MadonnaTribe meets Chiara Iezzi
The MadonnaTribe team is happy to meet Chiara Iezzi, singer, painter, photographer and multifaceted artist, to discuss her new life, her new single and a common passion: Madonna. Join us for this exclusive chat with Italy’s blond and pop sensation whose new single, “Nothing At All“, entered the single chart straight at #2!
Our English speaking visitor can read this interesting interview in English by clicking HERE, while our Italian readers can enjoy it HERE.
Here’s an interesting excerpt from our exclusive chat with Chiara:
MadonnaTribe: You now have a new solo single out, Nothing At All, that debuted in the Italian singles chart at #2.
Nothing At All is a brand new and original song with a production that is partly inspired by Madonna’s Confessions Tour rendition of Erotica. This has caused quite a controversy among some Italian Madonna fans, who have not the clearest idea of the difference between songwriting and composing vs producing, and how the syle and arrangment of a song is something different from its structure and melody.
Would you like to explain these difference a little better for our readers?
Chiara: Hi guys, first of all I’d like to thank you for the opportunity you’re giving me to express myself and reach Madonna fans through MadonnaTribe.
As you know I’m a big fan of Madonna and I listen a lot to her music. Each artist is influenced and absorbes a lot of what he lives and loves and Madonna herself has shown us how writing music and the way to “manufacture” pop music has changed.
I think that writing Hung Up on Abba’s Gimme Gimme and the references to Moroder and Pet Shop Boys on her latest studio album are pure genious.
Citing Madonna was a risk for me, because she’s not only an icon from the past but she’s an icon of the present and future! Maybe she hasn’t been given the total recognition she deserves as the great artist she is. Madonna can be seen as a cultural and musical milestone and a reference since a long time.
Too many attacks, too much bad criticism. My song is lyrically and melodically an original creation. It has nothing to do with anything she wrote.
The chords used are a common standard often used in pop music. If you notice even our song Festival uses the same armonic progression.
This explains that a good pop song often uses the same
three main chords, but it’s the melody that makes the difference. Then, I was deliberately inspired by the feel and the atmosphere of the new live version of Erotica with those synth sound at the beginning of the song.
This led some people to think my song was very similar to Erotica, but factually it’s not like that at all.
MadonnaTribe: Why did the “Confessions’ version” of Erotica touch you so much to the extent of inspiring the arrangement of Nothing At All? As you probably know this was the first time Madonna reworked live this demo version of Erotica commonly known among fans as You Thrill Me.
Chiara: Nothing At All came to me one night, it was the end of June or the beginning of July 2006. I didn’t feel well at the time. I was on my computer and I was checking the first images of the Confessions Tour that were circulating on the web and then I heard that version of Erotica. I never heard it before. I was a bit depressed for a series of reasons so I burst into tears, it was like getting a punch in your stomach.
Sometimes songs are born like that, with a great deal of pain that you have to get rid of. It was a long time I didn’t write in that state. I was crying and something pushed me to put down those words. “Nothing at all” is my story, it’s everything I lost.
And it’s also what I’ve learned from a love story that put me on my knees. I know for sure that this wound will never go away.
MadonnaTribe: And then you saw the Confessions Tour live.
Where did you see the show? And what do you think about it? Do you find it different from Madonna’s previous ones?
Chiara: I attended one of the concerts in London with a friend of mine. Each of her shows is a journey full of emotions.
I was madly in love with the Drowned World Tour but Confessions is pure beauty.
It’s pure energy and she is among the few artists in the world to reach such a striking scenic perfection.
Please click on the image below to read the full interview.
Chiara‘s new single “Nothing At All” is out in the stores right now.
Nothing At All is also available to download from all iTunes music stores of the European Union for 0.99 €
and from iTunes UK for 0.79£.