İtalyan rock müziğini küresel boyutta ayağa kaldıran, Eurovision fatihi **Måneskin**'in henüz X Factor İtalya döneminde dünyayı sarsacağının ilk sinyali olan **"Chosen" (2017)** EP albümü, tam bir meydan okuma manifestosu. Damiano David'in o yırtıcı, seksi vokali, Victoria'nın yürüyen bas yürüyüşleri, Thomas'ın funky gitarları ve Ethan'ın dinamik davullarıyla bu albüm; cover şarkıları kendi ham rock/funk potasında eriterek sektöre *"Biz buradayız ve kuralları biz koyuyoruz"* diyor.

İşte Måneskin'in çocukluktan starlığa geçiş kapısı olan "Chosen" albümünün şarkı şarkı derin lirik analizi ve satır arası anlamları:

### 1. "Chosen"

 * **Ana Tema:** Seçilmişlik hissi, vizyon, sisteme başkaldırı ve özgüven.

 * **Ne Anlatıyor?:** Grubun kendi yazdığı bu imza şarkı, Damiano’nun *"Hi, everybody, this is Måneskin"* anonsuyla açılan bir gövde gösterisi. 17 yaşında sokaklarda çalarak başladıkları bu yolculukta, parayı veya lüksü değil, müziği bir "yaşam biçimi" olarak seçtiklerini haykırıyorlar. Kafalarındaki kontrolcü, statükocu "aptal insanlara" karşı kafalarında patlayan bir silah simgesiyle meydan okuyorlar. *"Sesim bir canavarın sesi, her şeyi almak istiyorum"* dizesi, grubun küresel müzik piyasasını ele geçireceğinin yıllar öncesinden yapılmış en net, en iddialı kehaneti.

### 2. "Recovery"

 * **Ana Tema:** Büyüme sancıları, özgürlük arayışı ve kendi küllerinden doğma.

 * **Ne Anlatıyor?:** Albümün gruptan çıkan bir diğer orijinal eseri. Sokaklarda, yataksız, üstünü bile değiştirmeden sadece müzik için yaşayan bir gencin gözü karalığını anlatıyor. Dünyaya karşı naif olduklarını ama 9-10 yıl içinde bilgeleşeceklerini söylerken, her türlü engeli ve çiti yıkacak bir "iyileşme" (recovery) sürecindeler. Şarkının ortasındaki *"Seni damarlarıma giren, tüm acımı alan kristal bir uyuşturucuya benzetiyorum"* barları, tutkunun ve bağımlılığın getirdiği o tatlı tehlikeyi anlatıyor. Utanç aynasından yansıyan o dışlanmışlık hissini özgürlüğe dönüştüren, ritmik bir kaçış öyküsü.

### 3. "Vengo Dalla Luna" *(Caparezza Cover)*

 * **Ana Tema:** Yabancılaşma, ırkçılık/ayrımcılık karşıtlığı ve evrensellik.

 * **Ne Anlatıyor?:** İtalyan rap-rock sanatçısı Caparezza'nın bu kült şarkısını Måneskin, funk-rock elementleriyle adeta baştan yaratıyor. *"Ben Ay'dan geliyorum"* metaforu, toplumun kendinden farklı olana (göçmene, sıra dışı olana, sanatçıya) duyduğu o pervers korkuyu ve nefreti tiye alıyor. Arabasının dikiz aynasına aziz figürü asıp sokakta farklı olanı ezmeye çalışan "küçük burjuva" zihniyetine, *"Sen sadece bu coğrafyada doğduğun için mi benden üstünsün?"* diye çok sert bir sınıfsal ve varoluşsal soru yöneltiyorlar. Milliyetlerin, renklerin ötesinde, dünyayı bir akıl hapishanesi olarak gören ve "Ben Ay'dan geliyorum, canımın istediği yerde yaşarım" diyen tam bir özgürlük marşı.

### 4. "Beggin'" *(The Four Seasons Cover)*

 * **Ana Tema:** Gururu ayaklar altına alan aşk acısı, çaresizlik ve yalvarış.

 * **Ne Anlatıyor?:** Orijinali 1967'ye ait olan bu şarkı, Måneskin'in ellerinde milyarlarca dinlenen küresel bir canavara dönüştü. Bir zamanlar "kral" gibi yaşayan, hayatı hızlı ve sert oynayan bir adamın, her şeyini kaybettikten sonra sevdiği kadının önünde diz çöküp yalvarmasını (beggin') anlatıyor. Damiano’nun rap vokallerle zenginleştirdiği orta kısım, içindeki kırılmış adamın (broken man) şeytanla bile dans etmeye hazır çaresizliğini kusursuz hissettiriyor. *"Neden iyi şeylere sahipken onları mahvediyoruz?"* sorgulaması, ego yüzünden yıkılan bir yuvanın ve bitmeyen bir umudun funk ritimleriyle süslenmiş dramı.

### 5. "Let's Get It Started" *(Black Eyed Peas Cover)*

 * **Ana Tema:** Katarsiz, mantığı devre dışı bırakmak ve saf eğlence.

 * **Ne Anlatıyor?:** Tamamen entelektüel kaygılardan, kuralcı geleneklerden ve zihinsel yüklerden sıyrılma şarkısı. Måneskin, hip-hop klasiği olan bu parçayı çiğ bir rock enerjisiyle dolduruyor. Ritmin hipnotik etkisiyle içindeki vahşi ruhu serbest bırakmayı, "aptallaşmayı" (get stupid) ve kontrolü tamamen kaybetmeyi öğütlüyor. Kulübün içinde, Bentley'lerin arkasında ya da hayatın tam ortasında kafaları sallayarak o anın tadını çıkarmayı hedefleyen, yüksek voltajlı bir parti fitili.

### 6. "Somebody Told Me" *(The Killers Cover)*

 * **Ana Tema:** Dedikodular, belirsiz ilişkiler ve gece hayatının kaos dünyası.

 * **Ne Anlatıyor?:** Indie-rock marşını alıp Damiano'nun kirli vokaliyle daha karanlık ve tekinsiz bir atmosfere taşıyorlar. Bir barda, bir kulüpte birinin ismini öğrenmek için canını dişine takan ama cennetten çok uzak olan o kaotik ortamı anlatıyor. *"Birisi bana senin bir erkek arkadaşın olduğunu söyledi, o da benim geçen yılki kız arkadaşıma benziyormuş"* şeklindeki o meşhur, karmaşık dedikodu satırları, modern ilişkilerin akışkanlığını, fluluğunu ve gecenin karanlığında kaybolan doğruları harika bir ritimle yüzümüze vuruyor.

### 7. "You Need Me, I Don't Need You" *(Ed Sheeran Cover)*

 * **Ana Tema:** Bağımsızlık manifestosu, sahteliğe rest ve lirik yetenek.

 * **Ne Anlatıyor?:** Albümün kapanışını yapan bu Ed Sheeran cover'ı, Måneskin'in endüstriye attığı en büyük tokat. Arkasına hiçbir büyük yapımcıyı almadan, hayalet yazarlar (ghostwriter) kullanmadan, tamamen kendi tırnaklarıyla kazıyarak buralara geldiklerini Ed Sheeran'ın o muazzam hızlı sözleriyle anlatıyorlar. Sektördeki "besteci/söz yazarı" geçinen sahtekarlara, şarkı listelerinde adı yazıp hiçbir şey üretmeyenlere karşı *"Sizin bana ihtiyacınız var, benim size değil"* resti çekiliyor. Binlerce konser verip koltuklarda yatarak büyüyen, müziğini MySpace ve YouTube videolarından stadyum boyutuna taşıyan bir ekibin, pop endüstrisinin kurallarını gitar ve davulla paramparça ettiği o epik final.

Maneskin - Chosen Albüm Şarkı Sözleri (2017)

"Chosen"

Hi, everybody, this is Måneskin

You're listening to "Chosen"

Listen clear now baby, yah yah

Cause it begins like...

I started when I was 17 and now I'm here brah, ya-ah

You don't even know what it means so let me explain yah, ya-ah

I go far very far from my dreams and now I believe ya, but I

But I don't need no money in my jeans, shocked to be an artist

One, two, three

This is not music, this is life, this is what I live for

So let me introduce myself cause I can't take no more

Here there's too many stupid people and they have control

I got a plan in my mind and I won't let go

I've got a pistol in my head pam pam pam shot

And I don't wanna hear you, so please shut up and now

Hey hey hey, follow me, follow me now

So hey hey hey, follow me, follow me now

So hey hey hey, follow me, follow me now

Listen now now now, now now now now

Follow me, follow me now

Hahaha...

One, two, three, yeah

I started when I was 17 and I'm not scared, I'm honest, ya-a-ah

And I know that it sounds cliche but this is my moment, this is my moment

And I don't care what people think cause I am born for that, ya-ah

Because my voice is the voice of a beast, I wanna take it all, man

So I'll take it all, man

This is not music, this is life, this is what I live for

So let me introduce myself cause I can't take no more

Here there's too many stupid people and they have control

I got a plan in my mind and I won't let go

I've got a pistol in my head pam pam pam shot

And I don't wanna hear you, so please shut up and now

Hey hey hey, follow me, follow me now

So hey hey hey, follow me, follow me now

So hey hey hey, follow me, follow me now

Listen now now now, now now now now

Yeah follow me, follow me now

Uh yeah yeah

Now now now now now now now now now now now

Follow me now

And follow me now

You follow me, follow now now now now now now now now

Hey hey hey, follow me, follow me now

Hey hey hey, follow me, follow me now

Hey hey hey, follow me, follow me now

Listen now now now now now now now now now

Follow me, follow me now

Follow me, follow me now

☆☆☆☆☆

"Recovery"

I am walking down my road

I'm sleeping without a bed

I am not changing my clothes

For my friends I'm a stranger

I won't slow down, down, down

I won't slow down, down, down yeay

I'm naif but I'll grow up

I will change my mind and then

I think in nine years or ten

I'll become a wiser man

I won't slow down, down, down

I won't slow down, down, down yeay

So you can follow me

Until they catch me and kill me out

It's my recovery

And we will forget of the clouds

Cause there's no hitch

No baby there's no fence

No baby there's no setback that will stop me

So you can follow me

Until they catch me, they catch me and kill me

O-o-out, o-o-o-o-o-out

O-o-out, o-o-o-out

Cause I am a poor man

And I can not read your mind

Baby I can't see what you think

Cause my eyes are blind

And I feel the wind is coming from the sea

But the birds still fly, I've got a secret to keep

Yes I feel the wind is coming from the sea

Yeah but the birds still fly, I've got a secret to shot

So you can follow me

Until they catch me and kill me out

It's my recovery

And we will forget of the clouds

Cause there's no hitch

No baby there's no fence

No baby there's no setback that will stop me

So you can follow me

Until they catch me, they catch me and kill me

O-o-out, o-o-o-o-o-out

O-o-out, o-o-o-out

Cause baby you're the ache

That comes right into my vein

You're like a super crystal drug

That takes away all my pain

You're a soldier but you'll never wear you armor again

Now you found freedom but now

Tell me who knows your name

Because I know how does it feels

To feel like you're reflected

From the mirror of the shame

And you feel like you're the last man

And you feel like you're suspected of a murder that you've never done

Now you found freedom but your freedom is just like a

Bum bilya bum bum, bilya bum bum

Bum bilya bum bum, bilya bum bum yeah

Bum bilya bum bum, bilya bum bum

Bum bilya bum bum bum... skrrrrt

Bum bilya bum bum, bilya bum bum

Bilya bum, bilya bum bum, bilya bum bum

Bum bilya bum bum, bilya bum bum

Bilya bum, bilya bum bum bum

So you can follow me

Until they catch me and kill me out

It's my recovery

And we will forget of the clouds

Cause there's no hitch

No baby there's no fence

No baby there's no setback that will stop me

So you can follow me

Until they catch me, they catch me and kill me

O-o-out, o-o-o-o-o-out

O-o-out, o-o-o-o-o-out

☆☆☆☆☆

"Vengo Dalla Luna"

(originally by Caparezza)

Io vengo, io vengo, io vengo

Io vengo dalla luna che il cielo vi attraversa

E trovo inopportuna la paura per una cultura diversa

Che su di me riversa la sua follia perversa

Ed arriva al punto che quando mi vede sterza

E vuole mettermi sotto 'sto signorotto

Che si fa vanto del santo attaccato sul cruscotto

E non ha capito che sono disposto man

A stare sotto man

Forse nemmeno quando fotto yeah man

Ma torna al tuo paese sei diverso

È impossibile vengo dall'universo

Perché la rotta ho perso, che vuoi che ti dica

Amico tu sei nato qui perché qui ti ha partorito una figa

In che saresti migliore? Fammi il favore compare

Qui non c'è affare che tu possa meritare

Sei confinato ma nel tuo stato mentale

Io sono lunatico e pratico dove cazzo mi pare

Io non sono nero

Io non sono bianco

Io non sono attivo

Io non sono stanco

Io non provengo da nazione alcuna

Ma io, sì, ti porto sulla luna

Io vengo dalla luna

Ma io vengo dalla luna

Ma io vengo dalla luna

Ma io, io, io e te

Ce l'hai con me perché ti fotto il lavoro

Perché ti fotto la macchina

O ti fotto la tipa sotto la luna ma

Cosa vuoi che sia poi

Non è colpa mia se la tua donna di cognome fa Pompilio come Numa

Ehi, dici che sono brutto

Che puzzo come un ratto, amico sei un coatto

E soprattutto non sei Paul Newman

E non mi tocca che di striscio la tua fiction

E piscio sul tuo show che fila liscio come il Truman

Ehi, ho nostalgia della mia luna leggera

Ricordo una sera, le stelle di una bandiera ma era

Una speranza era

Una frontiera era

La primavera di una nuova era era era

Stupido ti riempiamo di ninnoli da subito

In cambio del tuo stato di libero suddito

No

È una proposta inopportuna

Tieniti la terra uomo, io voglio la luna

Io non sono sano

Io non sono pazzo

Io non sono vero

Io non sono falso

Io non ti porto jella né fortuna

Ma io, sì, ti porto sulla luna

Io vengo dalla luna

Ma io vengo dalla luna

Ma io vengo dalla luna

Ma io, io, io

It's Måneskin

Non è stato facile per me trovarmi qui

Ero un ospite inatteso, peso indesiderato arreso

Ai complici satelliti che

Riflettono un benessere artificiale, sì artificiale, ehi

Luna sotto la quale parlare d'amore

Tu scaldati in casa davanti al tuo televisore

La verità nella tua mentalità

È che la fiction sia meglio della vita reale

Che invece è imprevedibile

Non è il frutto di qualcosa già scritto

Su un libro che hai già letto tutto

Ma io, io, io no, io, io, io

Io vengo dalla luna

Ma io vengo dalla luna

Io vengo dalla luna

Io vengo dalla luna

☆☆☆☆☆

"Beggin'"

(originally by The Four Seasons)

Put your loving hand out, baby

'Cause I'm beggin'

I'm beggin', beggin' you

So put your loving hand out, baby

I'm beggin', beggin' you

So put your loving hand out, darlin'

Riding high when I was king

I played it hard and fast, 'cause I had everything

I walked away, you won me then

But easy come and easy go and it would end

So, anytime I bleed, you let me go

Yah, anytime I feed, you get me know

Anytime I seek, you let me know

But I planted that seed, just let me go

I'm on my knees when I'm beggin'

'Cause I don't wanna lose you

Hey, yeah, ra-ta-ta-ta!

'Cause I'm beggin', beggin' you

Uh, put your loving hand out, baby

I'm beggin', beggin' you, ah

And put your loving hand out, darlin'

I need you to understand

Tried so hard to be your man

The kind of man you want in the end

Only then can I begin to live again

An empty shell, I used to be

The shadow of my life was hangin' over me

A broken man that I don't know

Won't even stand the devil's dance to win my soul

What we doin'? What we chasin'?

Why the bottom? Why the basement?

Why we got good shit, don't embrace it?

Why the feel for the need to replace me?

You're the wrong way track from the good

I want to paint a picture tellin' where we could be at

Like a heart in the best way should

You can give it away, you had it and you took the pay

But I keep walkin' on, keep openin' doors

Keep hopin' for, now the door is yours

Keep also home

'Cause I don't want to live in a broken home, girl, I'm beggin'

Mmm, yeah-yeah, yeah, I'm beggin', beggin' you

So put your loving hand out, baby

I'm beggin', beggin' you

So put your loving hand out, darlin'

I'm fighting hard to hold my own

Just can't make it all alone

I'm holding on, I can't fall back

I'm just a calm, 'bout to fade to black

I'm beggin', beggin' you

Put your loving hand out, baby

I'm beggin', beggin' you

So put your loving hand out, darlin'

I'm beggin', beggin' you

So put your loving hand out, baby

I'm beggin', beggin' you

So put your loving hand out, darlin'

I'm beggin', beggin' you

So put your loving hand out, baby

I'm beggin', beggin' you

So put your loving hand out

☆☆☆☆☆

"Let's Get It Started"

(originally by Black Eyed Peas)

In this context

There's no disrespect

So when I bust my rhyme

You break your necks

We got five minutes

For us to disconnect

From all intellect

Call it the rhythm effect

To lose your inhibition

Follow your intuition

Free your inner soul

And break away from tradition

'Cause when we been out

Girlies pull they weave out

And you wouldn't believe how

We wow shit out

Burn it till it's burned out

And take it till it's turned out

Acted up from north, west

East, south

'Cause everybody

Everybody

Just get into it

And get stoned

You get started

You get started

You get started

Let's get it started in ah

Let's get it started in here

Let's get it started in ah

Let's get it started in here

Let's get it started, ah

Let's get it started here

Let's get it started in ah

Let's get it started in here

Hey, hey

So lose control

Of body and soul

Don't move too fast

People, just take it slow

Don't get ahead

Just jump into it

Y'all hear about it

Ja, Das Peas'll do it

And get started

And get stupid

You want me body, people

We walk you through it

Step by step

Like you're into New Kid

Inch by inch

With the new solution

They transmit hits

With no delusion

The feeling's irresistible

And that's how we move it, so

Everybody

Everybody

Let's get into it

And get stupid

You get started

You get started

You get started

Let's get it started in ah

Let's get it started in here

Let's get it started in ah

Let's get it started in here

Let's get it started, ah

Let's get it started here

Let's get it started in ah

Let's get it started in here

Yeah

Let's get ill

That's the deal

At the gate

We'll bring the bar top drill

Just lose your mind

This is the time

Y'all test this drill

Just to bang your spine

Just bob your head like me, Apl.de

Up inside your club

All in your Bentley

So, get messy

Loud and sick

Y'all mount past slow-mo

In another head trip

So, come n-now

Do not correct

And so, let's get ignant

Let's get hectic, yeah

And everybody

Everybody

Just get into it

And get started

You get started

You get started

You get started

Let's get it started in ah

Let's get it started in here

Let's get it started in ah

Let's get it started in here

Let's get it started, ah

Let's get it started here

Let's get it started in ah

Let's get it started in here

Oh, yeah

☆☆☆☆☆

Somebody Told Me"

(originally by The Killers)

One, two, three, four

I'm breaking my back just to know your name

Seventeen tracks and I've had it with this game

I'm breaking my back just to know your name

But heaven ain't close in a place like this

Anything goes but don't blink, you might miss

'Cause heaven ain't close in a place like this

I said, heaven ain't close in a place like this

So bring it back down, bring it back down tonight

Never thought I'd let a rumor ruin my moonlight

Yes, somebody told me that you had a boyfriend

Who looked like a girlfriend that I had in February of last year

It's not confidential, I've got potential

Rushing and rushing around

Ready, let's roll onto something new

Taking its toll then I'm leaving without you

'Cause heaven ain't close in a place like this

I said, heaven ain't close in a place like this

So bring it back down, bring it back down tonight

Never thought I'd let a rumor ruin my moonlight

Yes, somebody told me that you had a boyfriend

Who looked like a girlfriend that I had in February of last year

It's not confidential, I've got potential

Rushing and rushing around

Pace yourself for me

I said maybe, baby, please

But I just don't know now (Baby, baby)

When all I wanna do is try

Well, somebody told me that you had a boyfriend

Who looked like a girlfriend that I had in February of last year

It's not confidential, I've got potential

Rushing and rushing around

Somebody told me that you had a boyfriend

Who looked like a girlfriend that I had in February of last year

It's not confidential, I've got potential

Rushing and rushing around

☆☆☆☆☆

"You Need Me, I Don't Need You"

(originally by Ed Sheeran)

Now I'm in town, break it down

Thinkin' of makin' a new sound

Playin' a different show every night in front of a new crowd

That's you now, ciao, seems life is great now

See me lose focus as I sing to you aloud

And I can't, no I wouldn't hush

I say the words that make you blush

I'm gonna sing this now

Now, now, now, now, now, now

See I'm true, my song is where my heart is

I'm like glue, stick to other artists

I'm not you, now that would be disastrous

So let me sing and do my thing

And move to greater pastures

See, I'm real, I do it all, it's all me

I'm not fake, don't ever call me lazy

I won't stay put, give me the chance to be free

'Cause Suffolk sadly seems to sort of suffocate me, man

'Cause you need me, man, I don't

You need me, man, I don't-don't-don't

You need me, man, I don't

Man, I don't, man, I don't need you

You need me, man, I don't

You need me, man, I don't-don't-don't

You need me, man, I don't

Man, I don't

Yeah, I sing and write my own tune, and I write my own verse

Now don't need another wordsmith to make my tune sell

So call yourself a singer-writer, you're just bluffing

Name's on the credits and you didn't write nothing

I sing fast, I know that all my shit's cool

I will blast and I didn't go to Brit School

I came fast with the way I act, right

I can't last if I'm smokin' on a crack pipe

And I won't be the product of my genre

And my mind always be stronger than my songs are

So never believe the bullshit that fake guys will feed to you

Always read the stories that you hear on Wikipedia, yeah

And musically I'm demonstrating

When I perform live, feels like I am meditating

Times at the Enterprise when some fellow filmed me

A young singer-writer like Gabriella Cilmi

'Cause you need me, man, I don't

You need me, man, I don't-don't-don't

You need me, man, I don't

Man, I don't, man, I don't need you

You need me, man, I don't

You need me, man, I don't-don't-don't

You need me, man, I don't

Man, I don't

'Cause with the lyrics I'll be aiming it right

I won't stop till my name's in lights

At stadium heights with Damien Rice

On red carpets, now I'm on Arabian Nights

Because I'm young I know my brother's gonna give me advice

A long nighter, short height, and I goin' hyper

Never be anything but a singer-songwriter, yeah

The game's over but now I'm on a new level

Watch how I step on the track without a loop pedal

People think that I'm bound to blow up

I've done around about a thousand shows

But I haven't got a house, plus I live on a couch

So you be the loons when I'm singin' them out

From day one, I've been prepared

With VO5 wax for my ginger hair

So now I run back to Suffolk, givin' a dose of what the future holds

'Cause it's another day

Plus I'll keep my last name forever, keep this genre pretty basic

Gonna be breakin' into other people's tunes when I chase it

I replace it with the elephant in the room with a facelift

To another rapper's shoes using new laces

Sellin' CDs from a rucksack aiming for the papers

Sellin' CDs from my rucksack aiming for majors

Nationwide tour with Just Jack, soon as I get the bus back

Clean-cut kid without a razor for the mustache

I hit back when the pen hurts me

I'm still a choir boy in a Fenchurch tee

I'm still the same as years ago, but more people hear me, though

According to the MySpace and YouTube videos

I'm always doing shows, if I'm not, I'm in the studio

Truly broke, never growing up, call me Rufio

Melody music maker, reading all the papers

They say I'm up-and-coming like I'm fuckin' in an elevator

'Cause you need me, man, I don't

You need me, man, I don't-don't-don't

You need me, man, I don't

Man, I don't, man, I don't need you

'Cause you need me, man, I don't

You need me, man, I don't-don't-don't

You need me, man, I don't

Man, I don't, man, I don't

'Cause you need me, man, I don't

'Cause you need me, man, I don't

'Cause you need me, you need me, you need me, man, I don't

'Cause you need me, man I don't

You need me, man, I don't

You need me, you need me, you need me, man, I don't need you