After our post on Italy’s cinevideo music clip (Gino Paoli’s La Gatta), here is a fantastic interpretation from Giorgia in vintage style, but with a modern song. The clip opens with a famous football referee and continues with Giorgia in a catwoman outfit and a hard core song. It’s a great tribute to old-style Italian show biz and retro film making with kaleidoscope motifs and black and white colour. It shows Giorgia’s originality and her willingness to experiment. This risqué clip really brings a smile.

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Today we indulge in some old-school Italian cinema with an original “cinevideo” of Gino Paoli’s song “La Gatta” or “The Cat”. Paoli was a famous pop singer in Italy in the 60’s and “La Gatta” was his first well-known song.

One of Paoli’s hit songs was “Il cielo in una stanza” (”The sky in a room”) which later featured in the music of the Goodfellas film. His song, “Sapore di sale” or “the taste of salt” was arranged by Ennio Morricone. An unquiet soul, he once attempted suicide before returning with some 80’s music and a more mature outlook on life.

Watching this early music video from Italy is a strange thing in 2008 and the music and lyrics are of a simplicity that we don’t see much in the superlative hit songs of the 21st century. It shows the wistful soul of this Italian singer-songwriter, with words of playing a guitar, looking through a skylight with a cat who has a black spot on her nose. All things that were subsequently lost.

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