Fil Bo Riva’s new single is now available on digital platforms. “I Like You” is one of the most intense songs on Fil Bo Riva’s new album, Modern Melancholia. The protagonist struggles with what is possibly the most famous line in pop music – and achieves the truth through this omission.
The answer to the question of why Fil Bo Riva’s music has such an immediate effect that even the grandest songs sound like intimate confessions can be found in the title of his latest single: “I Like You”, not “I love you”. Although, of course, it’s a song about love.
“I’d rather sing ‘I like you’ three times than ‘I love you’ once,” says Fil Bo Riva, “because I’ve rarely been able to reveal my emotions outside of the song.” An extremely honest confession that is typical of Fil Bo Riva. The Italian-German singer, musician and composer is very committed to the truth. He is not interested in clichés or superficial expressions of emotion.
This is what makes Fil Bo Riva’s upcoming album Modern Melancholia so profound, and the new single “I Like You” owes its intensity to this approach: we hear a gently pulsing bass, a lightly Afrobeat-inspired beat, a psychedelic keyboard. Fil Bo Riva sings melancholicly and with an insane intensity that reveals his real concern: “I’m never gonna break your heart/’Cos I like you, I like you, I like you a lot.”
Last but not least, “I Like You” reveals a lot about traditional conventions and images of masculinity when Fil Bo Riva sings, “I wish I could cry, but a man doesn’t sigh, you know.”
However, her voice has everything that Fil Bo Riva sometimes lacks in itself: it is full of emotion and, at the same time, engaging, melancholic and powerful, penetrating and sincere to the deepest corners.
Fil Bo Riva’s new single is the best proof: with a voice like that, “I Like You” says more than a thousand vows of love sung without feeling.
In late 2024, Fil Bo Riva will embark on a European tour. While we wait for the concert schedule, “I Like You” is now available on digital platforms.
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