YMMV / Caparezza

• Bizarro Episode: "Kevin Spacey" from Il sogno eretico is the only song without a hint of Conscious Hip Hop and is instead dedicated to spoil as many movies as possible.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: His early albums as "Mikimix" were actually a success in France, while in his home country of Italy they were largely ignored. If you open a Mikimix video on youtube, half comments are from nostalgic French people, the other half from Italians puzzled at the large number of French comments they see.
• Growing the Beard: Literally. As the young, clean-shaven "Mikimix", he only sang innocuous rap songs about trivial arguments... then he let his hair and beard grow and became Caparezza, who rejected his past persona since he disowned the mainstream of music and began singing about politics and society's problems, enjoying a LOT MORE success and critical acclaim.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Part of the Viral Marketing (see the Trivia tab) made to promote the "Il sogno eretico" album was a fake blog of a conspiracy theorist that in one of its entries talked about the natural catastrophes that were going to destroy Earth one day. Said album was released on March 1, 2011... 10 days before the Tohoku earthquake in Japan that caused massive floods and the Fukushima nuclear incident.
  • Speaking of conspiracy theories, the song "La fine di Gaia" ("Gaia's End") from that same album mocks them, similar beliefs and the people who spread them in order to make money. Since 2011, those fringe beliefs grew in an uncontrollable way thanks to the power of social networks, to the point they have become a legitimate concern outside of the internet as well. And, with the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic, conspiracies about the virus' spread and fake advice about non-existent cures for it have made those beliefs literally life-threatening.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The music video of "Jodellavitanonhocapitouncazzo"^note A pun on "jodel" and "I didn't understand a fuck about life" has the nurses, band members and Caparezza's grandfather dancing during his funeral, over 10 years before the Dancing Pallbearers meme broke out.
  • The music video of "Abiura di me", published in 2008 and aesthetically based on the first TRON movie, anticipated its sequel TRON: Legacy only by two years.
  • "Bonobo Power", telling how humanity finally acheives world peace by reverting to docile bonobos, embracing a life of complete hedonism without wars or prejudices, is hysterical considering how it anticipated of a decade the "Return to Monke" memes.
  • In "Ti sorrido mentre affogo" ("I smile to you while I drown") he says "If the theater is full, the movie sucks". The one and only movie he appeared in, What A Beautiful Day, was at the time (2011) the highest-grossing Italian film ever. No word from him on whether it sucked or not...
  • In "Avrai ragione tu" Caparezza jokingly says "I've got a Che Guevara shirt and I'm going to CasaPound!". Since CasaPound is a notorious far-right Italian organisation, it's clearly intended to be a joke about a suicidal move... if it wasn't for the fact that, barely a month after the album's release, CasaPound orginased a celeberation to Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, a completely unexpected decision which shocked the Italian political ambient. Because of CasaPound's rabid anti-americanism, many of their members are actually admirers of left-wing historical figures.
• Ho Yay: Nothing can stop him from flirting with his lead guitarist Diego Perrone during live shows. More than a few people have suggested that the two are Closet Gay and dating each other.
• Misaimed Fandom:
  • "Fuori dal tunnel" ("Out of the tunnel"), his Star-Making Song, is a famous example. The song quickly became a summer hit and extremely popular in clubs and at parties, when the lyrics are actually targeting conformist nightlife made of frenetic and exhausting "entertainment." Caparezza also lamented how several TV shows used the song as opening theme without his permission.
  • "Vieni a ballare in Puglia" ("Come Dance in Apulia") is sometimes mistook as a "hymn" to Caparezza's native land. The song is actually about dramatic social scourges of his land, mentioning episodes of environmental disasters, workplace deaths and exploitation of migrants. There's a lot of anedoctes about people in Apulia using it as dance music at weddings.
  • "Legalize the Premier" has a discrete fanbase among those in favour of legalization of marijuana and other drugs. It doesn't help that the song is in reggae genre, features reggae artist Alborosie and references to marijuana are ubiquitous. The song is instead about politicians abusing their own positions for material gain.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The song "Io diventerò qualcuno" ("I will become someone"), sung in first person by a presumptuous kid who dreams of becoming a star, has the line "If you want to talk to me I'll add you to my Myspace". Back in 2009 it made sense to emphasis the Small Name, Big Ego mindset. A few years later, in The New '10s, Myspace fell into complete obscurity, even more so in Italy than the USA. Such line sounds nonsensical to someone unfamiliar with the internet culture of the time.

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