A list of songs that every Italian speaker knows but are weird to explain to foreigners
(because a genius made a tweet about this and it was so brilliant that I need to do something similar on tumblr)
the one where America is a metaphor for masturbation [x]
the one about Sundays being boring and useless [x]
the one where somebody killed spiderman and it might have been the coffee industry [x]
the one where happiness is a glass of wine and a sandwich [x]
the one about a vespa scooter [x]
the one where the cobra isn’t a snake [x]
the one where a guy wants to go on a date with his girl but someone from her family keeps tagging along [x]
the one about bananas and raspberries [x]
the one where a guy suffers from stress, is tired and out of shape but is in a boyband [x]
the one where a lady sees a hot guy at the supermarket and tries to hit on him before he finishes his grocery shopping [x]
the one about getting a new face thanks to a perfect scalpel [x]
the one where you need to ask your mom to send you to buy milk because we need to talk [x]
the one about a man starting to consider the triangle after the lady he was supposed to sleep with brings another dude along [x]
The one where making love is beautiful but only if you do it below the latitude of the city of Trieste [x]
the really, really upbeat song about wanting razorblades to self harm [x]
the one about cicadas [x]
the one where the afternoon is too light blue and long [x]
the one where a boy form Naples likes to act like an American even if he’s born in Italy [x]
the one about a guy that wants to spend all day in the bath tube [x]
the one about poppys being tall tall tall, but you’re born a little duck and there’s nothing you can do about it [x]
the one about Gianna who had a crocodile and a doctor [x]
the one about the night before your final high school exams [x]
the really, really old one about how both black eyes and blue eyes are pretty but we like legs more [x]
the one where until the boat goes, don’t row [x]
the one about a really cool guy that liked the beatles and rolling stones just like me but now he’s dead in Vietnam [x]
the one where life is beautiful as long as you have an umbrella [x]
the one where superhero Shpalman spreads shit on the faces of the bad guys [x]
the one about the friendzone [x]
the one about houses, books, cars, travels, newspaper sheets [x]
the one about a man being hung with a gold rope because he stole 6 deers from the king’s park selling them for money [x]
the one about chocolate ice cream, sweet and a bit salty [x]
the one about the moon knocking [x]
the one about going to dance in Apulia except “dance” is a methaphor for dying [x]
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