Has any performer there chosen a rock or metal song?
No. Italy is not exactly the country of hard rock and heavy metal. The music, that’s very popular, I’m not talking about, of course, the underground scene, where there are quite many metal bands and there are very good ones but the music you hear on the radios or on TV is very different. It’s like this poppy-melodic Italian shit. (Laughs.) It’s hard, actually, for bands like us to become popular over there. We actually had to go out and become successful in Europe first and then in the US, before Italy discovered us. They’re like: “Oh, you’re Italians?” Yeah, we are! Now I must say that it’s starting to change a lot. We get our songs used for, I don’t know, TV spots or commercials sometimes but nobody has covered any of our songs in a show like that yet. Maybe you will revolutionize the Italian music scene. Heh, let’s hope so. (Laughs and has his fingers crossed.) As this was a kind of cover of your song then how do you feel about covering in general, like “Enjoy the Silence” you were
