The Left's sensational blunder on Simone Cristicchi: here's how he flattens his comrades with 5 words

Quando sarà piccola, the gem of a song by Simone Cristicchi presented at the Sanremo Festival just after it was staged, was misinterpreted by almost everyone. The remote cause, the reason for such profound inspiration, was in fact not Alzheimer's disease or senile dementia but the cerebral hemorrhage that struck the Roman singer-songwriter's mother a few years ago. The opportunity to definitively clarify the origin of the song that has become highly contested by critics aligned mostly on the left, were the two interviews that Simone gave in the last two days to La7 in the show In altre parole by Massimo Gramellini and yesterday on Domenica In where he returned as a guest of Mara Venier. "It's a speech I have to my mother thinking about what her future could be," said Cristicchi. "My mother is still playful and very present. She followed the festival like everyone else, but unfortunately she who once was a big chatterbox, today has difficulty making herself understood and so she has gone back to being our little girl to take care of."

The singer-songwriter then returned to the story, speaking live yesterday afternoon with Mara Venier in front of the RaiUno cameras. "It was a tragedy for us and for her," Cristicchi admitted, "when something like this happens you are never prepared and it's a difficult thing to accept. We helped her to resume her path of rebirth despite the irreparable damage."

A blow struck with the artist's determination against the many detractors who have accused the singer-songwriter from the capital of even pornography of pain and sadness in favor of hype for the Sanremo juries, without considering the song's truly autobiographical content. Not an artistic idea, therefore, but a testimony of emotions, linked to a family story that was truly the most authentic possible. A detail that has not in any case removed the artist from the fire of a biased left-wing criticism that has put Cristicchi in the crosshairs mainly for his free ideas on themes considered right-wing such as the memory of the Italian martyrs of Istria and Dalmatia killed in the foibe and the artist's personal opposition to gestation for others. Opinions that have nothing to do with the song in the competition but have certainly affected the final result of a Festival that should have paid tribute to a song like Quando sarai piccola with a greater applause.