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“I Won’t Do U Like That” by Landon Sears (2021)

November 3, 2021 By Hannah Raisner, FSU '25

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Landon Sears’ song “I Won’t Do U Like That” (released in September 2021) includes the lyric “I can’t live in this hell, I’m not Dante.”
Listen to the full song on YouTube or Spotify (requires log-in).
Contributed by Robert Alex Lee, Florida State University ’22

Categories: Music
Tagged with: 2021, Hell, Hip Hop, Kentucky, Music, Pop Music, United States

Lil Nas X, “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)”

April 14, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

The music video for Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” has drawn many comparisons to Dante’s Inferno for its depiction of the singer’s descent to hell (and eventual lap dance of Satan). Here are a few quotes from media outlets:

“2021 is here, purgatory is (almost) over, and Lil Nas X is our Dante.”   –Halle Keifer for Vulture

“Artists have been imagining trips to hell for hundreds of years without anyone raising too much fuss, but then Dante wasn’t a gay black pop star. Also, as far as anyone knows, Dante didn’t promote the Divine Comedy by selling a limited-edition sneaker made with human blood, which is the approach Lil Nas X has been taking with ‘Montero.’ On Friday, news broke that Lil Nas X and MSCHF had collaborated on ‘Satan Shoes,’ a limited release of modified Nike Air Maxes decorated with pentagrams and a reference to Luke 10:18 (‘And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.’) They’re only making 666 individually numbered pairs of shoes, and each one is made with a drop of real human blood. Not surprisingly, Nike wants everyone to know they had nothing to do with any of this.”   –Matthew Dessem in Slate

“In the ‘Montero’ video, Lil Nas X journeys from Garden of Eden to Dante’s inferno by sliding down a stripper pole (truly, twigs is correct in calling it iconic) [. . .].”   –Meagan Fredette for W Magazine

Watch the video on YouTube (accessed April 14, 2021)

 

Categories: Music, Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2021, African American, Battleships, Electropop, Hell, Inferno, LGBTQ, Music, Music Videos, Pop Music, Satan

Uffizi Galleries’ TikTok video featuring Dante and Virgil

March 27, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“This TikTok video by the Uffizi Galleries uses works by Emilio Demi and Carlo Albacini and the song ‘Gotta Go My Own Way’ from Disney’s hit 2007 movie High School Musical 2. It plays on the moment Virgil leaves Dante in Purgatorio.”   –Contributor Kate McKee

The TikTok video was posted on Dantedì (March 25) 2021 in honor of the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death.

Contributed by Kate McKee (Bowdoin College ’22)

Categories: Digital Media, Music
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Dantedì, Disney, Florence, Italy, Musicals, Pop Music, Purgatorio, Purgatory, Social Media, TikTok, Uffizi, Videos, Virgil

“Tutti pazzi per Dante,” puntata di La lingua batte (RAI Radio 3)

March 27, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“‘Tutti pazzi per Dante’ è il titolo della puntata odierna della Lingua Batte alla luce delle innumerevoli iniziative e pubblicazioni previste per il settimo centenario della morte del poeta #Dante2021. Con l’occasione si inaugura una nuova rubrica, Dante tascabile, in cui il linguista Giuseppe Patota per 12 settimane terrà delle mini lecturae dantis che di concludono tutte con una canzone pop, a conferma delle infinite declinazioni di popolarità attribuibili allo scrittore fiorentino. Tra gli altri ospiti del conduttore Paolo Di Paolo lo studioso Enrico Malato, curatore della Divina Commedia pubblicata dall’editrice Salerno, e Laura Banella che, per le Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, l’anno scorso ha firmato il saggio Rime e libri delle rime di Dante tra Medioevo e Rinascimento. Nello spazio musicale la cantautrice Flo presenta il suo ultimo album ’31salvitutti’. Infine, Cristina Faloci intervista l’italianista Giulio Ferroni a proposito del volume L’Italia di Dante. Viaggio nel paese della Commedia uscito per La Nave di Teseo nel 2019.”   –Description from RAI Radio 3

Click here to access the podcast episode, which aired on RAI Radio 3 on January 17, 2021.

Contributed by Carmelo Giunta

Categories: Digital Media
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, History, Italian, Italy, Literary Criticism, Podcasts, Pop Music, Radio

Hell O’Dante

September 13, 2020 By lsanchez

“Hell o’ Dante è uno spettacolo di narrazione che affronta l’Inferno in 34 serate ognuna dedicata a un canto.

Attraverso una rigorosa ricerca e il commento di brani pop-rock suonati dal vivo, Saulo Lucci sviscera le terzine e i personaggi in esse racchiusi, la situazione storica e le pene tanto mirabilmente dipinte così come il pensiero dell’autore dando nuova vita a tutto ciò, per riconsegnare agli spettatori la bellezza di una commedia che merita più di ogni altra mai scritta l’attributo di Divina.”    —Cine Teatro Baretti, July 17, 2020

Categories: Music, Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2020, Divine Comedy, Hell, Inferno, Italian, Italy, Music, Pop Music, Rock, Turin

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