Mascara Rivers: Adriano Celentano

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Adriano Celentano

The below video is one of the coolest things I have ever seen: It's the world's first-ever disco/rap named Prisencolinensinainciusol, a song composed of utter nonsense (on purpose).

"P" is supposed to emulate how we Americans (and our American pop music) sound to the rest of the world.

"Prisencolinensinainciusol", 1972: still cool, still current, still wow.

Here's more info. if you're as enraptured as I am:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisencolinensinainciusol

So mad, so genius and yeah, so very Italian.

When I was four years old, I refused to go out in anything but a blue and white maxi dress with an apron, a cobalt-blue pair of suede Adidas Gazelles, and long black streamer-like ponytails; one could safely say that I was a diva, maybe even fashionable…and definitely a character living in the homogenous and traditional suburbs of Minnesota.

Although I enjoyed fishing, horseback riding, trapping leeches in pickle jars at the pond across my home, and having filthy fingernails for every year of my childhood, I quickly learned that the Midwestern accents and Meat-and-Potatoes values that seemed to germinate everywhere where not for me.

I knew that the world was big and filled-to-the-brim in certain parts with people just like me…and from an early age, I was determined to find out where.

I hope I never have to leave.