Ubriaca means 'drunk' and specifically refers to a female. It's an interesting word because it immediately sets a scene and mood for the song, hinting at a night of revelry and perhaps blurred lines.
In the context of the song, the singer describes a woman who is 'ubriaca' and smiling, dancing behind a cigarette's smoke. This word choice is key to painting a vivid picture of a carefree, intoxicating encounter at 'Cabana'.
"Cabana" is about a night that keeps circling the same person. She is barely there — "Ubriaca, mi sorridi appena" (Drunk, you barely smile at me), "Nascosta dietro il fumo di una sigaretta" (Hidden behind the smoke of a cigarette) — and Irama can only watch her across a crowded floor while the room drops away: "Mentre tutto intorno rallenta, il rumore si ferma" (While everything around slows down, the noise stops).
The chorus turns the word cabana into a place neither of them leaves. Almost every line lands on it — "Dentro i tuoi occhi, cabana" (Inside your eyes, cabana), "Mentre ti spogli, cabana" (While you undress, cabana) — and then says the same thing twice, once about her and once about himself: "E non tornerai, cabana" (And you won't come back, cabana), "E non tornerò" (And I won't come back). The second verse is four bare gerunds, "Ballando / Bevendo / Fumando / Ridendo" (Dancing / Drinking / Smoking / Laughing), a whole night listed as its ingredients. By the end he is still trailing her — "Ti seguo ad ogni passo" (I follow you at every step) — and still asking "Dimmi dove stai andando" (Tell me where you're going).
Irama is the stage name of Filippo Maria Fanti, an Italian singer born in Carrara, Tuscany, in 1995, who moved with his family to the Monza area as a child. He first tried Sanremo in 2016 in the newcomers section with "Cosa resterà " and was knocked out early.
His break came in 2018, when he won the seventeenth edition of the TV talent show Amici di Maria De Filippi. That same year his EP Plume went triple platinum, carried by the hit "Nera". He has been a Sanremo regular since, with "La ragazza con il cuore di latta" in 2019, "La genesi del tuo colore" in 2021, "Ovunque sarai" in 2022, where he finished fourth, and "Lentamente" in 2025. His ballads lean on big, aching choruses, and his summer singles like "Mediterranea" go the opposite way.