“BLU” is the new song by ORTEL, a talented and young Neapolitan author-performer, already praised by the Spotify charts and playlists [awarded for 1 million total listens; “Quel bellissimo falso” 140 thousand streams; “Nostalgia” a award of 500.000 streams; “È colpa mia” over 100.000 streams], which for many teenagers is now the favorite jukebox/compass. An unreleased single that almost “closes” the 2023 of the Neapolitan singer-songwriter and which represents in all respects “a song to learn solitude”.
This is how the 22-year-old artist tells it.
“The first line is: “You and I watching a movie from afar, and we don’t care which one” because it was this image that triggered the beginning of the song. It was only right that it become the incipit of the new single.
My current girlfriend and I, over a year ago (when we weren't together yet), each found ourselves at home and decided to watch a movie from a distance. At the same time. And the truth is that I didn't care at all which movie we chose to watch. Any movie would have been fine as long as I watched it with her. At the end of the movie we were dead tired: "You know we're going to fall asleep at the end", voilà. Simple as a smile".
“BLU” is the song that indicates a real moment of pause, intended as both an interval between two people and as a suspension from all that is daily. It is no coincidence that the choice of the title and that of the graphic layout is a projection that invites you to pause. Blue is a color that inspires calm and trust, creating a sense of tranquility in the one/one who watches. Blue of the sea, blue of the sky. Peace of mind. “Just like the flow of my song: carefree and soft”.
Zero fights, zero wealth, zero violence, zero machismo, zero arrogance in this song that is sweet but not harmless, delicate but not saccharine, fragile but not surrendering. "BLUE", Ortel specifies, “it tells of that moment of absence between me and this girl who one day had decided to stay away.
At that moment my awareness was born: and so “Una favola che non esiste più”. I was lucky enough to be able to work on this song with C4lesse (Alessio Ammiratore), my dear friend and excellent producer/sound engineer who supported me to the point of creating a tailor-made dress for the song. Not too casual and not too elegant. The right aesthetic and perceptive balance. Together we chose to give the single a fresh, ironic mood, without insisting on the melancholic quality of the story. Many will understand this flash because it is something that happens every day. The interruption of a relationship, the unexpected and learnable solitude”.
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