Anime Parallele Explained

Anime Parallele/Almas Paralelas
Type:studio
Artist:Laura Pausini
Cover:Cover of Anime Parallele Album by italian singer Laura Pausini 2023.jpg
Caption:Italian-language edition
Released:October 27, 2023
Recorded:2022–2023
Genre:Pop
Length:52:57
Label:
Prev Title:Fatti sentire/Hazte sentir
Prev Year:2018

Anime Parallele and Almas Paralelas (English: Parallel Souls) are the fifteenth studio albums by Italian singer Laura Pausini, released on October 27, 2023 by Warner Music and Atlantic Records.[1] The album is primarily in Italian and Spanish, but it also contains parts in Portuguese.[2]

Background

After releasing her fourteenth studio album Fatti sentire in 2018, Pausini embarked on the Fatti Sentire World Tour 2018 between Europe, the United States and Latin America. In 2019 she released the greatest hits The Singles Collection and set out on the 2019 Laura Biagio Stadi Tour in Italy with Biagio Antonacci. After the conclusion of the tour, the singer announced a recording pause of at least two years.[3]

On October 23, 2020, she publishes the first original song "Io sì (Seen)", a soundtrack to the film The Life Ahead directed by Edoardo Ponti,[4] becoming the first non-English-language song to win the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and become the first song written in Italian to be nominated at the Academy Award for Best Original Song.[5] [6] Between 2020 and 2022 Pausini had started recording and composing her fourteenth studio album. In 2022, she published the Italian and Spanish language song "Scatola / Caja", as the soundtrack to the documentary film about the singer life and career Laura Pausini – Piacere di conoscerti directed by Ivan Cotroneo and Monica Rametta for Prime Video.[7]

In August 2023 Pausini announced through her social networks that she had finished her fourteenth studio album, writing, "Today, after 3 years, I can say that I have finally finished singing my new record."[8]

Conception

During a press conference for the album, Pausini said the project was started during the COVID-19 pandemic,[9] and features in the lyrics "stories I have lived or been told" and "to put love, respect for people and human beings back at the center."[10] [11] The singer further stated:[12]

Composition

The project is composed of sixteen tracks in the original version and twenty-two in the deluxe version, written and composed by Pausini with numerous songwriters and composers, including Biagio Antonacci, Federica Abbate, Michele Bravi, Alessandro Raina, Davide Simonetta, Dario Faini, Virginio and Cheope. Production was entrusted to Michelangelo, Paolo Carta, Simon Says! and Francesco "Katoo" Cattiti.[13] The singer reported on the production process of the tracks of the work of joining the arrangements to the artist's voice:[14] The singer also explained the decision to include the voice of her daughter Paola in the track "Dimora naturale":[15]

Reception

Alessandro Alicandri of TV Sorrisi e Canzoni described the project as "intense and varied in content," noting that it evinces "the desire to leave nothing to chance, to always remember how important attention to detail and renewal is," and "the love of the community of parallel souls who walk alongside her even though they live in different lives." The journalist was impressed by the writers and producers involved in the project, reporting that the production of the songs "comes across as very compact, clear, and very true to Laura Pausini's identity."[16]

Paolo Panzeri of Rockol affirmed that the album presents "an unquestionable formal perfection" that "confirm[s] her status as the queen of Italian pop and that of a Latin music star," appreciating the collaborations in songwriting. Panzeri stressed that the singer "restrains the power of her voice" in the songs, "going rather for more restrained singing, and that is not a bad thing."[17]

Billboard reanked the album as one of the "25 Best Latin Albums of 2023", describing it as a "passionate journey" and a "a pop gem that made us dance and laugh, reflect, and heal" with sounds from "energetic pop-dance/electronic song" to "sensitive piano love ballad".[18]

Track listing

Anime Parallele/Almas Paralelas Deluxe

Contains 3 CDs: the Italian and Spanish-language editions, and 6 bonus tracks.

Charts

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Peak
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Italian Albums (FIMI)[19] 2

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 11 September 2023 . Laura Pausini, Anime Parallele è il nuovo album di inediti – Musica – Ansa.it . 27 October 2023 . . it.
  2. 12 September 2023 . Laura Pausini Announced New Album "Anime Parallele" . 27 October 2023 . . it.
  3. Web site: 31 August 2020 . Laura Pausini interrompe già la pausa e annuncia un nuovo progetto . 27 October 2023 . . it.
  4. Web site: Tangcay . Jazz . 23 October 2020 . Diane Warren's New Power Ballad Oscar Contender Is in Italian (LISTEN) . 27 October 2023 . Variety.
  5. Chan . Anna . 24 April 2021 . Laura Pausini & Diane Warren Take 'Io Si: Seen' to New Heights at the 2021 Oscars Pre-Show . 27 October 2023 . Billboard.
  6. Cobo . Leila . 4 March 2021 . Laura Pausini on Giving Voice to 'Icon' Sophia Loren & Winning the Golden Globe . 27 October 2023 . Billbaord.
  7. Web site: Tirado . Monica . 8 April 2022 . Laura Pausini revela revela en su nueva película que tiene una 'doble vida' lejos de la fama . 27 October 2023 . . es.
  8. Web site: Manca . Mario . 9 August 2023 . Laura Pausini a sorpresa: "Ho finito il nuovo album" . 27 October 2023 . . it.
  9. Web site: Dalla Tomasina . Chiara . 27 October 2023 . Dopo 30 anni di carriera, l'artista ha ancora un dubbio . 27 October 2023 . . it.
  10. Web site: Castrovinci . Marco . 27 October 2023 . Le 'Anime parallele' di Laura Pausini: "Celebro gli esseri umani, la bellezza di essere diversi" . 27 October 2023 . . it.
  11. Web site: 27 October 2023 . Laura Pausini: "Oggi siamo omologati perché abbiamo paura di essere esclusi" . 27 October 2023 . Billboard Italia . it.
  12. Web site: 27 October 2023 . Laura Pausini racconta il nuovo album "Anime parallele" . 27 October 2023 . . it.
  13. Web site: 26 October 2023 . È fuori "Anime parallele" di Laura Pausini la tracklist e tutti gli autori delle 16 nuove canzoni . 27 October 2023 . All Music Italia . it.
  14. Web site: Bruno Ployer . Sky . 27 October 2023 . Laura Pausini: 'Anime Parallele è il mio messaggio d'amore' . 27 October 2023 . . it.
  15. Web site: 27 October 2023 . Laura Pausini torna con il disco "Anime Parallele", il suo nuovo 'buon inizio': "In passato mi sono sentita molto insicura" . 27 October 2023 . Agenzia Dire . it.
  16. Web site: Alicandri . Alessandro . 27 October 2023 . "Anime parallele": Laura Pausini condensa il meglio del pop in 16 canzoni (con tanti ospiti) . 27 October 2023 . . it.
  17. Web site: Panzeri . Paolo . November 13, 2023 . Laura Pausini è sempre la regina del pop italiano . December 27, 2023 . . it.
  18. Web site: December 21, 2023 . The 25 Best Latin Albums of 2023: Staff Picks . December 27, 2023 . Billboard.
  19. Web site: Album – Classifica settimanale WK 44 (dal 27.10.2023 al 02.11.2023). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. it. 4 November 2023.