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| Released | February 25, 2022 | |||
| Recorded | January 2021 | |||
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| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 48:46 | |||
| Language | Italian | |||
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La ragazza del futuro is the seventh studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Cesare Cremonini, released by Universal Music Italy and Virgin Records on 25 February 2022. [1]
After publishing his sixth studio album Possibili scenari in 2017, Cremonini take a recording hiatus, embracing the Cremonini Live 2018 Tour. In 2019 he published his third compilation album Cremonini 2C2C - The Best Of promoted by the new single "Al telefono". Between January to November 2021 Cremonini recorded and composed new songs, announcing the publication of his seventh studio album La ragazza del futuro. [2] [3]
The record project features fourteen tracks, written and produced by Cremonini himself with Alessandro Magnani and Alessandro De Crescenzo. [4] [5] The album also features collaborations by Davide Petrella, Davide Rossi, Steve Jordan and Niki Ingman. [6] Cremonini explained the meaning of the album and its recording process in a press conference: [7]
"This album, as then also the period we lived through, is a watershed for my career and for my life. [...] La ragazza del futuro is a record that also stems from a reflection, in my opinion, inevitable on the role of the Italian music artist today. [...] I also carry on a musical tradition, the Bolognese songwriting tradition, with an intimate look at reality. [...] I focused on songs, some visionary, that would drag me towards the future. I thought the glue could be instrumentals, simple, almost raw, rough"
La ragazza del futuro received positive reviews by Italian critics, which prised the production and composition of the tracks and Cremonini vocal performance. [8] [9] The album was also considered among the best albums of 2022 by critics. [10] [11] [12] Ernesto Assante of La Repubblica lists the project among the best of 2022, describing it as one capable of expressing itself with "lightness and depth” through “musically precious tales and memorable refrains". [13]
Giulia Cavaliere of Rolling Stone Italia wrote that "Cremonini seems to seek a new dimension for the singer-songwriter self, capable precisely of detaching himself from the self, from the uniquely private matter, to rise to a we, to a collective dimension of the song, which he himself does not hesitate to call civic", making "a record that reasons about the individual's sense of responsibility in the common destiny of things, to the point of attempting to go outside himself as well to project himself into something that would like to be greater". Knight found that the songs were made "to tighten them up, to make them feel embraced in the album dimension, [...] which seeks to eschew the thought of the playlist". [14] The magazine later placed the album at number 19 on its list of "The 25 Best Italian Albums of 2022".
Vittoria Filippi Gabardi of Vogue Italia reported that "La ragazza del futuro is an album that spans a deluge of time and many delicacies: the death of her father, the pandemic, and deep reflections on her own personal journey. It has instinct and heart, enthusiasm as a counterbalance to fear, it intercepts presences, symbolic horizons, it has a grace filled with caresses and poetry". [15] Giulio Poglio, reviewing the album for Panorama, wrote that "the whole album is the child of the title song, the first step to put together that are pop in the best sense of the term, poetry and a look towards tomorrow". Poglio was impressed by the four entirely instrumental tracks, calling them "glue between the other ten songs". [16]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Intro" |
| 1:25 | |
| 2. | "La ragazza del futuro" |
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| 4:49 |
| 3. | "Colibrì" |
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| 4:35 |
| 4. | "MoonWalk" |
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| 4:45 |
| 5. | "Interlude +" |
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| 0:42 |
| 6. | "La fine del mondo" |
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| 4:57 |
| 7. | "Chimica" |
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| 5:42 |
| 8. | "La camicia" |
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| 3:56 |
| 9. | "Interlude -" |
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| 0:36 |
| 10. | "Stand up comedy" |
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| 4:57 |
| 11. | "Jeky" |
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| 3:12 |
| 12. | "Psyco" |
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| 3:46 |
| 13. | "Delfini" |
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| 1:01 |
| 14. | "Chiamala felicità" |
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| 4:23 |
| Total length: | 48:46 | |||
| Chart (2022) | Peak position |
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| Italian Albums (FIMI) [17] | 2 |
| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [18] | 75 |
| Chart (2022) | Peak position |
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| Italian Albums (FIMI) [19] | 50 |
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| Italy (FIMI) [20] | Gold | 25,000‡ |
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. | ||
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