After three years of silence, a truth record that talks about divorce, children, voice problems and panic attacks
Tiziano Ferro has chosen the path of truth in the songs of the new album «I’m great». Eleven tough songs born after the two most difficult years of her life, as she told Corriere della Sera in recent days, talking about the divorce from her partner Viktor, the management of her two children (Margherita and Andrés) who live in America, her insecurities, the change of record company (she now records for Sugar) and the new management. «They have been two disastrous years between couples therapy, fears, panic attacks. I decided not to take my two children away from the United States, but America is an alienating place.”
New record company, new work team to put to music the last part of his life, the most difficult one: «In a certain sense I suffer the life I lead, also and above all because I didn’t choose the United States. America came for love. Then, the children arrived. And when the story with my partner ended, leaving America became complex. I have custody of the children” he says “but I wouldn’t want to take them away, even if I could. And this pushes me to live in an alienating place (Los Angeles; ed.) where I have no points of reference.”
There is all this in the songs of Sono un grande: anger, pain, the desire to be reborn and start over. «I made the most uncomfortable choice, that of the truth and once this option has been decided, there is no going back. Self-analysis for me is an acquired fact: I am a singer-songwriter, and I am structurally obliged to look inside myself” he says.
I’m great, the song that opens the albumemotionally powerful, summarizes the concept of the entire album, between anger, fear and the desire to be reborn. «We didn’t know that it was the last holiday in the sun, the last time we made love, that you told me everything will be fine, but what love, what goodAnd… Let’s throw stones at all lies…”.
It goes straight to the point, even with a certain amount of brutality in the verses Unknown Soldier:”I wanted to bleed a lot and say goodbye in a beautiful way.” Instead, life goes on and so does his musical story, which also continues on this album with the style that made him what he is, someone who buys tickets for the stadium concerts in 2026 in it has already sold three hundred thousand.
I dreamed of you is one of the strongest ballads in his discographya great piece that talks about a mother, a dreamed mother, an absent mother who cannot be hugged. And then, I pretend&I push the new single at full pace, dedicated to having to make it, to having to sing even with a broken heart and a burning throat: «They told me “Come on, keep going like this. Are you sick? Ok, come on, you can do it”». I replied: “But I can’t speak.” And they: «An injection and off to the stage» he told Rolling Stone, recalling the problems of a lump in his throat which made it almost impossible for him to perform live.
The musical figure of the album is an effective mix of soul, R&B and ballad, this time with an edge compared to the choice of extremely contemporary and pulsating sounds. Like those of 1-2-3, evidently dedicated to the effects of panic attacks. » This was the album that should never have been released, that I should have listened to again on my own in some time» declared Tiziano Ferro in recent days. Instead it’s a good thing that it reached everyone too because listen after listen it seems to be his most beautiful album, as well as the most suffered.
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