The Kolors, the lyrics of the English version of Italodisco (designed for the US market)


Italodisco marked the summer of 2023. Not only in Italy, but in all the countries where it entered the rankings: Switzerland, Lithuania, Germany, Russia. Now, however, The Kolors are preparing to make the big leap: contacted by Warner USA, they have put together a English version of the hit.

The English text of Italodisco

I try to answer my desires

Then stay up late with synthesizers

In the studio

But something’s missing in the wires

It’s like the music’s lost the fire

Had it all, let it go

When you were here, I never feared

And everything could disappear

And I would sit alone in silence (Silence)

I need to get back to the sound

That can lift me off the ground

I pray the speakers give my guidance (Guidance)

I trust you more than words can say

More than life, more than any DJ

Let’s go, I can’t resist

Italodisco, I must insist

But maybe we could start just by taking it slow

Then up the tempo

Under the moon’s glow, like moving shadows (Ah)

I know it’s not Ibiza

Four on the floor with my señorita

Got me looking high and low, but I can’t see her

But every time I think I do or I think of you

I hear Italodisco

I’m so distracted overthinking

So many questions in my head

Why’d you leave? Where’d you go?

I’m on the dance floor, but it’s sinking

And I don’t think my heart will float-oat-oat-oat

When you were here, I had no fear

But always music in my ears

You made my heart beat like no others

I miss you more than words can say

More than life, more than any DJ

Let’s go, I can’t resist

Italodisco, I must insist

But maybe we could start just by taking it slow

Then up the tempo

Under the moon’s glow, like moving shadows (Ah)

I know it’s not Ibiza

Four on the floor with my señorita

Got me looking high and low, but I can’t see her

But every time I think I do or I think of you

I hear Italodisco

(Disco, play Italodisco)

(Disco, play Italo–)

Tonight, we’re gonna dance till the sunrise

Moroder is in my blood

And my heart beats to the rhythm of the disco, Italodisco

I know it’s not Ibiza

Four on the floor with my señorita

Got me looking high and low, but I can’t see her

But every time I think I do or I think of you

I hear Italodisco

I hear Italodisco

But every time I think I do or I think of you

I hear Italodisco

A slightly different version

Stash, the frontman of The Kolors, said he was contacted by Warner Italia. The record label had just spoken to Warner USAinterested in launching Italodisco on the American market. So, between one hotel room and another, between one concert and another, the group worked on a “new” version of the single. In fact, it is not a true translation: the Italian references have been removed (from Righeira’s bass at Festivalbar), so as to give the text a more international flavour. But verbs like “resisto” and “insist” remained, Italianized on purpose. After Maneskin, therefore, another Italian group is preparing to conquer the United States. With different music, with a different rhythm, but with an extraordinarily similar dream.



Source-tg24.sky.it