Flamenco paranoia
Samurai Jay, Vito Salamanca
How to study this song
The card for “Flamenco paranoia” is built from 79 study entries at A2: 43 Italian words, 4 adjectives and 32 verb forms. Start with the glossary: acqua, ancora and anni come up again and again, so they are the ones to know first. This one leans on its verbs: 32 distinct forms against 4 adjectives, so conjugation is where the effort goes. At this level the goal is recognition: hear a word, place it, keep going.
The words of this song, in several languages
Every word below is taken from this song and translated by us. Nothing here is the lyric itself — these are the individual words you need in order to follow it.
Vocabulary
| IT | EN | ES | FR | PT | NL | DE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| acqua | water | agua | eau | água | water | Wasser |
| ancora | still, again | todavía | encore | ainda | nog | noch, wieder |
| anni | years | años | années | anos | jaren | Jahre |
| balaclava | balaclava | pasamontañas | cagoule | balaclava |
What this song teaches you
Level · A2
- Vocabulary words
- 43
- Adjectives
- 4
- Word combos
- 10
- Expressions
- 10
- Verb forms
- 32
- Quiz questions
- 35
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Background
About the song
Samurai Jay is Gennaro Amatore, born in Mugnano di Napoli in October 1998. He came to rap through the Neapolitan group Co'Sang and started making noise with an EP in 2018; his single with Geolier was the first of his records to enter the Italian singles chart and went gold.
He has spoken openly about being bullied badly as a teenager, and about music being the thing that gave him a way through. That plain-spoken quality is still there in what he writes.
"Flamenco paranoia" is the third single from Amatore, the album he made with producer Vito Salamanca, released on 22 May 2026 on Island and Universal Music Italia. It sits second on a thirteen-track record and runs two minutes forty-four.
The album is the one that carried him to the 76th Sanremo Festival with a different song, and it brings in Federica Abbate, Serena Brancale and Sayf as guests.
The song itself is a break-up that will not close. Someone counts days, then months, then years; asks for a reason to try to forget; and keeps circling the same face. The production leans Latin, which is where the Spanish word in the title comes from — the record even has another track named with a Spanish phrase.
For a learner of Italian this is a compact, useful text.
The future tense turns up three times over in the same shape, there are imperatives with the pronoun stuck on the end, and a couple of subjunctives sitting quietly in the middle of ordinary sentences — plus everyday nouns you can picture: coffee, water, smile, thoughts.
Did you know?
The title mixes two languages on purpose: a Spanish word for a Spanish dance next to an Italian one for an obsession that will not let go.
Vito Salamanca is not a featured singer. He is a producer, credited beside the rapper as co-author of the whole album.