Mi Ami Mi Odi
by Elodie
How to study this song
The card for “Mi Ami Mi Odi” is built from 69 study entries at B1-: 33 Italian words, 5 adjectives and 31 verb forms. Begin with rumore, bugie and sapore: get those and most of the lines stop being guesswork. This one leans on its verbs: 31 distinct forms against 5 adjectives, so conjugation is where the effort goes. At this level part of the list will already be familiar; the rest is what closes the gap.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rumore | noise | ruido | bruit | ruído, barulho | lawaai, geluid | Lärm, Geräusch |
Adjectives
| IT | EN | ES | FR | PT | NL | DE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dolce | sweet | dulce | doux, sucré | doce | zoet | süß |
This card holds 4 more adjectives. You meet them when you play the song.
Verb forms
| IT | EN | ES | FR | PT | NL | DE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ti sento | I feel you, I hear you | te siento, te oigo | je te sens, je t’entends | sinto-te, ouço-te | ik voel je, ik hoor je | ich spüre dich, ich höre dich |
What this song teaches you
Level · B1-
- Vocabulary words
- 33
- Adjectives
- 5
- Word combos
- 22
- Expressions
- 13
- Verb forms
- 31
- Quiz questions
- 35
Background
About the song
«Mi ami mi odi» is a song by the Italian singer Elodie, released as a single on 4 April 2025 by Island Records. It runs three minutes and thirty-one seconds. A month later, on 2 May 2025, it gave its name to her fifth studio album, where it sits as track five; on this page the title means the song unless the album is named. Elodie wrote it with Elisa Toffoli — the singer-songwriter known simply as Elisa — Jacopo Ettorre and Dario Faini, who works under the name Dardust and produced the track together with Cripo. Reference pages file it under electropop and dance pop, and the Italian site All Music Italia described its sound as a mix of pop, electronic and orchestral colours.
The title is two short sentences placed side by side: "you love me, you hate me". The whole song lives in the gap between them. The narrator senses her partner even in silence and remembers sweet-tasting lies, a name played like notes on a sampler, a relationship that offers no cover when the weather turns bad. She cannot work out which of the two feelings is the true one, and after a while she stops asking: she turns down the voices around her, dances, and admits that being rescued by him has stopped mattering very much.
A second thread runs under the love story. The verses complain about men who speak in her place as if they knew her thoughts, about cheap headlines that smear a reputation, and about a life that was never meant to be an opening night or a catwalk. Italian commentators read these lines as a remark on the price of fame; the site Soundsblog also linked the title to the Latin poet Catullus and his famous two-word confession of loving and hating at once.
Musically the track moves from a hushed, almost whispered opening to a club chorus and an English-language chant in the middle section that simply invites the listener to move. For a learner of Italian it is a compact tour of verb forms: the present of the title, a future used for a doubt about tomorrow, an imperfect for a remembered flight, a gerund, and one imperfect subjunctive after the words that mean "as if".
Did you know?
The official video was directed by Attilio Cusani, with creative direction by the choreographer Laccio, and arrived online the night the single came out. Rolling Stone Italia summed it up with three words — the cross, eroticism, the club — and reported that it shows «Erotica», one of four versions of Elodie created for the album campaign. The other three are «Magnetica», «Audace» and «Galattica», and each one gave its name to an edition of the record.