"Chiamami per nome" ("Call me by my name") is a song by Italian recording artists

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and

Fedez Federico Leonardo Lucia (born 15 October 1989), known professionally as Fedez (), is an Italian rapper, singer, songwriter, social media personality and businessman. In 2011, he released the albums ''Penisola che non c'è'' and ''Il mio primo di ...

, written by Michielin and Fedez with Davide Simonetta, Alessandro Raina, singer-songwriter

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and rapper

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. Produced by d.whale, the song competed in the 71st Sanremo Music Festival and was released by

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as a single on 3 March 2021. On 5 March 2021, two days after the song was released, "Chiamami per nome" debuted at number 2 on the Italian

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Singles Chart, before reaching the top of the chart the following week.

Background

Francesca Michielin and Fedez previously recorded two songs together, " Cigno nero" in 2013 and " Magnifico" in 2014, achieving commercial success and collectiong a total of eight platinum records in Italy. In Spring 2020, during the

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, Fedez invited Michielin to join him during an Instagram Direct for a live performance. Following the performance, they developed the idea to collaborate for a third time. The song was originally written by Michielin and Fedez, and later reworked by

, Davide Simonetta and Alessandro Raina. "Chiamami per nome" is also the second collaboration between Michielin and

after "

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". Michielin described "Chiamami per nome" as "a lovesong imbued with hope, dreams and anger". Fedez also considered it as a departure from their previous works together, with a less-classic structure, "a stylistic upgrade, a

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song with urban shades". Unlike "Magnifico" and "Cigno nero", "Chiamami per nome" also features singing contributions by Fedez, who only rapped in the previous songs with Michielin. Michielin explained the title refers to "the moments in which, during difficult times, people only want to be called by their own name".

Music video

The music video for the song was released on

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on 3 March 2021. Based on an idea by Michielin and Fedez, the video shows them performing the song in different

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, such as the

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, the Teatro Menotti, the Teatro Gerolamo and the

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. Show business workers also appear on the video, while setting the stage for a concert without any audience except for themselves. The video aims at highlighting the crisis of the live-music business generated by the

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. The video was directed by Antonio Usbergo and Nicolò Celaia.

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References

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