Per Elisa
| Per Elisa | |
|---|---|
| Alice | |
| publication | 1981 |
| length | 3:36 |
| Genre (s) | pop |
| Author (s) | Franco Battiato , Alice, Giusto Pio |
| Publisher (s) | Ed. Beiriver |
| Label | EMI Italiana |
| album | Per Elisa |
| Cover versions | |
| 2000 | Alice |
| 2004 | Marian Trapassi |
| 2008 | Aram Quartet |
Per Elisa is an Italian song by Alice from 1981. It was written by the singer together with Franco Battiato and Giusto Pio . In February 1981 Alice won the Sanremo Festival with the song . It was subsequently released as a single and on the album Alice on EMI Italiana .
The collaboration between Battiato, Pio and Alice began in 1980 with the song Il vento caldo d'estate . After the success with Per Elisa , Battiato and Alice continued their collaboration for years and competed in the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson in 1984 with the song I treni di Tozeur .
The text by Per Elisa (in German Für Elise ) is about a couple in love and is told from the perspective of the partner. Elisa is the name of the partner's new flame and the first-person narrator tries to make it appear in a bad light. She also draws her partner's attention to the fact that Elisa is not even beautiful and that he risks losing her because of Elisa. One interpretation of the text wants to see Elisa as a pseudonym for an addictive drug, but both Alice and Battiato reject this interpretation. Nonetheless, the song was used in 1983 in Amore Tossico , a feature film about heroin addicts in Ostia.
Alice achieved a certain fame beyond Italy's borders with the song. On June 23, 1981 she appeared with the song in the third episode of Bananas on WDR television.
The song was covered by various musicians, such as Franco Battiato or, much later, the Aram Quartet and Ivana Spagna . The singers Annalisa and Emma Marrone sang the song on the occasion of the 63rd edition of the Sanremo Festival in 2013. Loretta Goggi , who came in second at the Sanremo Festival in 1981 with her song Maledetta primavera , became the presenter that same year, who was named after her broadcast Hello Goggi on Canale 5 . In this show she parodied Alice and the song Per Elisa, among others . Maledetta primavera was more successful in the Italian charts than Per Elisa . At the end of the 1980s, Stefano Nosei parodied the song as Doctor Spot for the television program Telemeno of the television channel Odeon TV .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ezio Guaitamacchi: 1000 canzoni che ci hanno cambiato la vita , Milan 2009, o. P.
- ↑ Contents overview of the Bananas episodes.
- ↑ M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on June 28, 2015 (Italian, paid subscription access).