Laura Pausini ended up at the center of the controversy because she refused to sing the song “ Bella Ciao ” during a guest at El Hormiguero, a popular quiz on Spanish TV.

Hymn of the partisan resistance and the fight against fascism, the song is well known in different parts of the world and in particular in Spain, where it was made famous by the series “La casa di carta”.

Involved in a musical game in which the contestants had to sing a song with the word "corazon", Pausini sang "Cuore Matto". Too bad no one knew her, so the conductor sang “Bella Ciao” and tried to involve those present.

She refused: " It's a very political song and I don't want to sing political songs, " she objected.

The judgments she attracted on social media were very harsh, someone even gave her ignorance, and #LauraPausini immediately became the trending topic number 1 on Twitter.

"You should be ashamed", "Bella Ciao forever", "If you consider Bella Ciao as a political song, understood as partisan, being exclusively anti-fascist and anti-Nazi but of all the political parties that took part in the Resistance from the communists to the Catholics to the liberals , I recommend a review of the basics of the Italian Constitution ”, are some comments.

Again: “He made me ashamed, with his refusal to sing Bella Ciao. It means not knowing the roots of his land. The song has a story and a first version which was the song of the mondine, exploited and abused. Bella Ciao is the song that gives voice to the oppressed . He missed a good opportunity, too bad ”. Few defend it, among them one who writes “finally an artist with a bit of character”.

Pausini, after the wave of criticism, defended herself as follows: “I don't sing political songs, neither from the right nor from the left. I've been singing what I think about life for 30 years. That fascism is an absolute shame seems obvious to me. I don't want anyone to use me for political propaganda . Do not invent what they are not ”.

(Unioneonline / L)

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