Cerotto literally translates to "band-aid" or "plaster". It's an interesting word because it takes a common, everyday item and uses it in a deeply metaphorical way.
In the song, the artist sings, "E vorrei metterti un cerotto sul cuore" (And I would like to put a band-aid on your heart). This line beautifully conveys the desire to heal emotional pain, using a simple object to represent comfort and repair for a broken heart.
Buonanotte ("Good Night") is GionnyScandal's ode to a love that ended but never really left him.
He tells his ex he'd promised himself not to get too attached, then lost his mind over her anyway. Now that she's gone, he still says goodnight to her out of habit, hugging his pillow and pretending it's her, replaying the old promise that things would last forever.
The chorus keeps circling back to that nightly ritual: missing her, hating the songs that remind him of her, and hoping that if he ever gets the chance, he'll go find her again wherever they lost each other.
It's a quietly heartbroken song about loving someone you've already lost, and still whispering good night to them anyway.
GionnyScandal is the stage name of Gionata Ruggieri, an Italian singer, songwriter and rapper born in 1991 in Pisticci, in the southern region of Basilicata. His childhood was shaped by loss: adopted as a toddler and raised in Seregno just north of Milan, he lost his adoptive father at four, his mother at eleven, and in 2012 the grandmother who had brought him up. Those years became the raw material of almost everything he writes.
He started making a name for himself in the Italian rap scene around 2010 and released his first studio album, "Haters Make Me Famous vol. 3", in 2011. Since then he has become one of the defining voices of Italian emo rap, a style that sets melodic, sung hooks against blunt and confessional lyrics, and he has collaborated widely, including with pop veteran Max Pezzali. "MI MANCHERAI" arrived in 2023, one of the singles that led into his "Black Mood 2" project.