Lenzuola translates to "bedsheets." While seemingly mundane, its use in this song is quite striking and memorable.
In the lyrics, the singer confesses, "Non ho lavato le lenzuola per un mese giuro / Solo perché sopra c'era ancora il tuo profumo" (I swear I haven't washed the bedsheets for a month / Only because your scent was still on them). This line vividly conveys a deep, almost obsessive longing and an inability to let go of a past love, making the ordinary word "lenzuola" carry significant emotional weight and intrigue.
“Ti Amo Ti Odio” invites us onto an emotional roller-coaster where love and resentment keep changing places at break-neck speed. Over pulsing beats, GionnyScandal stares at a photo of his ex, convinced that without her his life has lost its meaning. He hovers over the “send” button, only to freeze when he sees her smiling on social media. That single image sparks a tidal wave of conflicting feelings: he clings to unwashed sheets that still carry her perfume, smokes the stub of her cigarette just to “touch” her lips, and even contemplates shouting declarations of love beneath her window. Yet jealousy flares the moment he imagines someone else beside her, turning tender memories into raw fury.
Beneath the dramatic gestures lies a confession of vulnerability. The singer openly admits he still lies to friends about having moved on and even credits his ex for shaping the person he’s become. Ultimately, the chorus repeats like a desperate mantra—“A volte ti amo e a volte ti odio” (“Sometimes I love you and sometimes I hate you”)—capturing the universal tug-of-war between holding on and letting go. By the final refrain, he concedes she will never return, but the song leaves us with a poignant truth: the thin line between love and hate is often drawn by the ones who change us most.
GionnyScandal is the stage name of Gionata Ruggieri, an Italian singer, songwriter and rapper born in 1991 in Pisticci, in the southern region of Basilicata. His childhood was shaped by loss: adopted as a toddler and raised in Seregno just north of Milan, he lost his adoptive father at four, his mother at eleven, and in 2012 the grandmother who had brought him up. Those years became the raw material of almost everything he writes.
He started making a name for himself in the Italian rap scene around 2010 and released his first studio album, "Haters Make Me Famous vol. 3", in 2011. Since then he has become one of the defining voices of Italian emo rap, a style that sets melodic, sung hooks against blunt and confessional lyrics, and he has collaborated widely, including with pop veteran Max Pezzali. "MI MANCHERAI" arrived in 2023, one of the singles that led into his "Black Mood 2" project.