Fuorionda
by Jovanotti
The card to reach for when you want Italian's if-sentences to finally click. se fuggissi is an imperfect subjunctive and vorrei vivere is a conditional, and Italian pairs exactly those two tenses to talk about what is not the case. Learners usually know both forms separately and still assemble them wrongly; hearing the pair used properly is what fixes it. There is also an impersonal construction in si muore, where si stands in for a subject nobody names and English would reach for one or you instead. The nouns are ordinary city life: strada, scuola, lavoro, cucina, porta. B2+ is honest, and Jovanotti sings fast.
How to study this song
“Fuorionda” carries 44 Italian words, 9 adjectives and 38 verb forms — 91 study entries in all, graded B2+. Begin with male, ambulanza and protagonista: get those and most of the lines stop being guesswork. This one leans on its verbs: 38 distinct forms against 9 adjectives, so conjugation is where the effort goes. At this level the words on their own are not the problem — it is the way they are put together that takes the work.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| male | pain | dolor | mal | dor |
What this song teaches you
Level · B2+
- Vocabulary words
- 44
- Adjectives
- 9
- Word combos
- 11
- Expressions
- 10
- Verb forms
- 38
- Quiz questions
- 35
Background
About the song
“Fuorionda” is a 2025 Italian pop single by Jovanotti (Lorenzo Cherubini), one of the most influential and long-running artists in Italian music. Over decades he has blended pop, rap, funk and world music into an upbeat, optimistic style.
The title is broadcasting jargon worth knowing: a fuorionda is an off-air moment, something caught by a microphone the speaker believed was closed — the Italian equivalent of a hot mic.
Jovanotti has been recording since the late 1980s, moving from rap to funk to acoustic pop without ever settling, and his lyrics are dense with wordplay. That is what pushes the card to B2+: the individual words are common, but the images pile up quickly and the phrasing is deliberately unliteral.
It appeared on 10 January 2025 as the herald of the album “Il corpo umano (Vol. 1)”, out three weeks later, and was written with Dardust, who also produced it.
Did you know?
Jovanotti is celebrated for his energetic live shows and for constantly reinventing his sound across a career spanning several decades.
Charts & streaming
Jovanotti has been a fixture of the Italian charts since the late 1980s, with a catalogue of certified albums, several number-one records and the long-running Jova Beach Party, which drew hundreds of thousands of people across its editions.