Achille Lauro was a rapper with fondness for Matrix-like getups before becoming an unlikely muse for Gucci’s Alessandro Michele at the end of 2019. Right before the pandemic hit, he became a viral sensation when, during Italy’s Sanremo festival, he wore a plethora of glam-rock outfits and toyed with a 1970s version of androgyny.
The voices sound almost mystical and the melody is soothing. Indeed, it is so ethereal and twee that there’s actually something sinister, in aThis song, on the Mumfords/Lumineers axis of log-cabin strumalongs, is the musical equivalent of eating too many marshmallows from a campfire. Judging by rehearsals, Rosa Linn is staging her song in a bedroom with an all-white bed, comforter, armchair, plus walls decked in white Post-it notes, and indeed, it is about the whitest song imaginable.
Haven't we suffered enough over the past 2.5 years?
“NOW WE SEE THE LIGHT!