“Mille” (a thousand) was the summer hit of 2021 in Italy. The rapper Fedez and the glam-rock singer Achille Lauro teamed up with Orietta Berti, a beloved singer who had been famous since the 1960s, for a retro-pop song that sounds like an old summer on the Italian coast — a love story told with a wink and a fizzy drink.
The unlikely trio was the point: three generations of Italian pop together, and the song played everywhere that summer. Italians have a word for this kind of song: a “tormentone”, the summer hit you can't escape.
The lines are short and repeated, with clear voices, so it's an easy B1 listen. And you'll learn tormentone — a word that only makes sense in Italy.