E poi siamo finiti nel vortice

E poi siamo finiti nel vortice is the eighth solo studio album of the Italian singer-songwriter Annalisa, released on 29 September 2023 by Warner Music Italy.[4]

E poi siamo finiti nel vortice
Studio album by
Released29 September 2023
Recorded2021–2023[1]
Genre
Length38:46
LanguageItalian
LabelWarner Music Italy
Producer
  • Simonetta
  • Zef
Annalisa chronology
Nuda
(2020)
E poi siamo finiti nel vortice
(2023)
Singles from E poi siamo finiti nel vortice
  1. "Bellissima"
    Released: 2 September 2022
  2. "Mon amour"
    Released: 31 March 2023
  3. "Ragazza sola"
    Released: 8 September 2023

Composition and themes

The album consists of twelve tracks, written by Annalisa herself with severals authors and producers, including Davide Simonetta, Alessandro Raina, Paolo Antonacci, Zef, Room9, Placido Salamone and Raffaele Esposito.[5] In an interview with Rockol, Annalisa explained the creative process following the release of her seventh studio album Nuda and the meaning of the new album:[6]

"I worked differently, that is, by subtraction, taking away constructions, preconceptions and superstructures, I wanted to go to the root. [...] There were three factors. The first: when I started making music I felt the need to be known. I wanted to be understood. I didn't think I was putting myself in the service of entertainment. After Nuda I realized that I also wanted something else. From there my 'transformations' were born. The second factor is being able to identify the two sides that I love most and that work on me and for me: vocals and electronics. The third factor: what happened outside. Where the world moves, the historical period: everything contributed. People wanted this change of pace, the time was ripe for it."

The singer also explicated the meaning of the album's title, defined as "metaphorical" about the different phases of life identified in the "vortex,"[7][8] in which "enthusiasm is represented, there are disappointments, things that change, twists and turns, an ending.[9] And then you start again." From a music direction viewpoint, Annalisa said she was inspired by electropop and 80s music.[10]

Promotion and release

Singles

The first single "Bellissima" was released on 2 September 2022.[11] The song peaked at number 7 on the Italian singles chart and became the first single by a woman to remain on the chart for over a year since the establishment of the FIMI chart in 2006.[12][13] The track was also certified quadruple platinum in Italy, for sales exceeding 400,000 units, making it her highest-selling song in the territory and the highest certified female solo song since FIMI.[14] On 31 March 2023, "Mon amour" was published as the album's second single.[15] The song topped both the Italian airplay chart and the FIMI singles chart, becoming her first number one single and making her the first Italian solo female artist to top the chart since 2020.[16] On 4 September 2023, Annalisa announced that the album's third single, "Ragazza sola", would be released on 8 September 2023.[17]

In an interview with Vanity Fair, Annalisa discussed her motivation for choosing these three singles, designed as a musical and visual trilogy:[18]

"I have tried, with the songs, to identify the various phases of these cycles: in "Bellissima", I identify in the unexpected a decisive moment of all paths, the moment when you ask yourself questions about why what you had hoped for did not happen. In "Mon Amour", I talk about the desire for revenge and to take a freedom you had forgotten, and in "Ragazza sola", I address the desire to relearn how to be with yourself. Each song describes an emotional phase"

Tour and announcement

In June 2023, Annalisa announced the title of the album as E poi siamo finiti nel vortice, with a release date set for autumn 2023.[19] On 30 August 2023, Annalisa revealed the cover of the album, announcing that it would be released on 29 September 2023.[4] The full track listing for the album was revealed on 19 September.[20]

Alongside her appearance at the Sanremo Music Festival in February 2023, Annalisa announced her first concert at Mediolanum Forum, set to take place on 4 November 2023.[21] Alongside the announcement of the album's title in June 2023, Annalisa announced her first arena tour, "Tutti nel vortice", set to take place in April 2024 with dates in six Italian cities.[19]

Critics reception

Claudio Cabona of Rockol described the album as having a "mainly electronic and enveloping sound, with lots of references to the 1980s and some sprinklings of the 1960s" with references to Nada, Raffaella Carrà and Donatella Rettore, resulting in "extremely fun, self-deprecating and danceable." In the review, the album is described as "true and believable," as it "speaks the language of these times, in every respect," with the tracks' goal of "making the listener's days less bitter. Sometimes you forget that, but that really should be the essence of pop." Among the tracks, he says Stelle is the best song "from the point of view of the balance between lyrics and music," and Violent Indigo "the symbolic piece of the project."[2] For the same site, Mattia Marzi wrote that the singer in the project appears "sexy, unprejudiced and ironic as never before," but without "pulling a new Beyoncé," as she sings in the tracks "with a fresh, pop, empathetic and even funny manner."[6]

Ondarock's writer Claudio Fabretti called E poi siamo finiti nel vortice "a perfectly contemporary record," in which the singer enacts an "irreversible transformation" toward an "electropop turn," and that "80s electronica" goes well with "the shadowy, restless mezzo-soprano." On the album he found that "bolder lyrical flutters" alternated with "teenage TikTok withdrawal slips," calling the latter choice an attempted "update to the two-thousand of the old italo disco," although it "does not always appear able to fill it with content up to the mark." Fabrietti wrote that the album as a whole shows an Annalisa "no longer a pretentious intimate singer-songwriter but not yet fully comfortable in the role of femme fatale to be whipped around the dance floor," hoping that "she can rediscover that elegant singer-songwriter ambition and taste for Mina-like refinement that, after all, she has always sought. And, to quote Mon Amour, 'I'm in.'[3]

Track listing

E poi siamo finiti nel vortice track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Bellissima"
Davide Simonetta3:21
2."Ragazza sola"
  • Scarrone
  • Simonetta
  • Alessandro Raina
Simonetta3:19
3."Euforia"
  • Scarrone
  • Simonetta
  • Antonacci
Simonetta3:00
4."Mon amour"
  • Scarrone
  • Simonetta
  • Antonacci
  • Simonetta
  • Zef
3:23
5."Rosso corallo"
  • Scarrone
  • Simonetta
  • Raina
Simonetta3:20
6."Bollicine"
  • Scarrone
  • Simonetta
  • Antonacci
Simonetta3:26
7."Gommapiuma"
  • Scarrone
  • Simonetta
  • Antonacci
  • Raina
  • Simonetta
  • Placido Salamone
3:01
8."Aria"
  • Scarrone
  • Kende
  • Lorenzo Santarelli
  • Marco Salvaderi
ROOM93:03
9."La crisi a Saint-Tropez"
  • Scarrone
  • Simonetta
  • Antonacci
Simonetta3:08
10."Ti dico solo"
  • Scarrone
  • Kende
  • Santarelli
  • Salvaderi
ROOM93:09
11."Stelle"
  • Scarrone
  • Simonetta
  • R. Esposito
Simonetta3:17
12."Indaco violento"
  • Scarrone
  • Simonetta
  • Antonacci
Simonetta3:14
Total length:38:46

Charts

Chart performance for E poi siamo finiti nel vortice
Chart (2023) Peak
position
Italian Albums (FIMI)[22] 1
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[23] 42

References

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