Piove in discoteca
by Tommaso Paradiso
How to study this song
Learning “Piove in discoteca” means 59 entries at A2- — 32 Italian words, 7 adjectives and 20 verb forms, every one taken from what the song actually says. Start with the glossary: ragazzo, vespa and camicia come up again and again, so they are the ones to know first. This one leans on its verbs: 20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ragazzo | boy, young man | chico | garçon | rapaz |
What this song teaches you
Level · A2-
- Vocabulary words
- 32
- Adjectives
- 7
- Word combos
- 19
- Expressions
- 12
- Verb forms
- 20
- Quiz questions
- 35
Background
About the song
«Piove in discoteca» is a single by the Roman singer-songwriter Tommaso Paradiso, released on 27 May 2022 by Island Records; that is the date given by Italian Wikipedia and by the press notes published that week. It runs three minutes and thirty-one seconds. Paradiso wrote it with Davide Petrella and Dario Faini, and Faini produced it under the short signature DRD, although most listeners know him as Dardust. Reference pages file it under dance pop, and a review quoted on Italian Wikipedia called it very danceable from the first listen.
The title means «it is raining in the disco», and the song is a holiday romance told in quick, film-like shots. The press release, repeated by magazines such as TV Sorrisi e Canzoni, described two people in love who meet on an island to be together far from everyone, with nothing around them but the sun and the sea of the Gulf of Naples, in a classic Italian summer. The first verse introduces them one at a time: a young man racing on a scooter with his shirt undone and dark glasses on, trying not to miss the last boat of the day, and a young woman who is already laughing in the distance, in a white swimsuit and a wide hat that shades her face.
Then the setting comes into focus. The phone has no signal in front of the bay, and the singer trusts the patron saint of Naples, who is said to grant a favour now and then. In the chorus his declaration of love changes the weather: rain falls inside a nightclub, stars drop into a hotel, and he offers to hide the moon so that nobody can see the two of them. The sky above is described as Italian with a touch of America, a mixture that runs through much of Paradiso’s writing.
The second verse piles up more impossible pictures — a sunset seen in the morning, the feeling of a football crowd in Buenos Aires, an ocean with all its colours — and ends on a simple wish: that two people like them should never lose each other. For a learner the grammar is friendly. Almost everything is in the present tense, with one imperfect, a negative command built with «non» and the infinitive, and an imperative with a pronoun attached to it. The vocabulary is a summer suitcase: clothes, the sea, the sky and the days of the week.