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Piotta — Comunque vada sarà un successo (1998-99)
Supercafone (1) (Italian original)
Translation by Millicent Marcus and Martino Falsini, with C-Sal of DLH Posse.I hear a whistle, I can't resist
Chorus:
Music maestro, put on some disco
I get stuck in the crowd
The DJ turns it over to me if he runs the risk
No flops, I fill the dance floor
Piotta is on the tape deck and no one is sad
Whoever is on the dance floor dresses like Tony Manero
Boom box in their Alfa Romeos
Bell bottoms
Jacket from Standa (2)
The go-go dancer in a thong
Excites the band
I go to bed and dream about hitting the jack-pot
In the lottery
Then I buy everything that is coatto (3)
Studio 54 or the Piper Disco (4)
But was Amanda Lear a woman or a man? (5)
Piotta a stud like Lando (6)
A shout, a flash
And the boor is on stage
Supercafone, here he is
Piotta is his name and don't forget it
Move your hand here and there
Let me see you, don't stop. At the end of the month, the paycheck... Euro-Piotta (7)
I run to the sperm bank, coatto stuff
If it's not our thing we trash everything
They won't send us home
"without a roof"
Louder, no "chicken dance"
Here is the Supercafone
"How beautiful it is to make love"
like Carrà sings (8)
or to go to the Festivalbar with Califano (9)
With a star of hard in Novella (10)
To make toast to Funari with champagne and mortadella (11)
In a Ferrari with a show girl
"Vote for Moana" to change society (12)
Rap, some love it, some don't give a shit
I'm coatto, like Mario Brega (13) Chorus:
Supercafone, here he is
Piotta is his name and don't forget it
Move your hand here and there
Let me see you, don't stop. Nude sunbathing by the sea or on the balcony
or Supercafone's night-school
Young coatti like Manuel Fantoni (14)
…Hey pretty lady, "away with these muscle men
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm Mr. OK
The right rapper for both him and her
I'm disgusted by good manners
The boor is uncouth like Monezza (15)
What a stench!
The word spreads
From the Alps to the Andes
Piotta, you're the greatest!
Ignorant
With the suntan lotion tube
stuffed in his underwear Chorus:
Supercafone, here he is
Piotta is his name and don't forget it
Move your hand here and there
Let me see you, don't stop.NOTES
(1) Cafone was a term originally used for a peasant which became associated with a "boor, "low-class." Italian Americans have introduced the term to the States in the form of gavon'. BACK
(2) Standa is a national chain of department-like stores. BACK
(3) A coatto is similiar to a cafone but is associated with the city's periphery. BACK
(4) Piper Disco was a famous Roman discoteque during the 1960s. BACK
(5) Due to her deep voice, it was said that 1970s model-turned-glam singer Amanda Lear was a transvestite. She currently hosts programs about fashion and gossip on Italian and German television. BACK
(6) Lando was the star of a porno comic strip, named and based on Italian actor Lando Buzzanca. BACK
(7) Piotta is the Roman dialect term for 100 lire. Euro is the European-wide moeny system. BACK
(8) Raffaella Carrà, began her career as a dancer and became a TV host. BACK
(9) The Festivalbar is a mainstream summer festival that tours Italy.
Franco Califano is a pop singer known for his association with mobsters. BACK
(10) Novella 2000 is the Italian gossip magazine. BACK
(11) Gianfranco Funari is a TV host known for his crude language. BACK
(12) Moana Pozzi was a porn star who died of liver cancer in the early 1990s. Together with Hungarian Ilona "Cicciolina" Staller, she was a member of Gianni Schicchi's "Partito dell'amore" (Love Party), an all-pornstar political party that actually managed to get Cicciolina elected to parliament. BACK
(13) Actor Mario Brega appeared in a number of "Spaghetti Westerns," like Sergio Leone 's A Fistful of Dollars. Frankie Hi Nrg also quotes Brega in the "Cali Di Tensione" on La Morte dei Miracoli. BACK
(14) Manuel Fantoni was a character developed by comic actor Carlo Verdone. BACK
(15) Cuban-born actor Tomas Milian stared as "Er monnezza" (The Trash), an undercover and vulgar cop. BACK
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