After debuting solo with Silverlines, Damiano David brings us Born with a broken heart as second single of this new stage in her career, away from Maneskin. The Italian once again distances himself from the rock that he had accustomed us to with his group to present us with a pop song that could be included in the soundtrack of any musical.
What's more, the video clip that accompanies it reminds us in several sections of the multi-award-winning La La Land either Singing in the rain (Singing in the rain). More specifically, to the scene in which Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds play You were meant for me. At this moment, both protagonists enter a filming set, something that the singer from Rome also does here.
Damiano thus stars in his own musical film, perhaps autobiographical, about a boy who is closed to love and who is unable to find it, no matter how much his suitor tries to convince him otherwise.since – as the title indicates – “he was born with a broken heart.” “What if I said I was trying to save your love from dying. Honey, I've gone too far. I don't want to see you cry, but I know myself very well and maybe that's the hardest part. Honey, you can't fix me, “I was born with a broken heart,” goes the chorus.
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The artist compares both personalities of their relationship as that between “a cactus” and “a balloon”; that is, totally incompatible. “When I wrote this song I was coming out of a very dark place, I felt emotionless and was afraid that I had lost my ability to feel things, whether good or bad. This was happening while I was starting the most significant relationship of my life and the fear of not being capable or not being prepared was great. I think the song was a way for me to make sense of what I was feeling and see it from a less scary perspective. I'm happy to say that I don't feel that way today, but I think a lot of people can relate to the feeling of not being good enough,” said Damiano David.
This short film directed by Aerin Moreno and produced by Radiance Pictures, It culminates with a brief and profound statement: “The most intense pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion”, a phrase that belongs to Giacomo Leopardi, poet, philosopher, philologist and Italian scholar of Romanticism, and which could be interpreted as that there is no more attraction than the desire to try to change a person even if deep down you know that it is impossible.
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