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Damiano David really feels grief say goodbye to. The Måneskin frontman has actually started his initial solo job, launching the track “Silverlines”– created by Labrinth— on Thursday (Sept 26).
“This song is a very special story to me,” the Italian musician informs Billboard of the psychological track that starts as a raw, stripped-back sorrowful song that full of hope as it apexes. “Sometimes, you hear a song and you think, ‘Oh my god, this song talks about me.’ … It was so amazing for me to get to work with such a huge artist and also on a song that, it’s basically describing my whole journey.”
According to David, singer-songwriter Sarah Hudson was currently working with the song with Labrinth when she thought of the concept to attach both guys and have the Måneskin rocker get on the track, for which he assisted pen the verses. And offered the possibility to work together with Labrinth– that has actually collaborated with the similarity Billie Eilish, The Weeknd, Nicki Minaj and much more– he had not been ready to claim no. “If you have the chance to work with Labrinth, you don’t get precious! You just do it!” David giggles, applauding his “extremely meticulous” manufacturer and their “very easy” partnership procedure. And he’s greater than thrilled with just how “Silverlines” has actually ended up.
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“It was funny for me how [this] first song was actually, it was, like, all I hoped for,” he wonders of “Silverlines,” which locates him revealing an at risk side that he had yet to cooperate his songs with Måneskin. “It was like the lyrics are such a message of hope for me because it was exactly what I was aiming for with this record, and now that the record is finished, I look back to that song and it’s like, ‘Wow! That’s basically the last stop of my journey,’ and it’s so funny that it came at the beginning — like [it was] heaven sent.”
“There’s a level of vulnerability that I never reached and a level of honesty that I never managed to reach not because I was not being honest in the other songs,” he includes. “I had to dig deeper into myself in order to even get to this information and then be able to transform it into music.”
David discusses that component of the factor he had actually not yet shared this even more individual side of him in Måneskin was since he intended to value the band’s solid identification– which he attributes as component of its success– and additionally the “role that was assigned to him,” however it had not been revealing him overall individual. “At one point I started to really suffer this very partial point of view of myself that I myself was giving to the world … I knew that I was the one choosing only to express that,” he shares, stressing that he takes obligation for that, and is currently, with his solo job, exposing a fuller image of that Damiano David is. “Literally my brain and my body rebelled to me and forced me to actually kind of cut me open, cut myself open and show myself to the world.”
And that sincerity is right there in his favored verses from “Silverlines”: A smile/ I invite you/ A darkness/ I have actually long neglected you/ And tranquility comes from me. “That’s what happened. This is the part that I share with the audience — it’s the public part of the work I’ve done,” discusses David, that relocated to Los Angeles in January, where he invested a couple of months by himself to identify his concerns. “I of course did a lot of personal work and personal growing, and I cut some things out of my life and I replaced [them] with new, healthier, more beautiful ones. I think now things are better.”
Helping him draw back the drape is the coming with video for “Silverlines,” a staged aesthetic routed by Nono + Rodrigo that reveals initially the battle, after that the countless opportunities that wait forDavid “One of the main topics of the whole thing is like, more than having the world,” he shares. “For me, it’s more like, from now on, it’s a white sheet and I’m able to actually … make my visuals become reality.”
And since he’s sharing a better check out himself with his solo songs, the singer is thrilled to see what’s on the perspective, though catching a Billboard Hot 100No 1 for “Silverlines” might not go to the top of his listing. “I don’t want to be like a hypocrite and say I don’t care about the charts because of course I care! Everybody cares!” he confesses. “But at the same time, the goal of this song is not topping the charts. I’m introducing myself to the world, so I don’t expect to be first from the first day. Actually, I don’t expect to be first any time. But I’m just very glad I have the opportunity to do this, and the results will come.”
Check out Damiano David’s launching solo track, “Silverlines,” and its video clip listed below:
