(by Francesca Proietti Cosimi) So Paola Palma on the current situation in Italy after the effects of the coronavirus and the effects on the music industry. Coronavirus worries me less, but the music sector, which was not already living in good health, has practically stopped. The newspapers talk about it, of course, they talk about the skipped Bugo and Venditti concerts and the closed theaters, proving to know as usual little or nothing about music. They write two lines with a reader-catching title, but there is no mention of the long, already semi-agonizing record chain and how it will survive even this umpteenth backlash. There is no time for deepening.
Fortunately, adds La Palma, there are trade associations, such as the AFI, to protect music and those who create it, which send out a serious alarm cry, but at the moment let's get in line, there is all of Italy sinking and cry for help, from design to tourism, fashionable and the music passes for the Cinderella of the industry.
Sjust last week, before Coronavirus, our associations already foughtNo. on the field in San Remo for the crumbs, because the reimbursements of a "young" or "big" artist at the Festival are ridiculous and the musicians of the orchestra hired by mother Rai and contracted, but technically freelance with VAT, they receive around 50 euros per day. THEand their working days between tests and evening also last 10/12 hours,... here I underline it, because then we talk about Leotta's breast or Benigni's sermons and we miss the Italian song.
We haven't recovered yet, that comes the CoronavVirus, topic sensitive managed as if it were the bubonic plague and bomb-driven, unified networks through generalist TV, with the unsustainable lightness being whose, not just not thinks althe planetary consequences of a profitimproper use of the vehicle, ma on the contrary if you dopure ace!
The visionary Warhol said "in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes". It was enough just 15 minutes to do more virus damage.