Thoughts on @daviddamiano99‘s ‘Funny Little Fears’ for @NME – Måneskin man shoots for Harry Styles moment with classy pophttps://t.co/N7WFK2sQFp
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It seems weird that Måneskin frontman Damiano David’s debut solo album would land on Eurovision weekend, given that the past Italian victors have done so well to escape and thrive outside of the shadow of the cheese-romp song contest. Since their victory in 2021, the band have won love from the likes of Iggy Pop and Tom Morello and arenas full of fans that have probably never heard the words “douze points!”
Proving himself all over again, here stands David free from any of the rock’n’roll tropes that found him fame – and nearly ruined him. “In the last few years, we worked a lot and I was starting to lose the focus… I was basically making myself unhappy, and I was doing pretty good at it,” he told NME about the journey of “cutting out all the excess” that led to this solo venture.
He also collaborated with Suki Waterhouse on a song, and with his girlfriend Dove Cameron. Maneskin fans are unhappy and they’re spamming all his social media telling him to stop singing this “shubi dubi” crap and go back to rock. He told them to STFU. And at a recent concert he said people are begging him to go back to rock and he said “I can perform rock whenever I want, you know why? Because I’m fucking good at this job.” Lmao
