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It's Christmas in the jet set

from Jet Set Roger - In the bleak midwinter by snowdonia

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Il mio personale contributo al genere natalizio è datato 2008; lo scrissi con in mente il crollo di Lehman Brothers, e la conseguente crisi dei mutui subprime. Sul momento voleva essere solo un brano ironico, dal taglio semiserio, sulla vicenda di uno yuppie trovatosi all’improvviso senza lavoro. Negli anni, tuttavia, con il drammatico acuirsi della forbice sociale nel mondo occidentale, la canzone ha assunto una valenza un po’ tetra, e nel nostro spettacolo suona un po’ come la profezia del dickensiano fantasma del Natale futuro. Così è diventata l’occasione per un breve momento di riflessione politica all’interno dello show: il manifesto delle renne per la fine del neoliberismo e l’avvento di una nuova socialdemocrazia di stampo keynesiano.

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It’s Christmas in the jet set (a political song)
(Testo e musica di Roger Rossini)

The snow is falling down
as I walk out of the building,
ten years packed up in a box.

They said that’s how it goes
with the market’s ups and downs:
sonny, you best pull up your socks.

The holiday streetlights are so bright
the tree is looking quite a sight.
A drink would help me to forget
it’s Christmas in the jet set

I was a Wall Street wizard
I used to raise a million
just with a click of the mouse

My fortune’s vanished in thin air:
I don’t even know
if I have still got a house

Happy shoppers pass me by
smiling as they go,
some kids are playing in the snow.
Me, I’m feeling so upset:
it’s Christmas in the jet set

I walked all down 6th avenue
like I was in a trance,
now I’ve got to take a pause.

My arms are badly aching,
so I drop this stupid box
by a puzzled Santa Claus.

Now it’s snowing heavily
I’m standing here quite miserably
and my feet are getting wet,
It’s Christmas in the jet set.

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from Jet Set Roger - In the bleak midwinter, released December 9, 2022
Roger Rossini: Voce, pianoforte, chitarra elettrica
Angela Kinczly: Voce
Kika Negroni: Voce
Nicola Carraro: Chitarra acustica
Davide Mahony: Basso
Mauro Carraro: Batteria

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