my replay.
If you listen to this album and aren’t sure how to feel about it, I worry for you. It’s so painfully lame and embarrassing. I would feel shame if this was playing in my car and my windows were down at a stop light.
The ONE time someone from Italy becomes famous doing something kinda cool (even if not revolutionary) they immediately change and turn into the funhouse version of themselves
@@freval2493 it dipends, there are a lot of american song that are better than a lot of italian music. And i'm italian so i know what i'm talking about. Let's make an example, let's say you want to listen some sad music, we can all agree that XXXTENTACION's muisc is sadder than italian singer ULTIMO becouse in America the songs are more explicit and hit different. But this is my personal opinion, if you want to share yours, feel free to respond this comment. Peace ✌
Abba came out of Eurovision and they were incredible. These jamooks deserved to win that year for sure. They haven’t exactly proved themselves to be that interesting outside of that win though.
All of their songs in english sound like their pandering to some group that I don't even know exists. It's a shame because some of their original material in Italian sounded decent.
lyrically and vocally, their material is better in italian. their previous album (teatro d'ira vol 1) was all in italian and those songs are what got me into the band. as a huge fan, this album disappointed me a bit. i didn't hate it, but i wished they retained more of their original sound.
The group they're pandering to is middle-aged Italian women who want to be "down with the youth" but also ~are too squeamish to listen to actual rap~ wanna "rock". Oh and who are also lusting after Damiano
Just a note on the fact that you mentioned about them coming out of X-Factor: unfortunately, if you want to blow up in Italy, that is practically the only way to do it. Also because you can only go to the Eurovision if you win the Sanremo Festival, to which you can't participate unless you're already pretty established. There are other ways but it's always via contests.. Basically the music industry/ music scene in Italy goes forward through contests and competitions, so I really wouldn't criticise them for that
May depend by what do you intend with "to blow up in Italy" with music. If you mean to be famous without real talent or long life career, ok tv is the solution to be aired at the city mall cableradio and idolatred for nothing. But this is not a music career, this is a fake dream. This is not music, is a empty product. Music business is not Fk*n sanremo or f*kn xfuc*tor.
Bah, gli artisti italiani più ascoltati negli ultimi 10 anni sono: sfera ebbasta, Guè, salmo, tha sup, Marracash, Gemitaiz, Lazza, capo plaza, ultimo e rkomi. Se contiamo Sanremo come un contest ne sono passati 3 su 10, anche se Lazza e rkomi erano già ascoltati prima di Sanremo, di quei 10 solo Ultimo è uscito da un talent. Sei rimasta indietro a una ventina di anni fa insomma
I really liked what they were doing when they came onto the scene. Damiano has a nice, raspy voice. The lyrics were playful and tongue-in-cheek. I don't know what the hell happened. The lyrics are either cringey or out of touch. Damiano's voice is drowned in autotune, which makes no sense because he can actually sing. This album took everything likeable about them and tossed it in the trash, which is really unfortunate. Hopefully it's just a bump in the road :/
It's just them trying to, unfortunately, take the American market. But also, don't think there's a lot of autotune on his voice. I haven't seen the album performed live, but I have seen the singles and previous music live and that's how he sounds. Could be different for the rest of the album though
As someone who really enjoyed their Eurovision winning track (Zitti E Buoni), their nosedive since then has been kinda sad to see. I never had them down as the next Foo Fighters or something, like absolute rock megastars, but they sounded like a fun and anarchic garage rock throwback band, campy and catchy kinda like The Darkness or something. I mean, the mere fact they entered Eurovision, the most campy and cheesy music contest on the planet, and won? That should tell you what their appeal is. Whoever decided they should be pushed as the next breakthrough mainstream rock act has utterly failed them. Lame covers, Tom Morello features, and goddamn MAX MARTIN on songwriting and production credits? It's not just that the attempt for crossover success was ill-judged to begin with, but it was done badly to boot. Can you imagine Lordi winning Eurovision in 2006 with a ridiculously over the top hard rock/heavy metal banger, then immediately trying to shoot for crossover mainstream appeal by taking away what made them interesting to begin with? Yeah, good luck with that. Shame. I kinda hope once the hype and fallout from this record has died down and they've faded from public consciousness, they realise the shot at the big time is over and just go back to writing fun garage rock jams again. At least they were having fun with that, and were more fun to listen to.
I knew they were gonna take a nosedive when they spent months living in LA. I don't know who told them they needed to make mediocre songs in English to appeal to an American audience, since plenty of Americans were already loving their first two albums. Major glow down.
@@sara61696 if anything it sounds surprisingly more bri'ish than murrican, it's like Måneskin picked on every surface-level feature of the bands they personally enjoy from IDLES to Franz Ferdinand, from The Vines (I know they're Australian) and The Hives (I know they're Swedish) to Palaye Royale and The Struts.
måneskin's music before being signed was so authentic and organic. they were kids that happened to be from italy that just so happened to love writing music and they did it well. their italian songs were poetic but didn't feel melodramatic, and even to a non-italian speaker you could tell there was a story being told. their english songs were great; the band knew how to have fun without compromising their distinct style. their music was rich with layers of instruments and vocals and a production style that was truly their own. you could hear a few seconds of a song and say "yep, that's måneskin." they got signed to a major label (an american one, i might add) and now all these hollywood people write and produce their music, chose the themes, and manufacture their brand. and it shows. the stylistic changes between albums like chosen and teatro d'ira and what we have now with rush can't just be attributed to their "growth as a band" or "change in taste." it reeks of a label cashing in on the "edgy" crowd they know makes them money without getting to know måneskin as people and as artists. their instruments and vocals are now flat, their rhythm quantized, and their lyrical content cliche, predictable, and transparent. you know these songs were made by people sitting in a boardroom, not by a group of young ones with something to say. not anymore. not to mention, teatro d'ira was a volume 1. now we may never know how the series continues because the label made them put out rush. måneskin is great when they are allowed to do what they want, not when they are pigeon-holed into what the industry thinks sells. they lost me after i heard mammamia for the first time. it was obvious that the label wanted another IWBYS and i knew that the music wouldn't be the same afterwards. then i was proven right when i heard supermodel, the loneliest, and whatever came out before and after that. i fell in love with måneskin for the stories they told, the causes they believed in, and their incredible knack for creating a mood that was uniquely theirs. now their music sounds like everything else the industry synthesizes to generate revenue. i hope in the long term they realize this and move forward with their creative visions, uninterrupted by the demands of a label that mishandles their art and their name. i was so excited to see how they would use the resources they'd be granted by a record contract, but i'm sad to see how their label now sees *them* as a resource, as a means to an end; not artists, not people, but a cheap image of "rebellion" that only a corporate structure could think is relatable.
@LUMINEI i know them since their first album. At the beginning they had some decent ballads but nothing new or original. A lot of marketing, and covers, and basic ideas. But yeah, they became even worse when they tried to do some fake punk-rock tracks. But honestly there was nothing really special in them since the very beginning, just too much adv.
Their music wasn't authentic nor organic. The just made standard italian storytelling-ballads with some rock in it. A song like "Torna a casa", a single from their first album, has nothing new if put in the italian musical panorama: listen to people like Ultimo, Fabrizio Moro or Ermal Meta, they evoke the same, imo shallow, feelings. Even their audiences overlap. No funky guitars though, thats so different and fresh! The true, different, impactful change was the aesthetic of it all: good dressing choices, a sexy frontman with an interesting voice and, again, the revolution of playing a guitar.
They're pretty young. I hope that with time and experience they eventually end up somewhere stylistically meaningful or interesting. They're making bank now, that's for sure.
He's been quiet because The New CALassic was so perfect and brilliant that nothing else he could release would ever come close to its greatness. It was truly the gold standard of modern music. Nevermind? Garbage. The Chronic? Terrible. TPAB? Are you crazy? Kendrick wishes he could come out with a record as stellar as The New CALassic.
ottima recensione signor Melone, tuttavia non capisco come mai hai proseguito per 5 minuti buoni a spiegare perché la Meloni (che, guarda caso, ha il tuo stesso nome) sia idonea per salire al governo. vabbè, dai nonostante tutto complimenti e continua così il tuo lavoro!
They are literally Rome's own Greta Van Fleet, this score was to be expected. Still, Melon, you should reeeally check out other Italian acts (Iosonouncane, as others suggested is a good starting point)
That’s crazy… mike? I remember being out at a bar in hartford that same night, and i came here to confess the exact same thing. You left out that we both actually ran a train on mr fantano, but regardless i’m happy to rekindle with you two here.
Why are Maneskin fans so sensitive regarding the review and comments section?! Fantano has slaughtered albums I like, and that’s cool with me it’s just his opinion at the end of the day.
I agree that their lyrics are not the best, but I still find their songs to be pretty catchy and enjoyable. Personally i wanted more high energy songs in italian like "zitti e buoni" but overall I would say I'm satisfied with their work.
I haven't heard too many of their songs, But I could definitely get behind more songs like "Zitti E Buoni", Certainly my favourite I've heard from them.
Måneskin fan here. Honestly I thought this album was pretty mid. Their previous album was fantastic, and I feel like they're at their best when they're making songs in Italian. My favorite songs off their new album are the ones in Italian. Il dono della vita is my favorite, and like you said la fine is good.
Hard work, this Is the reason! you're used to singers who make a hit every year or two and then enjoy their holidays around the world, full of money doing nothing with autotuned singing and songwriters available.
@@jeanrenault9865 a maneskin concert? They'd have to pay me to do such thing. Psst, concerts don't change the fact that they don't even write their own songs anymore (and when they do those are the worst ones).
@@arielpagliero9619 The front man Is a great songwriter and most of the songs are written by him including italian songs. Pssst If you dont like them i dont care, If you dont go to a concert its Not my problem Goodbye
It's kinda sad because I like their aesthetic and stage presence. And although the songs on teatro d'ira weren't revolutionary by any standards I actually really enjoy the album, it's a fun listen. Now it just feels like they're trying to remake I Wanna Be Your slave over and over again
@@veryfinan5187 music and genres have always had associated looks to it, this is nothing new. maybe you think it is exaggerated because of social media but really, looks have been integral to mainstream music since forever
@@tehlion7430 I mean yeah but in the past it wasn’t JUST looks that garnered your success. This band is a good example of how it’s not that way anymore. Horrible songs, beginner-level musicianship but the members were blessed with the genetic lottery so they get to be famous and rich, while mountains of underground bands who are better in every way go unnoticed because they weren’t god’s beautiful gift to the earth.
Gen Z usually avoids classic rock like the plague and they have a multitude of reasons to do so, but as a consequence they now think Maneskin, Greta Van Fleet and MGK are groundbreaking.
@@turboshazed7370 Greta Van Fleet are great musicians, no doubt. It’s the songwriting that’s kinda meh. Also, for some of their first recordings it was very questionable that they were copying every little nuance about Led Zeppelin’s playing and writing style. It was uncanny, and that comes from someone who liked Jet and Airborne when they first started.
Given how classic rock has been an overexploited formula for a long time, perhaps other ways of making rock such as indie, alternative or fusion are the best way for the scene to conquer Gen Z. For example, Haim, Florence + The Machine and Brittany Howard.
Feels more that they had to put it out just to cash in riding the Eurovision momentum, definetely a sharp nosedive from the previous "Teatro D'Ira" album, shame
It has ended ok, it's still better than what happened to 99% of Eurovision winners, let's face it, they were never going to be the new ABBA or the saviours of rock (to achieve that they need to bend the knee to a particular social network engineers so they can make their every song go "organically" viral).
As much as I enjoyed their previous stuff, especially Damiano's singing, this album just didn't do it for me. It feels like they switched from mostly Italian songs plus some English to mainly English songs to pander to the American market and something got lost in that transition...
Thanks Anthony for the honest review. Here in Italy every critique and reviewer is a kiss asser for the band (with the excpetion of Enrico Silvestrin, to be fair. The man eventually got all the hate sadly). I really needed this
Quantocecapisco No but in all seriousness, I really don’t understand the praise for something already done thirty years ago, but I guess we’re always goin to be late in everything
It's either that or that incredibly dumb critique they're getting because someone somewhat relevant in the music world is saying that "screaming isn't music", as if they were a powerviolence band. Stuff like this is why I don't listen to Italian records outside of the underground.
As an Italian, I can't stand Maneskin and all the people who are excusing their success because "at least it's not trap!, lol" or "you're just envious of their success!"... no. No, God, no. It's a terrible, childish, gimmicky band that makes look Machine Gun Kelly pop punk sound like Ligeti ffs... okay, I exaggerated here, but you get the point. It's nice to see someone criticizing them.
I'm italian and I don't like them, so I'm not disagreeing on the video as a whole, but I'd just like to point out that I think that you kind of missed the point on the whole "mamma mia" thing: NOBODY in Italy seriously uses it as an expression, I think it was chosen as a title for a track mainly as a joke, and not because "they're italian" like you seem to point out.
I can guarentee you this exact same comment verbatim has been made at least a hundred times (probably thousands) on fantano videos throughout the years
Italian here. Thought I'd share my perspective on this band. When it won Sanremo, I had liked Zitti e Buoni, for the most part. Lyrics were trite and cringe, which is sadly the standard for mainstream Italian music, but the music and vocals were pretty good. It was definitely nice to see these guys win Sanremo, rather than the interchangeable pop crap that usually wins. No masterpiece, but it was a fun change of pace for Italian music. Not a giant step, but something. After that, everything else they released I found annoying and disappointing. Lyrics never improved and the music got worse and worse. Beggin', especially, was such shit. Coraline was probably the only exception. It kind of kept my hopes up a little. Probably their best lyrics (though nothing amazing) and musically it was alright. But, boy, did they jump DEEP into the whole "we're selling ourselves and not our music" spyral. As their popularity has increased, the effort put into their music has steadily declined. MAMMAMIA is truly awful and such a transparent effort to 1) appeal to English markets who romanticize my country to a pathetic degree, without knowing much about it and 2) make Italians proud of their baby prodigies. Bottom line, I think the band has potential but they're squandering it more and more. And they don't seem INTENTIONED to make poignant music, they're just being stereotypical rockstars. Which might seem fine to some, but it depressed the fuck out of me because I though music had gone beyond that and because, once again, Italy is acting proud about doing something that the US literally did thousands of times before in the past 50 years. We are so behind on everything, when it comes to mainstream art production. It's embarassing.
I thin the more simpler explanation is that you are not their target audience. They have had such success with this album, their concerts had 6 hour queues here, heck the song you said is "truly awful" is the favorite of a lot of people I know. Just because you "dont get it" and are not into it is not always the fault of the artist
Honestly as someone who doesn’t normally listen to Rock music, I really got into it with their “Teatro d’ira”album (which is amazing btw) but this one felt a little boring and lackluster
this makes me so happy. if we say ANYTHING bad about this band in Italy we immediately get cast as haters. they are so bad. not even gloria van fleet were this derivative and shallow
It's obvious they wanted to play around with different sounds, work with a historically pop producer, and just make upbeat catchy music. They weren't trying to make anything serious or the like with this album, and I don't think Anthony realizes this. BLA BLA BLA is very punk, many love many hate it, but gasoline and la fine are wayy more their style with glaring bass and anger. You may hate the more popular generic route, but this wasn't supposed to be the resurgence of rock, rather a fun side project describing life since Eurovision. The next album, Teatro d'ira II (already completed) will have way more meaningful and clever songs. Hell even damiano said english songs weren't meant to be anything, rather just fun to play.
you do realise it's possible to make non-serious, upbeat catchy pop music that's actually GOOD? Also bla bla bla has some of the worst lyrics i ever heard. Is that the song with the line "i use my left hand cause it feels like you"?
i can almost never agree with your overall opinions on rap and rock albums, but it's always interesting to see how my taste compares to yours. I just love the energy of this band that gets carried all the way through this album, can't comment on the lyrics though and it never feels worth it lol.. It is weird that from 50 songs or whatever they said they wrote, no great lyricism caught your eye. I would just say they definitely wanted to cover different types of rock and have said themselves they didn't shoot for cohesion, saying that every song was the direction one of the members wanted to go in and they all just did it.. Hopefully they can improve on their sound in terms of really capturing a unique style or improving on past versions of rock instead of mimicking in your eyes, but I'll keep listening to them because they make me the most excited I've been for rock music in a while
I recently gave this band an honest chance. I saw that they had become quite popular (I don't give a shit about popularity in music but it can sometimes be valid) and I heard someone that I semi-trust mention them so I was like...I'll try out a few of their songs just to see what the fuss is about....holy shit....they are awful.....
Hi from Italy. I was wondering if you would even consider reviewing this record. These songs feel so simple and basic on all levels that it's hard to find anything compelling about any of them. I think the band's greatest asset is their enthusiastic, energetic vibe, especially when playing live. There's an exhilarating quality about their music that is extremely engaging, almost on a physical, neurological level. It works like a good drug, you don't have to like it or appreciate it to enjoy it, it just gets you excited and puts you in a good mood. I wouldn't call myself a fan of their music, but I'm definitely a fan of the band. I just love these kids, they're so young, creatively naïve yet extremely dedicated and smart at the same time. I agree that La Fine is the best song on this album. Damiano writes much better in Italian and all their songs written in Italian sound more complex and interesting overall. That is also why I like their past albums better. Yet I still get a kick out of them, no matter how lame their songs are LOL
you know you don't have to be ashamed if you like them!!?? Who is this reviewer anyway? Is his opinion so important? The greatest artists in the past were not appreciated at all by the "experts", but they had that "je ne sais quoi" which translated in commercial success, you have just explained in your comment, so despite the haters they will succeed because there is something about them, their charm and their talent (despite what people say, I mean the voice is undeniable) makes them better than what is currently on the charts! Go and watch the review of the music producer Blake McLain to have a different perspective! Ciao!
@@moonshine9836 as I said, I'm a fan of the band. I always listen to every new release of theirs, and I have watched most of their interviews if not all of them. I just happen to like other genres better. Also, I listen to a lot of music, read lots of reviews, follow lots of musicians, magazines and channels about music. I've been following this channel for more than a decade now, it's just one of my favourite sources of information about music and new releases. I watched McLain's review of the album yesterday.
Melon thinks everyone should be as depressed as he is he is King Millennial and probably cries himself to sleep every night thinking about Climate Change. Italians should defend Maneskin because they are theirs and the music is fun and quality.
I don't like them but I think it's good for italians actually. I know a couple of fans and it made them interested in other italian bands, it's a good family friendly way to open to the market that hopefully will give other artists a chance to shine. etc.
This album is very forgettable. I preferred the songs in Italian because they seemed to break the monotonous dance formula with a 2000s rock aesthetic. I felt like “If Not For You” was more of an emo ballad than a grunge one. What Fantano calls a “tight” rhythm section I would call a flavorless and zombie-like Pro Tools one. I would’ve given it a 3/5 because I’m not feeling mean, but chances are that time will see it slide to more of a 2/5 score.
The radio has been gaslighting me about this band for two years; this was so satisfying to watch. I've thought they were awful from about the third time I had to hear their cover of a cover of a cover, and I have truly not understood the hype since then. I'll return to the crevasses with all of the weird rock bands that aren't commercially successful who are just doing it to make good music now
@@ace_fuego The radio for me is for when I’m in the car and just need my brain to clear out…mindless songs that take no brain cells to process, just beats I can hear and vocals I can ignore.
Legitimately embarrassing that old school "rock heads" and media would rather prop up this obvious gimmick band over the dozens of rock bands in the underground scene who are putting out great rock music today. Shows a serious lack of imagination and willingness to explore with a lot of these "classic rock" fans.
As a long time Rush fan, I've got to say I'm pretty disappointed with this comeback album, "Maneskin". The new drummer is nowhere near an ample replacement for Neil Peart and while I appreciate Geddy Lee singing in his native Canadian on "La Fine", his singing and lyric writing has really deteriorated with age. Think they should have called it a day with Clockwork Angels...
Say what you will, they’re really good performers live. I saw some glimpses at Lolapallozza and they were pretty cool in my opinion… Edit: I should clarify that I am not biggest fans of them, I tried listening to them lol. I am simply stating that they’re better live than recorded imo.
I agree, watched them live at the Coca Cola Music Experience festival in Madrid and the crowd loved them, the group's energy was great and you could tell everyone had a good time
gosh sorry, but your understanding of the Mark Chapman track is way off...the song does not focus solely on him, in fact he is only an example of how that kind of violence can manifest itself and how this can happen to anyone not only to famous people. Lyrics might be lower than your expectations in the "fun" tracks, but that brought you to dismiss other songs in such a way that it is disappointing. You did not even mention a track like Gasoline and the value of it, I mean a critique should be done at a different level and should be constructive. With the way you speak you are just creating a comfortable space for people to express hate in the comments and that is very sad. I hope my constructive opinion can be of help.
I would love to see you review more internationally recognized italian artists, but the more experimental and interesting like IOSONOUNCANE whose last album was crazy (IRA) and where the language barrier is non existent
It's weird, I really like the band (literally my favourite band rn) and the music on the album but I don't like the album that much. It's like an album of homages and singles with no cohesion. I really like most of the songs but some of the songs are a bit meh and are not really Maneskin songs and just them trying to be something else, like Blahblahblah and Kool Kids
The main problem i have with maneskin is that they're kind of childish in anything they do, kinda poserish as well. Their target is like teenagers from 13 to 18. I can't imagine adults listening to them really
Ikr They’re acting like a wannabe cool teens who were bullied last year, but grew up, changed style over summer and now acting out just to get attention Tiring to see
Honey, their song lyrics arent for kids. Most of their audience are people in their age - adult people. And you would be suprised that even much older people enjoy them.
They were one of the only bands from Eurovision that I actually took seriously and would be huge outside of their home country and they did which is cool to see and I loved their Italian songs more but I don't like their english songs as much.Of course they aren't going anywhere anytime soon due to their worldwide popularity and huge fanbase but it seems their crossover music into the States doesn't appeal to me.
I have to say I agree. Most annoying band at the moment. It's like Daniel Day Lewis playing a mock version of a self centred rock musician who believes his fake displays of androgynous notions are super revolutionary. Just add some more feathers and suede to make it believable.
I liked a lot of their early singles, even if it wasn’t anything out of the ordinary, I thought they still brought a lot of grit, rawness and energy to their music. I was happy to see a band from Italy finally make it in the states, and when I saw them live, they crushed it. But yeah, all that said, this album is not it. They didn’t have to rush into the English-speaking market like this. I still think they have potential, though. They just have to chill out and put a lot more thought into the next album.
While the lyrics are extremely off putting if you pay attention to them, im kinda fucking with the instrumentation and production a lot, some of the hooks are kinda catchy, and the melody/rhythm of them gets stuck in my head, but god they sound super pretentious with some of these lyrics like goddamn 😭 there are elements on this album that i love, but some that just bring the whole thing down by a lot, not sure how to feel about this one
I think Gen Z is just starved for rock music that we’ll take anything at this point. It just sucks all the bands that get handed to us are really shallow.
ok so. I enjoy Maneskin, like I don't mind them. I like seeing them around and they look like great fun live, but I don't listen to their music. Do I sing along and bob my head if their song comes up on the radio? Yes. Do I thing they are good musicians? Yeah, sure. Do I think they're worth my time and money and they offer something unique? Hell to the no. I'm sure their passion for music and what they do is one hundred percent genuine, hell I even used to hype them up when they were on the X Factor, at the time they felt like a breath of fresh air. Now that same air has been recycled in a 30 years old ac unit and it stinks. We need to open the windows. I don't know that becoming so famous so young was good for them. Fortunately they don't seem to be burned out just yet, an amazing feat for the two years they just had, but they are so devoid of meaning and content. They are beautiful rocking shells but everything they do is so derivative and unoriginal, they are to rock music what tik tok aesthetics are to 20th century subcultures. But I don't think it's worth it to actively hate on them either. They are a bunch of twenty years olds having the time of their lives, there's no harm in that. It's actually a pity their music isn't that good, otherwise they would truly be unstoppable. Also the "don't act like you don't know" at the end of Gossip's chorus is straight up ripped from Rihanna.
Idk why everyone is saying the album is so bad here. I REALLY liked the album. Obviously there were a few songs that were really bad like bla bla bla, mamamia, and kool kids but i thought the rest of the album was actually kind of great. I love time zone and baby said. There are a bunch of songs on there that are simply amazing. It doesn’t matter if it isn’t their original style. They literally said themselves they were experimenting.
You are just mad the band isn’t named Mëlonskin
I thought he was mad that the bands name wasnt foreskin
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Lol
Måneskin? More like Mïdskin amirite fellas 😂
@@TheHolySandwich ironically that was a Subwoolfer (Norway Eurovision act) joke
Italian watcher here. Watching Cal speaking Italian has been an earthshattering experience.
Real, im still recovering
Cercavo questo commento. In sette minuti sono diventato una persona diversa, senza più alcuna certezza.
‘non capisco la legge’ … ma che ha detto? 😂😂😂 esilarante
@@Ettore88 "a mia conoscenza tale legge non esiste"... Cal parla pure forbito 😂
So real I can't even process what I just heard.
As an italian, this feels great.
When their fans say their italian songs are so deep I wonder if they’ve ever read a book
I'm an Italian fellow too, and the answer is no, they have never read a book.
this is cringe asf to read lol
@@loveliescrushing so it's your comment
godo da dio
fr on god bro
It's an honor to see an Italian band reviewed and being roasted by the melon
e andiamooooooo
Antonio Fantano mio padre
onore nazionale (antonio fantano)
@@alicanteyt bro prima di esultare assicurati che le tue canzoni siano quantomeno ascoltabili. Oltre ai testi scadenti, se tolgo l'auricolare sinistro non sento più la chitarra. """è 1 canzone roch , 1 ipinto di Monè, è tt cio ke c'è"""😂
@@diegopetracca9639 il punto è proprio quello, nessuno ti ha detto di togliere l'auricolare sinistro... poi il titolo del video dice 2007!! lyrics video è ironicamente destinato a essere inteso come quei lyrics video amatoriali fatti da ragazzini annoiati su canzoni d'amore alquanto deprecabili, ma che li facevano emozionare e volevo onorare quei ragazzi ormai maturati e cresciuti con quei miei errori sgrammaticati... ma qui siamo sotto il commento di un uomo che è onorato che l'Italia rappresentata da un gruppo rock sia stata valutata da un ragazzo senza capelli, quindi non devo spiegare il senso dei miei mixini scrausi, ma rendere onore ai maneskin che hanno saputo arrivare fino a qui, fino a questo video che è sempre un'opinione di fantano, che è sempre divertente, che non ci toglie i peccati mondani che ogni giorno commettiamo... siamo qui per non pensare... quindi ti perdono se non ti piace quello che ho fatto, spero tu possa perdonare me per la lunghezza di questa risposta, sei un grande! un abbraccio
alicante, non il dj famoso...
This is a victory for me, my ex loved this band
Take that, Michael's Ex!
This level of petty is pretty funny.
@@ilovecody7514 gotta embrace it
Do they also like fantano
@@no.7822 I’m not sure but it’d be funny if she saw this comment
GRAZIE TESTA A MELONE SEI IL VERO ORGOGLIO ITALIANO 🇮🇹🍈
"Testa A melone"?
Testa DI melone!
Lo so rompo le balle e basta...
Ovviamente portiamo la merda vera all'estero ma pazienza. Fortunatamente viene recensita come dovrebbe, invece dei soliti lecchini italiani del cazzo
SIAMO FUORI DI MELONEEEE
SEEE MELONE UNO DI NOI
Capimiluni
“I feel like this is a kidz bop version of an IDLES song” holy shit the melon is brutal in this video
Straight up accurate
When I heard they won Eurovision I thought we were gonna get a new revolution of rock. Then I heard their song with Tom Morello. Then I realized their biggest song is a cover. Then I listened to the album. No rock revolution for us
Rock is dead 😔
@@xcx000 It's just taking a nap is all
black midi is all we have left for this genre
Rock Devolution
Rock is more successful than it has been in the past 10+ years.
I think they were given a lot of pressure to appeal to the American market. I can’t explain how I feel about this album, it’s definitely not something I would go back to. I still have three of their Italian language tracks on my replay.
As if the italian market was more exciting somehow.
@@joaquin5929 you might be surprised
If you listen to this album and aren’t sure how to feel about it, I worry for you. It’s so painfully lame and embarrassing. I would feel shame if this was playing in my car and my windows were down at a stop light.
@@flipdiesel9652 calm down man
@@whatr0 yo momma 🤷♂️
I know you probably hated Cal for awhile, but honestly I feel like you've struck the funniest balance of using him relatively recently
“Are you a munch?”
It makes me so happy seeing him so much again
I think he did the same thing at the start of last year. Used cal for a few weeks then nearly stopped completely for the rest of the year. Love cal
s tier pfp
@@aggonzalez8096 Real reason I watch his music reviews.
You can't just say "I cooka da meatball" over and over again and call it a review
I think he just did
The ONE time someone from Italy becomes famous doing something kinda cool (even if not revolutionary) they immediately change and turn into the funhouse version of themselves
Nah, they always sucked.
They were never revolutionary in the first place
@Vuoto Pneumatico Non Non they had a few nice italian tracks, now all of it sucks
@@bobajanfettsolo9143 agree
@hightensionhouse Thanks for reminding me my duties.
Italian imagine dragons
@@hunterlawless8835 nah bro im wrong maneskin is so much worse than imagine dragons
Every eurovision band are imagine dragons, or worse
Nah man Imagine Dragon are much better 🙅♂️🧢
Imagine dragons is a great pop band and maneskin is an amazing rock band
@@freval2493 it dipends, there are a lot of american song that are better than a lot of italian music. And i'm italian so i know what i'm talking about. Let's make an example, let's say you want to listen some sad music, we can all agree that XXXTENTACION's muisc is sadder than italian singer ULTIMO becouse in America the songs are more explicit and hit different. But this is my personal opinion, if you want to share yours, feel free to respond this comment. Peace ✌
I can't believe something born out of Eurovision ended up so bad. Truly one of the moments of all time.
Such a moment fr
Abba came out of Eurovision and they were incredible. These jamooks deserved to win that year for sure. They haven’t exactly proved themselves to be that interesting outside of that win though.
@@KnivingDispodia the lone exception since eurovision has been a thing
😂
@@KnivingDispodia abba was already famous I think
All of their songs in english sound like their pandering to some group that I don't even know exists. It's a shame because some of their original material in Italian sounded decent.
lyrically and vocally, their material is better in italian. their previous album (teatro d'ira vol 1) was all in italian and those songs are what got me into the band. as a huge fan, this album disappointed me a bit. i didn't hate it, but i wished they retained more of their original sound.
the same group that AJR panders to is my guess
The group they're pandering to is middle-aged Italian women who want to be "down with the youth" but also ~are too squeamish to listen to actual rap~ wanna "rock".
Oh and who are also lusting after Damiano
their English songs were written by American producers, so…
Just a note on the fact that you mentioned about them coming out of X-Factor: unfortunately, if you want to blow up in Italy, that is practically the only way to do it. Also because you can only go to the Eurovision if you win the Sanremo Festival, to which you can't participate unless you're already pretty established. There are other ways but it's always via contests.. Basically the music industry/ music scene in Italy goes forward through contests and competitions, so I really wouldn't criticise them for that
@@antonioamati_ and thats why they're "indie" and will never blow up internationally, which was more what Maneskin were striving for
@@antonioamati_ also they went on xfactor in 2017, which really is mid 2010s as you mentioned
May depend by what do you intend with "to blow up in Italy" with music. If you mean to be famous without real talent or long life career, ok tv is the solution to be aired at the city mall cableradio and idolatred for nothing. But this is not a music career, this is a fake dream. This is not music, is a empty product. Music business is not Fk*n sanremo or f*kn xfuc*tor.
@@ikkizof5865 lol
Bah, gli artisti italiani più ascoltati negli ultimi 10 anni sono: sfera ebbasta, Guè, salmo, tha sup, Marracash, Gemitaiz, Lazza, capo plaza, ultimo e rkomi. Se contiamo Sanremo come un contest ne sono passati 3 su 10, anche se Lazza e rkomi erano già ascoltati prima di Sanremo, di quei 10 solo Ultimo è uscito da un talent. Sei rimasta indietro a una ventina di anni fa insomma
I feel like Fantano's Italian pride makes this red flannel slightly harder
I really liked what they were doing when they came onto the scene. Damiano has a nice, raspy voice. The lyrics were playful and tongue-in-cheek. I don't know what the hell happened. The lyrics are either cringey or out of touch. Damiano's voice is drowned in autotune, which makes no sense because he can actually sing. This album took everything likeable about them and tossed it in the trash, which is really unfortunate. Hopefully it's just a bump in the road :/
Voice is terrible and grating
That's what happen when a passionate band becomes all of a sudden a product for the whole globe market
It's just them trying to, unfortunately, take the American market. But also, don't think there's a lot of autotune on his voice. I haven't seen the album performed live, but I have seen the singles and previous music live and that's how he sounds. Could be different for the rest of the album though
Autotune?! 🤣I think you have it in your ears. Or maybe in the brain.
Wait wait wait ur telling me they had likeable qualifies before? I thought they were just popular because they faked sniffing Charlie for attention
As someone who really enjoyed their Eurovision winning track (Zitti E Buoni), their nosedive since then has been kinda sad to see. I never had them down as the next Foo Fighters or something, like absolute rock megastars, but they sounded like a fun and anarchic garage rock throwback band, campy and catchy kinda like The Darkness or something. I mean, the mere fact they entered Eurovision, the most campy and cheesy music contest on the planet, and won? That should tell you what their appeal is.
Whoever decided they should be pushed as the next breakthrough mainstream rock act has utterly failed them. Lame covers, Tom Morello features, and goddamn MAX MARTIN on songwriting and production credits? It's not just that the attempt for crossover success was ill-judged to begin with, but it was done badly to boot. Can you imagine Lordi winning Eurovision in 2006 with a ridiculously over the top hard rock/heavy metal banger, then immediately trying to shoot for crossover mainstream appeal by taking away what made them interesting to begin with? Yeah, good luck with that.
Shame. I kinda hope once the hype and fallout from this record has died down and they've faded from public consciousness, they realise the shot at the big time is over and just go back to writing fun garage rock jams again. At least they were having fun with that, and were more fun to listen to.
Zitti e buoni was a banger but the music after took a weird turn indeed. Wasted potential after mainstream success, many such cases!
@@knottedtwig3289 it's not wasted, it was actually rushed as the title suggests
Yes this. Lordi just kept doing what they did and they're still soaring. Got their mf eigteenth album coming up in march
I knew they were gonna take a nosedive when they spent months living in LA. I don't know who told them they needed to make mediocre songs in English to appeal to an American audience, since plenty of Americans were already loving their first two albums. Major glow down.
@@sara61696 if anything it sounds surprisingly more bri'ish than murrican, it's like Måneskin picked on every surface-level feature of the bands they personally enjoy from IDLES to Franz Ferdinand, from The Vines (I know they're Australian) and The Hives (I know they're Swedish) to Palaye Royale and The Struts.
måneskin's music before being signed was so authentic and organic. they were kids that happened to be from italy that just so happened to love writing music and they did it well. their italian songs were poetic but didn't feel melodramatic, and even to a non-italian speaker you could tell there was a story being told. their english songs were great; the band knew how to have fun without compromising their distinct style. their music was rich with layers of instruments and vocals and a production style that was truly their own. you could hear a few seconds of a song and say "yep, that's måneskin."
they got signed to a major label (an american one, i might add) and now all these hollywood people write and produce their music, chose the themes, and manufacture their brand. and it shows. the stylistic changes between albums like chosen and teatro d'ira and what we have now with rush can't just be attributed to their "growth as a band" or "change in taste." it reeks of a label cashing in on the "edgy" crowd they know makes them money without getting to know måneskin as people and as artists. their instruments and vocals are now flat, their rhythm quantized, and their lyrical content cliche, predictable, and transparent. you know these songs were made by people sitting in a boardroom, not by a group of young ones with something to say. not anymore. not to mention, teatro d'ira was a volume 1. now we may never know how the series continues because the label made them put out rush.
måneskin is great when they are allowed to do what they want, not when they are pigeon-holed into what the industry thinks sells.
they lost me after i heard mammamia for the first time. it was obvious that the label wanted another IWBYS and i knew that the music wouldn't be the same afterwards. then i was proven right when i heard supermodel, the loneliest, and whatever came out before and after that. i fell in love with måneskin for the stories they told, the causes they believed in, and their incredible knack for creating a mood that was uniquely theirs. now their music sounds like everything else the industry synthesizes to generate revenue.
i hope in the long term they realize this and move forward with their creative visions, uninterrupted by the demands of a label that mishandles their art and their name. i was so excited to see how they would use the resources they'd be granted by a record contract, but i'm sad to see how their label now sees *them* as a resource, as a means to an end; not artists, not people, but a cheap image of "rebellion" that only a corporate structure could think is relatable.
hashtag free mäneskin
No Sorry. They have always been like that honestly
@LUMINEI i know them since their first album. At the beginning they had some decent ballads but nothing new or original. A lot of marketing, and covers, and basic ideas. But yeah, they became even worse when they tried to do some fake punk-rock tracks. But honestly there was nothing really special in them since the very beginning, just too much adv.
Their music wasn't authentic nor organic. The just made standard italian storytelling-ballads with some rock in it.
A song like "Torna a casa", a single from their first album, has nothing new if put in the italian musical panorama: listen to people like Ultimo, Fabrizio Moro or Ermal Meta, they evoke the same, imo shallow, feelings. Even their audiences overlap. No funky guitars though, thats so different and fresh!
The true, different, impactful change was the aesthetic of it all: good dressing choices, a sexy frontman with an interesting voice and, again, the revolution of playing a guitar.
They're pretty young. I hope that with time and experience they eventually end up somewhere stylistically meaningful or interesting. They're making bank now, that's for sure.
Glad Cal is back and you are letting him out of that closet in a very tasteful amount of time. It works.
Still waiting on that second album
He's been quiet because The New CALassic was so perfect and brilliant that nothing else he could release would ever come close to its greatness. It was truly the gold standard of modern music. Nevermind? Garbage. The Chronic? Terrible. TPAB? Are you crazy? Kendrick wishes he could come out with a record as stellar as The New CALassic.
Is Anthony an evil head of a record label? Is that the lore?
ottima recensione signor Melone, tuttavia non capisco come mai hai proseguito per 5 minuti buoni a spiegare perché la Meloni (che, guarda caso, ha il tuo stesso nome) sia idonea per salire al governo. vabbè, dai nonostante tutto complimenti e continua così il tuo lavoro!
la community italiana di theneedledrop ha raggiunto il suo picco quando l'estrema destra è salita al potere guarda caso
this is like the average melon fan comment but in italian, i love it
@@lotl6841 io direi di incominciare a creare una community fatta di commenti italiani sotto i suoi video
porcamado
@@blackline8 sarebbe meraviglioso
I like how I automatically knew the rating just by the title
I know it's bad bc even my friend, who's a Måneskin stan doesn't like it.
You mean a Måneskin stan or a "Beggin" stan?
@@mjuzumaki as an italian I can assure you maneskin stans exist
@@mjuzumaki they had other successful songs apart from Beggin'. And yes, people are capable of listening to more than the hits.
Yeah, I like them too but this album is bad. I think most of the fanbase is pretty disappointed by the lack of Italian songs
me too, i absolutely loved their last album but i feel like they completely scrapped what made them interesting on rush
They are literally Rome's own Greta Van Fleet, this score was to be expected. Still, Melon, you should reeeally check out other Italian acts (Iosonouncane, as others suggested is a good starting point)
La macarena su Roma is a golden record
I can assure you a lot of your Italian fans were waiting for this score
Eccoci
È ancora troppo alto il 2
Mio padre Fantano
eccola qua la pitchforkz gang
Presente
Fantano I love your content! I know you probably don’t remember me, but we hooked up at the gay bar on October 17th, 2007
That’s crazy… mike? I remember being out at a bar in hartford that same night, and i came here to confess the exact same thing. You left out that we both actually ran a train on mr fantano, but regardless i’m happy to rekindle with you two here.
I confirm i was the bar
this is such a weird coincidence but this is literally the exact day my little brother was born wtf 😭😭
@@faro8784 no such thing as coincidences
The singer of this band came to my birthday party when we were both 12 lol. Haven't spoken to him since tho
they have probably the biggest discrepancy between studio and live of any band i’ve ever seen. tremendous band to see play, unmemorable to stream
What's good about them live? They're so boring and flat energy wise
I've seen them twice and I really believe they use a backing track.
You have probably the biggest discrepancy between comment and reply I've ever seen @@ChristyJones-e9s
I can't describe it, but I always had a feeling Cal could speak fluent Italian. I don't know, it just makes sense to me.
Lmao. R u serious right neow
From the same creators of “Machine Gun Kelly is gonna save rock”, here it comes “Maneskin is gonna save rock”
Wait people thought mgk was gonna save rock???😭
Why are Maneskin fans so sensitive regarding the review and comments section?! Fantano has slaughtered albums I like, and that’s cool with me it’s just his opinion at the end of the day.
I agree that their lyrics are not the best, but I still find their songs to be pretty catchy and enjoyable. Personally i wanted more high energy songs in italian like "zitti e buoni" but overall I would say I'm satisfied with their work.
nu pot sa cred
PET type review
al meu scrie ca un robot
@@ownepic4618 coaie nu mai stiu engleza
I haven't heard too many of their songs, But I could definitely get behind more songs like "Zitti E Buoni", Certainly my favourite I've heard from them.
Måneskin fan here. Honestly I thought this album was pretty mid. Their previous album was fantastic, and I feel like they're at their best when they're making songs in Italian. My favorite songs off their new album are the ones in Italian. Il dono della vita is my favorite, and like you said la fine is good.
La Fine felt like a return to form for them. I hope the next album is better than this.
bro explain that album art
@@cyanpunch6140 Idk man. It was certainly a choice. That's all I can say.
Seriously, Im suprised of their success post-Eurovision. It’s something to be studied.
Hard work, this Is the reason! you're used to singers who make a hit every year or two and then enjoy their holidays around the world, full of money doing nothing with autotuned singing and songwriters available.
@@jeanrenault9865 psst! Can I tell you a secret?
On this record you'll find autotune and songwriters on almost every track.
@@arielpagliero9619 of course its a registered album, i talked about concerts.
Pssst, go to see a concert!
@@jeanrenault9865 a maneskin concert? They'd have to pay me to do such thing.
Psst, concerts don't change the fact that they don't even write their own songs anymore (and when they do those are the worst ones).
@@arielpagliero9619 The front man Is a
great songwriter and most of the songs are written by him including italian songs. Pssst If you dont like them i dont care, If you dont go to a concert its Not my problem Goodbye
Look Anthony, I know Rush isnt the same without the late Neil Peart, but giving them a 2 is a little harsh,no?
lol
No
Måneskin fans when they see that the melon gave Rush a negative review: *MAMMA MIA*
As a Måneskin fan, I actually give it a 2.5/5. Melon's pick for the worst song is one of my least favorites.
@@InkAndPoet says a lot about your music taste haha
@@benadrylcucumberman981 I'm not assuming your taste in music, so don't judge mine, hipster.
@@InkAndPoet a maneskin fan called me hipster ain’t no way bro hahaha
@@InkAndPoet also maneskin is trash please value yourself npc
"KOOL KIDS" literally sounds like a discount IDLES song I love it
I mean...fantano would be fawning over the same song had it been made by Viagra Boys
Even the accent lmao
It's kinda sad because I like their aesthetic and stage presence. And although the songs on teatro d'ira weren't revolutionary by any standards I actually really enjoy the album, it's a fun listen. Now it just feels like they're trying to remake I Wanna Be Your slave over and over again
That’s the problem with mainstream music. You have to have a pretty face and aesthetic. I wish people would focus on the music
@@veryfinan5187 music and genres have always had associated looks to it, this is nothing new. maybe you think it is exaggerated because of social media but really, looks have been integral to mainstream music since forever
@@tehlion7430 I mean yeah but in the past it wasn’t JUST looks that garnered your success. This band is a good example of how it’s not that way anymore. Horrible songs, beginner-level musicianship but the members were blessed with the genetic lottery so they get to be famous and rich, while mountains of underground bands who are better in every way go unnoticed because they weren’t god’s beautiful gift to the earth.
Gen Z usually avoids classic rock like the plague and they have a multitude of reasons to do so, but as a consequence they now think Maneskin, Greta Van Fleet and MGK are groundbreaking.
GFV kinda are compared to the other two
@@turboshazed7370 Greta Van Fleet are great musicians, no doubt. It’s the songwriting that’s kinda meh. Also, for some of their first recordings it was very questionable that they were copying every little nuance about Led Zeppelin’s playing and writing style. It was uncanny, and that comes from someone who liked Jet and Airborne when they first started.
@@luistijerina im with you on that
Given how classic rock has been an overexploited formula for a long time, perhaps other ways of making rock such as indie, alternative or fusion are the best way for the scene to conquer Gen Z. For example, Haim, Florence + The Machine and Brittany Howard.
I can see these guys touring with Greta Van Fleet at some point and then Boomers proclaiming that "rock music has been saved".
Feels more that they had to put it out just to cash in riding the Eurovision momentum, definetely a sharp nosedive from the previous "Teatro D'Ira" album, shame
As an italian i can say that Cal Chuchesta at 2:57 completely nailed it.
While Maneskin don't...
As an Italian, I'm just sad it ended this way. They had some potential.
Kudos for having literally the guts (pun intended) of blending Guts and GG D'Alessio together pal :D
@@LaZdiZorro gotta thank NaepolitanFreshChannel for the profile picture
@@gutsdalessio9722 ahaha si lo so ;)
It has ended ok, it's still better than what happened to 99% of Eurovision winners, let's face it, they were never going to be the new ABBA or the saviours of rock (to achieve that they need to bend the knee to a particular social network engineers so they can make their every song go "organically" viral).
Niente fessa, solo dolore
As much as I enjoyed their previous stuff, especially Damiano's singing, this album just didn't do it for me. It feels like they switched from mostly Italian songs plus some English to mainly English songs to pander to the American market and something got lost in that transition...
As an Italian, I'd like to apologise for Måneskin.
Isn't Melon himself also Italian?
@@Kalitayy He's Italian American
@@Kalitayy yes, the first minister Meloni's cousin
Grazie Antonio per questa bellissima recensione
I'm surprised he listened to this one enough times to be able to review it. This was a once and done for me.
I did NOT expect Cal Chuchesta to speak fluent Italian
Wow an Italian band with a name I can’t pronounce put out a bad project
I woulda never seen that coming
Is it only me that i think baby said wasn't that bad?
The nice thing about Maneskin is that sometimes you want to listen to a band where you’d definitely rail 75% of them
More like 100% of them 💀💀💀💀
blur (but in the 90s)
@@CoingamerFL goddamn thanks for making me google that
Maneskin is the new Nickelback.
In Italy everyone agrees with you
😭
😢
Thanks Anthony for the honest review. Here in Italy every critique and reviewer is a kiss asser for the band (with the excpetion of Enrico Silvestrin, to be fair. The man eventually got all the hate sadly).
I really needed this
Quantocecapisco
No but in all seriousness, I really don’t understand the praise for something already done thirty years ago, but I guess we’re always goin to be late in everything
It's either that or that incredibly dumb critique they're getting because someone somewhat relevant in the music world is saying that "screaming isn't music", as if they were a powerviolence band.
Stuff like this is why I don't listen to Italian records outside of the underground.
Anthony looks comprehensibly exhausted by the multiple listenings to this album. 😂
As an Italian, I can't stand Maneskin and all the people who are excusing their success because "at least it's not trap!, lol" or "you're just envious of their success!"... no. No, God, no.
It's a terrible, childish, gimmicky band that makes look Machine Gun Kelly pop punk sound like Ligeti ffs... okay, I exaggerated here, but you get the point. It's nice to see someone criticizing them.
The fact alone that Fantano actually did a video on this band is a success for them regardless of the mark.
Greetings from Italy.
i’ve never understood it they’ve always been the most obvious manufactured garbage, dunno why people act like they’re so authentic and cool
I'm italian and I don't like them, so I'm not disagreeing on the video as a whole, but I'd just like to point out that I think that you kind of missed the point on the whole "mamma mia" thing: NOBODY in Italy seriously uses it as an expression, I think it was chosen as a title for a track mainly as a joke, and not because "they're italian" like you seem to point out.
If this album was To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar it would’ve gotten a ten
Get a new joke
Also if it was The Money Store by Death Grips
@@Hal9000ize is this not a new joke i’ve never seen it
I can guarentee you this exact same comment verbatim has been made at least a hundred times (probably thousands) on fantano videos throughout the years
@@Hal9000ize Agreed, overused joke formula
Italian here. Thought I'd share my perspective on this band.
When it won Sanremo, I had liked Zitti e Buoni, for the most part.
Lyrics were trite and cringe, which is sadly the standard for mainstream Italian music, but the music and vocals were pretty good. It was definitely nice to see these guys win Sanremo, rather than the interchangeable pop crap that usually wins.
No masterpiece, but it was a fun change of pace for Italian music. Not a giant step, but something.
After that, everything else they released I found annoying and disappointing. Lyrics never improved and the music got worse and worse. Beggin', especially, was such shit.
Coraline was probably the only exception. It kind of kept my hopes up a little. Probably their best lyrics (though nothing amazing) and musically it was alright.
But, boy, did they jump DEEP into the whole "we're selling ourselves and not our music" spyral. As their popularity has increased, the effort put into their music has steadily declined.
MAMMAMIA is truly awful and such a transparent effort to 1) appeal to English markets who romanticize my country to a pathetic degree, without knowing much about it and 2) make Italians proud of their baby prodigies.
Bottom line, I think the band has potential but they're squandering it more and more. And they don't seem INTENTIONED to make poignant music, they're just being stereotypical rockstars.
Which might seem fine to some, but it depressed the fuck out of me because I though music had gone beyond that and because, once again, Italy is acting proud about doing something that the US literally did thousands of times before in the past 50 years.
We are so behind on everything, when it comes to mainstream art production. It's embarassing.
I thin the more simpler explanation is that you are not their target audience. They have had such success with this album, their concerts had 6 hour queues here, heck the song you said is "truly awful" is the favorite of a lot of people I know. Just because you "dont get it" and are not into it is not always the fault of the artist
@@karlhans8304exactly lol. I'm not a big fan of that song either but I can see it having a large audience.
Honestly as someone who doesn’t normally listen to Rock music, I really got into it with their “Teatro d’ira”album (which is amazing btw) but this one felt a little boring and lackluster
this makes me so happy. if we say ANYTHING bad about this band in Italy we immediately get cast as haters. they are so bad. not even gloria van fleet were this derivative and shallow
It's obvious they wanted to play around with different sounds, work with a historically pop producer, and just make upbeat catchy music. They weren't trying to make anything serious or the like with this album, and I don't think Anthony realizes this. BLA BLA BLA is very punk, many love many hate it, but gasoline and la fine are wayy more their style with glaring bass and anger. You may hate the more popular generic route, but this wasn't supposed to be the resurgence of rock, rather a fun side project describing life since Eurovision. The next album, Teatro d'ira II (already completed) will have way more meaningful and clever songs. Hell even damiano said english songs weren't meant to be anything, rather just fun to play.
Sure, excuses. Shit sucked.
you do realise it's possible to make non-serious, upbeat catchy pop music that's actually GOOD? Also bla bla bla has some of the worst lyrics i ever heard. Is that the song with the line "i use my left hand cause it feels like you"?
i can almost never agree with your overall opinions on rap and rock albums, but it's always interesting to see how my taste compares to yours. I just love the energy of this band that gets carried all the way through this album, can't comment on the lyrics though and it never feels worth it lol.. It is weird that from 50 songs or whatever they said they wrote, no great lyricism caught your eye. I would just say they definitely wanted to cover different types of rock and have said themselves they didn't shoot for cohesion, saying that every song was the direction one of the members wanted to go in and they all just did it.. Hopefully they can improve on their sound in terms of really capturing a unique style or improving on past versions of rock instead of mimicking in your eyes, but I'll keep listening to them because they make me the most excited I've been for rock music in a while
They aren't revolutionary but I do enjoy them for what they are. I hope the next album is better than this.
Wanna hear a couple of cool records dropped by Italian bands recently?
Voina, Elephant Brain and Gazebo Penguins all put out good records last year
Qui siamo in zona emocore pesante. Comunque confermo, i Gazebo sopratutto con Quanto hanno fatto un gran bel lavoro (prime 3 canzoni stupende).
@@tenson95 24 febbraio ci stanno Stormø e Riviera al Covo qui a Bologna dajeee
I recently gave this band an honest chance. I saw that they had become quite popular (I don't give a shit about popularity in music but it can sometimes be valid) and I heard someone that I semi-trust mention them so I was like...I'll try out a few of their songs just to see what the fuss is about....holy shit....they are awful.....
Hi from Italy. I was wondering if you would even consider reviewing this record. These songs feel so simple and basic on all levels that it's hard to find anything compelling about any of them.
I think the band's greatest asset is their enthusiastic, energetic vibe, especially when playing live. There's an exhilarating quality about their music that is extremely engaging, almost on a physical, neurological level. It works like a good drug, you don't have to like it or appreciate it to enjoy it, it just gets you excited and puts you in a good mood.
I wouldn't call myself a fan of their music, but I'm definitely a fan of the band. I just love these kids, they're so young, creatively naïve yet extremely dedicated and smart at the same time.
I agree that La Fine is the best song on this album. Damiano writes much better in Italian and all their songs written in Italian sound more complex and interesting overall. That is also why I like their past albums better. Yet I still get a kick out of them, no matter how lame their songs are LOL
you know you don't have to be ashamed if you like them!!?? Who is this reviewer anyway? Is his opinion so important? The greatest artists in the past were not appreciated at all by the "experts", but they had that "je ne sais quoi" which translated in commercial success, you have just explained in your comment, so despite the haters they will succeed because there is something about them, their charm and their talent (despite what people say, I mean the voice is undeniable) makes them better than what is currently on the charts! Go and watch the review of the music producer Blake McLain to have a different perspective! Ciao!
@@moonshine9836 as I said, I'm a fan of the band. I always listen to every new release of theirs, and I have watched most of their interviews if not all of them. I just happen to like other genres better.
Also, I listen to a lot of music, read lots of reviews, follow lots of musicians, magazines and channels about music. I've been following this channel for more than a decade now, it's just one of my favourite sources of information about music and new releases.
I watched McLain's review of the album yesterday.
Melon thinks everyone should be as depressed as he is he is King Millennial and probably cries himself to sleep every night thinking about Climate Change. Italians should defend Maneskin because they are theirs and the music is fun and quality.
As an Italian, I find it quite depressing to be represented worldwide by this band... I swear we have good music too
I'm not sure that we have good music nowadays....still a shame to be represented by Maneskin tho lol
grazie finalmente qualcuno capisce
@@alessandrogeirola we do, it just doesn't get commercial recognition :/
I don't like them but I think it's good for italians actually. I know a couple of fans and it made them interested in other italian bands, it's a good family friendly way to open to the market that hopefully will give other artists a chance to shine. etc.
Mi vengono in mente i Storm {O}. Così su due piedi!
This album is very forgettable. I preferred the songs in Italian because they seemed to break the monotonous dance formula with a 2000s rock aesthetic. I felt like “If Not For You” was more of an emo ballad than a grunge one.
What Fantano calls a “tight” rhythm section I would call a flavorless and zombie-like Pro Tools one.
I would’ve given it a 3/5 because I’m not feeling mean, but chances are that time will see it slide to more of a 2/5 score.
As an italian I personally cannot understand all the hype that this band has outside my country,I always thought they were pretty lame.
Outside italy people love rondo da sosa, that says it all
The radio has been gaslighting me about this band for two years; this was so satisfying to watch. I've thought they were awful from about the third time I had to hear their cover of a cover of a cover, and I have truly not understood the hype since then. I'll return to the crevasses with all of the weird rock bands that aren't commercially successful who are just doing it to make good music now
You know you don’t need fantanos aproval to dislike this band
You listen to the radio 0.o
The lead singer’s voice makes me want to rip off my ears
@@ace_fuego The radio for me is for when I’m in the car and just need my brain to clear out…mindless songs that take no brain cells to process, just beats I can hear and vocals I can ignore.
@@radiofreejenn0 I see. For me that's usually either vaporwave or lofi
Legitimately embarrassing that old school "rock heads" and media would rather prop up this obvious gimmick band over the dozens of rock bands in the underground scene who are putting out great rock music today. Shows a serious lack of imagination and willingness to explore with a lot of these "classic rock" fans.
I've seen nothing but hate for Maneskin from old school rock heads tbh.
Thank you for properly roasting the most overrated Italian band in a while.
Every review is shitting on this. I just finally listened to the album and enjoyed it LOL.
Yes…I heard The Loneliest on the radio in America heheh
Their complete desperation to appeal to an American audience is so pathetic takes away any appeal that they had
Unpopular opinion: i genuinely like the band and this album
It's so unpopular that it only got 6 likes lol
@@frengtterma4102 hahah yes!
It’s a very ‘feel good music’ kind of album imo. I agree that there’s not too much depth to it, but I still enjoy the hell out of it
As a long time Rush fan, I've got to say I'm pretty disappointed with this comeback album, "Maneskin". The new drummer is nowhere near an ample replacement for Neil Peart and while I appreciate Geddy Lee singing in his native Canadian on "La Fine", his singing and lyric writing has really deteriorated with age. Think they should have called it a day with Clockwork Angels...
This band is like the heaviest thing anyone who listens to NPR regularly will listen to. Nothing about their sound is unique.
Say what you will, they’re really good performers live. I saw some glimpses at Lolapallozza and they were pretty cool in my opinion…
Edit: I should clarify that I am not biggest fans of them, I tried listening to them lol. I am simply stating that they’re better live than recorded imo.
Che palle
@@MidnightTales rosse e gialle
I agree, watched them live at the Coca Cola Music Experience festival in Madrid and the crowd loved them, the group's energy was great and you could tell everyone had a good time
The car seat headrest record in the background is here to remind us what good music sounds like
gosh sorry, but your understanding of the Mark Chapman track is way off...the song does not focus solely on him, in fact he is only an example of how that kind of violence can manifest itself and how this can happen to anyone not only to famous people. Lyrics might be lower than your expectations in the "fun" tracks, but that brought you to dismiss other songs in such a way that it is disappointing. You did not even mention a track like Gasoline and the value of it, I mean a critique should be done at a different level and should be constructive. With the way you speak you are just creating a comfortable space for people to express hate in the comments and that is very sad. I hope my constructive opinion can be of help.
100% agree
Are you gonna review the new LUKAS GRAHAMMMM album?!
Leave it to Brad Taste
LUKAS GRAHAAAMMM!!
Maneskin is indie rock music for Gen Zs who paint their nails and think they’re genderfluid
I would love to see you review more internationally recognized italian artists, but the more experimental and interesting like IOSONOUNCANE whose last album was crazy (IRA) and where the language barrier is non existent
IRA amazes me every time I listen to it. It's a truly special album.
DIE for classic week
It's weird, I really like the band (literally my favourite band rn) and the music on the album but I don't like the album that much. It's like an album of homages and singles with no cohesion. I really like most of the songs but some of the songs are a bit meh and are not really Maneskin songs and just them trying to be something else, like Blahblahblah and Kool Kids
The cohesion is given by the representation of different types of toxic love. It is only my hypothesis, but I think quite founded.
This return of Cal has been most cromulent
idk what that means but i agree
@@why3994 according to Google dictionary, 'acceptable or adequate'
His appearance really embiggened this video
The main problem i have with maneskin is that they're kind of childish in anything they do, kinda poserish as well.
Their target is like teenagers from 13 to 18. I can't imagine adults listening to them really
Ikr
They’re acting like a wannabe cool teens who were bullied last year, but grew up, changed style over summer and now acting out just to get attention
Tiring to see
Honey, their song lyrics arent for kids. Most of their audience are people in their age - adult people. And you would be suprised that even much older people enjoy them.
They were one of the only bands from Eurovision that I actually took seriously and would be huge outside of their home country and they did which is cool to see and I loved their Italian songs more but I don't like their english songs as much.Of course they aren't going anywhere anytime soon due to their worldwide popularity and huge fanbase but it seems their crossover music into the States doesn't appeal to me.
Holy shit. Pitchfork and needle derp gave an album the same score. Am I in a parallel universe?
I don't know why I keep watching your videos. All of them are so infuriating to me.
This is so funny to read.
I have to say I agree. Most annoying band at the moment. It's like Daniel Day Lewis playing a mock version of a self centred rock musician who believes his fake displays of androgynous notions are super revolutionary. Just add some more feathers and suede to make it believable.
I liked a lot of their early singles, even if it wasn’t anything out of the ordinary, I thought they still brought a lot of grit, rawness and energy to their music. I was happy to see a band from Italy finally make it in the states, and when I saw them live, they crushed it. But yeah, all that said, this album is not it. They didn’t have to rush into the English-speaking market like this. I still think they have potential, though. They just have to chill out and put a lot more thought into the next album.
Well, in a way "Rush!" ended up being a wittier album title than any reviewer thinks.
While the lyrics are extremely off putting if you pay attention to them, im kinda fucking with the instrumentation and production a lot, some of the hooks are kinda catchy, and the melody/rhythm of them gets stuck in my head, but god they sound super pretentious with some of these lyrics like goddamn 😭 there are elements on this album that i love, but some that just bring the whole thing down by a lot, not sure how to feel about this one
I think Gen Z is just starved for rock music that we’ll take anything at this point. It just sucks all the bands that get handed to us are really shallow.
ok so. I enjoy Maneskin, like I don't mind them. I like seeing them around and they look like great fun live, but I don't listen to their music. Do I sing along and bob my head if their song comes up on the radio? Yes. Do I thing they are good musicians? Yeah, sure. Do I think they're worth my time and money and they offer something unique? Hell to the no. I'm sure their passion for music and what they do is one hundred percent genuine, hell I even used to hype them up when they were on the X Factor, at the time they felt like a breath of fresh air. Now that same air has been recycled in a 30 years old ac unit and it stinks. We need to open the windows. I don't know that becoming so famous so young was good for them. Fortunately they don't seem to be burned out just yet, an amazing feat for the two years they just had, but they are so devoid of meaning and content. They are beautiful rocking shells but everything they do is so derivative and unoriginal, they are to rock music what tik tok aesthetics are to 20th century subcultures. But I don't think it's worth it to actively hate on them either. They are a bunch of twenty years olds having the time of their lives, there's no harm in that. It's actually a pity their music isn't that good, otherwise they would truly be unstoppable.
Also the "don't act like you don't know" at the end of Gossip's chorus is straight up ripped from Rihanna.
True words
Idk why everyone is saying the album is so bad here. I REALLY liked the album. Obviously there were a few songs that were really bad like bla bla bla, mamamia, and kool kids but i thought the rest of the album was actually kind of great. I love time zone and baby said. There are a bunch of songs on there that are simply amazing. It doesn’t matter if it isn’t their original style. They literally said themselves they were experimenting.
I didn't hate it as much as you, Melon, but yeah, this album should've been better.
This is Italian on Italian crime
They should have just stuck to being a heavier Italian Franz Ferdinand.