U2, One: the story of the song and the meaning of the lyrics
Is it getting better? When Bono wrote these words, it was 1991. He has no, U2 are going to break up. Things are not getting better at all. The group experienced huge success at the…
Ilaria Arghenini
Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb: behind the meaning of the lyrics
A request breaks the silence. HelloIs there anybody in there? In this way, almost as a whisper, Comfortably Numb begins: a wonderful poem about loneliness and the need for meanings. Comfortably Numb, one of Pink Floyd’s most…
The Verve, Bitter Sweet Symphony: behind the meaning of the song
When I heard again The Verve’s Bitter Sweet Symphony, I was walking towards the train station. It was 8am on a Wednesday and I wasn’t yet ready to start the day. I was thinking back…
Amy Winehouse, You Know I’m No Good: the meaning of the lyrics
Do you remember Amy Winehouse when she was alive? Every day, dozens of virtual bouquets of flowers are placed in the comments under her songs online, the elegies that are periodically published on the Internet…
Fight The Power: the voice of black America in the words of Public Enemy
Before Charlottesville, before being killed by Arlon Sterling and African American agent while driving, first of all this there was the hip hop that was heading to that part of the country that he didn’t…