Balorda nostalgia
Olly & Juli
How to study this song
The card for “Balorda nostalgia” is built from 70 study entries at A2+: 24 Italian words, 7 adjectives and 39 verb forms. Start with the glossary: nostalgia, sera and signora come up again and again, so they are the ones to know first. This one leans on its verbs: 39 distinct forms against 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nostalgia | longing, nostalgia | nostalgia | nostalgie | nostalgia | heimwee | Sehnsucht, Heimweh |
| sera | evening | tarde, noche | soir | noite | avond | Abend |
| signora | lady | señora | dame | senhora | mevrouw | Dame |
| sigaretta | cigarette | cigarrillo | cigarette |
What this song teaches you
Level · A2+
- Vocabulary words
- 24
- Adjectives
- 7
- Word combos
- 4
- Expressions
- 10
- Verb forms
- 39
- Quiz questions
- 35
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Background
About the song
Olly won the 2025 Sanremo Festival with «Balorda nostalgia», a break-up told entirely through the furniture. The sofa, the remote control, an extra plate laid at dinner, a television switched on for company — the song never argues, it just lists what is still in the wrong place. The word in the title is unusual: a nostalgia that is not sweet but shabby, the kind that makes you feel worse rather than better.
Did you know?
The conditional of «to want» appears eleven times in a row in the bridge, and the song ends not with «I love you» but with the gentler Italian phrase reserved for affection that outlasts the romance.
Charts & streaming
Released on 12 February 2025, during the 75th Sanremo Festival, which it won. Sanremo winners routinely top the Italian singles chart in the week that follows.