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Volevo essere un duro

"Volevo essere un duro"
Single by Lucio Corsi
from the album Volevo essere un duro
LanguageItalian
Released12 February 2025
GenreGlam rock[1]
Length3:05
LabelSugar Music
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s)Lucio Corsi
Producer(s)
  • Tommaso Ottomano
  • Antonio Cupertino
Lucio Corsi singles chronology
"Tu sei il mattino"
(2024) 		"Volevo essere un duro"
(2025)
Music video
"Volevo essere un duro" on YouTube
Eurovision Song Contest 2025 entry
Country
Artist(s)
Language
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s)
Lucio Corsi
Entry chronology
◄ "La noia" (2024)

"Volevo essere un duro" (Italian pronunciation: [voˈleːvo ˈɛssere un ˈduːro]; transl. "I wanted to be a tough guy") is a 2025 song by Italian singer-songwriter Lucio Corsi, co-written with Tommaso Ottomano and produced by Ottomano and Antonio Cupertino.[2] It was released by Sugar Music on 12 February 2025.[3]

The song competed in the Sanremo Music Festival 2025, finishing in second place and being awarded the Critics Prize.[4][5] It was later chosen as the Italian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025, after the Sanremo winner Olly declined the opportunity to represent the country in the contest.[6]

Composition

The song, written by Corsi himself with Tommaso Ottomano, who co-produced it with Antonio Cupertino,[7][8] unfolds as a reflection on personal and societal expectations regarding self-image versus bullying when he was a child.[9][10] In an interview given on the occasion of the Sanremo 2025 Festival, Corsi described the meaning of his song, stating:[11]

"It talks about the idea that this world would like us to be infallible, solid as stones and perfect as flowers, without telling us that flowers hang by a thread. And then also about the fact that, often, it is also easy not to become what one dreamed of. Very few people can say that they have become what they dreamed of as children or what the world would have us be. Then, maybe sometimes it is not even the right path. We happen to dream of things that, in the end, are not so much better than what we are. If my song were an image, it would be one of those trees you climb as a child, or a slingshot."

Critical reception

"Volevo essere un duro" received favorable reviews from Italian music critics.[12][13][14]

Andrea Laffranchi of Corriere della Sera wrote that the song has the "delicacy of Ivan Graziani and the panache of glam rock", associating the lyrical narrative with a fairy tale.[15] Gianni Sibilla of Rockol stated that the song "in essence is another ballad, but with an arrangement that between strings and guitars has a 70s flavor almost Elton John music style" whose lyrics "play with the stereotypes of machismo".[16]

Alvise Salerno of All Music Italia wrote that although the song does not fully represent Corsi's songwriting career, it opens up to the general public thanks to its "melodic simplicity and vocal as well as textual immediacy".[17] Filippo Ferrari of Rolling Stone Italia reported that the song is among the best productions of the singer-songwriter's career, finding the lyrics "full of images that make one think about life and what a mess it is to become an adult".[18]

Music video

The music video of "Volevo essere un duro", directed by Tommaso Ottomano, was released on 12 February 2025 via Corsi's YouTube channel.[19] The video features actors Massimo Ceccherini, Leonardo Pieraccioni, Laura Locatelli, Alvise Cimarosti, and Mariia Zhizhkun.[20] It contains numerous references to other works including the music videos of Black or White by Michael Jackson and Walk This Way by Aerosmith with Run DMC and the films The Exorcist, Back to the Future and Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny from which the initial scene linked to the song "Kickapoo" by the group of the same name resumes.[21][22]

Charts

Chart performance for "Volevo essere un duro"
Chart (2025) Peak
position
Italy (FIMI)[23] 3
Italy Airplay (EarOne)[24] 8
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[25] 35

References

  1. ^ "Sanremo 2025: quando i cantautori superano i tormentoni" (in Italian).
  2. ^ Nasto, Vincenzo (10 February 2025). "Il testo di Volevo essere un duro di Lucio Corsi e il significato della canzone a Sanremo 2025". Fanpage.it (in Italian). Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  3. ^ Visentin, Barbara (5 February 2025). ""Volevo essere un duro" di Lucio Corsi, il significato del testo a Sanremo 2025". Corriere della Sera.
  4. ^ Nasto, Vincenzo (16 February 2026). "Lucio Corsi vince il premio della critica Mia Martini a Sanremo 2025, a Simone Cristicchi il premio Sala stampa Lucio Dalla". Fanpage.it (in Italian). Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  5. ^ "Sanremo, Premio della Critica a Lucio Corsi". Agenzia ANSA (in Italian). 16 February 2025. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  6. ^ "Eurovision Song Contest, Lucio Corsi per l'Italia" [Eurovision Song Contest, Lucio Corsi for Italy]. RAI Ufficio Stampa (in Italian). RAI. 2025-02-22. Retrieved 2025-02-22.
  7. ^ Gradi, Stefano (3 February 2025). ""Volevo essere un duro" di Lucio Corsi - Il testo e il significato della canzone di Sanremo 2025". TV Sorrisi e Canzoni (in Italian). Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  8. ^ Basso, Fabrizio (7 February 2025). "Sanremo, Lucio Corsi: 'Volevo essere un Duro è il respiro dell'aria'". Sky TG24 (in Italian). Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  9. ^ "Volevo essere un duro, testo e significato della canzone di Lucio Corsi". La Repubblica (in Italian). 15 February 2025. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  10. ^ Amodeo, Maria Francesca (11 February 2025). "Lucio Corsi ammette Volevo essere un duro per poi abbracciare e condividere la sua natura mite a Sanremo 2025". GQ Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  11. ^ "La canzone di Lucio Corsi è 'Volevo essere un duro'. Di cosa parla?". Quotidiano Nazionale (in Italian). 11 February 2025. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  12. ^ Pucci, Federico (February 12, 2025). "I voti alle canzoni di Sanremo 2025 per la prima serata, le pagelle: Lucio Corsi 8, Marcella Bella 2". Fanpage.it (in Italian). Retrieved February 13, 2025.
  13. ^ "Le pagelle della prima serata di Sanremo 2025, live: Tony Effe, cosa direbbe Califano (5)? Jova è pura energia (8,5), Tamberi un corpo estraneo (5)". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). February 12, 2025. Retrieved February 13, 2025.
  14. ^ Silenzi, Andrea (February 12, 2025). "Le pagelle della prima serata di Sanremo 2025". La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved February 13, 2025.
  15. ^ Andrea, Laffranchi (January 20, 2025). "Sanremo 2025, le pagelle delle canzoni ascoltate in anteprima: Fedez vede nero (voto 6), Emis Killa cassa zarra (5), Brunori pare De Gregori (8), Tony Effe indolente (5)". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved February 13, 2025.
  16. ^ Sibilla, Gianni (January 20, 2025). "Sanremo 2025, le canzoni: il ritorno delle ballate". Rockol (in Italian). Retrieved February 13, 2025.
  17. ^ Salerno, Alvise (January 20, 2025). "Festival di Sanremo 2025, le pagelle dopo l'ascolto in anteprima delle canzoni: brillano su tutti Giorgia, Achille Lauro e Cristicchi". All Music Italia (in Italian). Retrieved February 13, 2025.
  18. ^ Ferrari, Filippo (20 January 2025). "Sanremo 2025, gli ascolti dei brani: crying at the discoteque". Rolling Stone Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 23 February 2025.
  19. ^ Alicandri, Alessandro (14 February 2025). "Tutti i video dei cantanti in gara a Sanremo 2025". TV Sorrisi e Canzoni (in Italian). Retrieved 14 February 2025.
  20. ^ Ugolini, Chiara (12 February 2025). "Lucio Corsi a Sanremo, il video con Pieraccioni e Ceccherini: "Sono diventato Pinocchio e Lucignolo"". La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  21. ^ Musillo, Alessia (12 February 2025). "What Celebs Love: Lucio Corsi e una delle sedie più famose della storia del design". Elle Decor Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  22. ^ "Lucio Corsi, "Volevo essere un duro": ecco il video ufficiale del brano in gara al Festival di Sanremo 2025". Gazzetta del Sud (in Italian). 12 February 2025. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
  23. ^ "Classifica settimanale WK 9 (dal 21.02.2025 al 27.02.2025)" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
  24. ^ "Volevo essere un duro - Lucio Corsi". EarOne. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
  25. ^ "Lucio Corsi – Volevo essere un duro". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volevo_essere_un_duro