In short, Francesco Baccini is not there. To end up in the meat grinder of total revision of the culture of the past in the eyes of today’s categories is dangerous and there is a real danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. “If Le donne di Modena has sexist lyrics, we have to cancel
De André, Jannacci, Dalla, Vecchioni, Vasco Rossi
…” the songwriter says in the tweet, and it’s hard to blame him.
The controversy erupted in the last two days after Baccini intervened on the stage of the Notte dei poeti literary prize in Sondrio, where he was due to receive a plaque. “Before I received the award – he explained – I performed a few songs from my repertoire and made a joke at the introduction of ‘Le donne di Modena’, saying that today I might have a problem doing such a piece publish because I might be accused of sexism”.
In confirmation of his thought, a girl in the audience began to challenge him, particularly over the part of the chorus that says women “cook, they know how to cook, they hate ironing and they know how to make love.” . Baccini has always explained that the song 32 years ago denounces precisely the macho attitude. He then told the National newspaper: “I tried to explain to you that in reality the text ridicules Italian Gallicism but has nothing to do with how to talk to the wall”.
“
The women of Modena
“a song is over
1990
. Included in Baccini’s second album “
The piano is not my forte
‘ was a hugely successful single, surpassed in popularity only by ‘Sotto questo sole’, which was written and sung with
bicycle thieves
and with which Baccini won the festival bar in the same year. On the same album there was also the song “Genova Blues” made with Fabrizio De André.