Tananai tells Vanity Fair: “I’m hungry for the present”

After the fifth place in Sanremo 2023 and one step away from the tour in the arenas, with dates already sold out, Tananai to Vanity Fair he tells of the “traumatic” change of life after the sudden success: “They called me from here, they wanted me from there. Dazzled by everything that was happening to me, I was forgetting about the important things: family, friends and the music itself that I had never left, even when I was an inconclusive dickhead. Yes, I felt lost.” But he also found himself. And now he has his say on the role of the artist, rights in danger and love without labels.

His friend Fedez argues that an artist must expose himself, take a stand precisely. For Salmo, on the other hand, that of committed artists is “a fairy tale that must end”. Who is right?
“I think the truth lies somewhere in between. I think it’s honest for an artist to expose himself if he wants to, and it’s equally honest not to do it when he doesn’t feel like it or doesn’t consider the context suitable ».

Would you have felt comfortable concluding a performance by launching an unequivocal appeal to the premier: “Giorgia, legalize her”?
«No, although I believe it is right to legalize soft drugs. And there are two reasons for my no: at the end of a performance I have an orgasm and I can’t say anything, even more so at that moment I can’t get out of my skills. This does not mean that Wittgenstein, the philosopher of language, is right. If I’m not mistaken, he maintained that what one cannot speak of, one must remain silent about. But in this way a debate does not arise ».

He’s following the one on thehomoparenthood and the government’s squeeze on the rights of rainbow families?
“A deprivation of rights will never find me in agreement.”

drugs?
«Cannette. But when my father found smoke on me he got angry much more than on other occasions: perhaps he feared that I was prone to addictions, instead I like to have control of my mind ».

In 2022 he declared: «I don’t believe in monogamy. I’m a good guy who does things that aren’t like a good guy.”
“I don’t believe that the only way to love is monogamy, even that of polygamists can be true love, but I’m not”.

Also in 2022 he declared again: «I am heterosexual. But it can also happen that one morning you wake up and suddenly think: ah, I really want to go free climbing!».
“I know what I am now, but I don’t know myself for what I can be. At the same time I know that if one day I met a boy and tried new feelings, I don’t think I would be frightened, because my parents raised me without labels or limits to love and taught respect for all”.

The reactions to a kiss like the one between her and Fedez on the Fabrique stage in May 2022 are enough to bring us back.
“And it was a show of pure affection. He was overjoyed, his cancer was behind him, he hadn’t performed live in a while, and we were having a great time, emotions took over. It would have been a problem if he had punched me or told me to fuck off, like people did when I sang in their faces in the barracks where I started.’