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The song is intended to sound to its Italian audience as if it is sung in English spoken with an American accent; however, the lyrics are deliberately unintelligible gibberish. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Andrew Khan, writing in The Guardian , later described the sound as reminiscent of Bob Dylan 's output from the 1980s.
"Tu Cosa Fai Stasera" is a song by Dario Baldan Bembo, Amerigo Cassella which came third in the 1981 the competition at the Sanremo Music Festival [1] and later made famous by Sarah Brightman, under the title Just Show Me How to Love You, when translated into English.
The song, mainly inspired by the problems encountered by Dolcenera while trying to buy a home in Florence, was written by Dolcenera starting from June 2011. [4] During the same period, Italian film-director Maurizio Ponzi sent to Dolcenera the screenplay from the film Ci vediamo a casa, which is based upon a similar story, asking her to write a song for its soundtrack. [5]
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The accompanying music video for the song was directed by Spike Lee. The song saw an international revival through a bilingual Italian-English version released in late 1997 as a duet with American singer Tina Turner. The additional English lyrics were by James Ralston and Tina Turner herself.
The song reflects the beauty of the city's great surroundings and the love and passion of its citizens. More recent research indicates that the song may merely have been reworked for the occasion; family papers indicate that the brothers deposited a copy with the Italian Society of Authors and Editors in 1894, eight years before they claimed to ...
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In 2011, the song was released on the famous party band The Gypsy Queens eponymous album The Gypsy Queens. The song became a successful cover for the band when they released a video clip of the song (produced by Didier Casnati) featuring Italian actress Caterina Murino, and reached several million views on YouTube in only a couple of weeks.