Celebrating Maledetta Primavera, the Italo Schlager That Became a Queer Anthem.

How Loretta Goggi's hit has been adopted as the ode to lost love, missed chances, and self determination

Florals for spring? Not for Loretta Goggi’s Maledetta primavera.
The song narrates a toxic relationship, where the arrival of spring is meant to portray the sensual but violent power of nature reawakening from its slumber. “What remains of an erotic dream if, upon waking, it has become a poet?” she asks herself in the second half of the first verse.

On TV, Goggi was already known as an actress and comedian, especially as an impersonator. A former child actress, she achieved her first mainstream recognition as the voice actor of Looney Tunes’ Tweety and in the 1968 Italian TV adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, which had a viewership of 20 million.