By Marco Rossi, Italian Music Historian
Italy has given the world opera (Verdi), classical (Vivaldi), and pop (Celentano). But perhaps its most honest contribution is a 1998 techno remix about a pig in a yard. It is vulgar, it is repetitive, and it is utterly, profoundly human. la troia nel cortile work
In response, the producers released an edited "clean" version titled (The Animal in the Courtyard Works). It flopped even harder than the 1983 original. The public did not want a polite sow; they wanted the raw, vulgar, working-class troia . By Marco Rossi, Italian Music Historian Italy has
A DJ known only as "Maurizio il Bovaro" (Maurice the Cowherd) spliced the a cappella chorus of "La Troia" over a stolen loop from German techno act Scooter. He added the word "Work" – not because he spoke English, but because he had a broken sampler that kept repeating a vocal sample from an old Donna Summer record. In response, the producers released an edited "clean"
The phrase in context is: "La troia nel cortile / La troia che fa lavoro / Notte e giorno work, work, work."
la troia nel cortile work, meaning, lyrics, remix, Italian folk song, working class anthem.