- I was on my ugly side of the face.
- I was mulitari.
- Mulitari?
- [Damiano And Ethan] Mulitari.
- Thomas never changed.
- Thomas is exactly the same.
- So is the same from he was 18.
- My name is Thomas Raggi.
- My name is Damiano David.
- My name is Victoria De Angelis.
- My name is Ethan Torkio.
- Hi, I'm Thomas.
- I'm Damian.
- I'm Victoria.
- I'm Ethan.
- We are Maneskin.
- Ooh.
- Or Mane skin.
- As you like. - Mane skin.
- Mane skin is bad.
- Yeah, yeah, the US version.
- [All Together] Maneskin.
- It's the Italian mispronunciation.
- Yeah.
- And it means like aggressive.
- Aggressive, yeah.
- In Italian.
- Fight. - So it's quite weird.
- How to say our name?
- Moneskin.
- Moonlight and Danish.
- Moonlight.
So romantic.
- Yeah.
- Today is 29 October, 2021.
- [All Together] Today.
- It's October 29.
- Yes.
- 2022.
- I am 20 years old.
- I'm 22.
- I'm 21, yeah.[chuckling]
- I'm 21.
- 21 years old.
- I'm 23 years old.
- I'm 22.
- Ugh, I'm 22 as well.
- So old, oh my God.
We have 5.6 million.
6.3 Million.
- Yeah. We just checked.
[all chuckling]
- [All together] Beggin'.
- [Damiano] Yeah.
- It's like seven, 700 millions, something like that.
- More than 1 billion.
- 1.1 billion.
- It's crazy. - It's strange.
- Weird, yeah.
- And it's helpful - Unexpected.
- He's like, when we came here and at airport
when they like ask you questions
like why are you in America and stuff?
And then every time they're like, okay
so what's your band name?
And they don't know.
And I'm like, you know, beggin'
And they're like, oh, okay, yeah, you can go through.
Our most viewed video on YouTube
is the one from Torna a Casa with 137 million views.
- I will say I Wanna be Your Slave.
- I think.
- I Wanna be Your Slave.
- No, I think Zitti e Buoni.
- Zitti e Buoni.
- Oh yeah, Zitti e Buoni.
- Or, I Wanna be Your Slave. - Are you sure?
- No, I think Zitti E Buoni or Torna A Casa.
- I'm conflicted.
- Yeah?
- Torna A Casa, really?
- Still Torna A Casa.
- Torna A Casa.
[speaking Italian]
- Wow. - Instagram.
- [Ethan and Thomas] Instagram.
- Twitter.
- Oh, Twitter?
- Yeah.
- Instagram. - Twitter.
- Yeah, Instagram also.
- Even if it's toxic as fuck, I like Twitter.
- No, that's not true, YouTube.
[all laughing]
I love YouTube.
[all laughing]
- That's right, this is actually right.
- Thomas every night before he goes to sleep.
- I'm addicted to YouTube.
- He watches all these weird videos on YouTube.
- I'm totally addicted to YouTube.
- Reddit. - Reddit?
- Reddit.
- You use Reddit?
- A lot.
- Not at all. - No, absolutely not.
- Not at all.[blowing raspberry]
- Oh, not?
- I don't give a shit.
- Man, from our band account, it's like a lot of work.
- Yeah, but like I don't really care
how many likes and comments. - Yeah, exactly.
- Oh no, not that.
But that we have to do it. - And stuff.
- That's 'cause it's me, it's me doing it.
- No. - No.
- Just fans.
- Fortunately not.
- No, we don't have.
What is this face?
- No, we don't have it.
- [Damiano] Yeah, yeah, we don't need it.
- Why did you say this?
- No, we don't need it.
[speaking Italian]
- Okay, no, cause it's true because once Ethan came to us
and he's, okay we should name our fans,
but I don't even remember what was it?
- Yeah, I don't remember the name.
- The name of our fans.
- Yeah.
- Was moon lighters.
- And we were like, no, don't say that ever again.
- You see why we don't have it?
- Yeah, it's better to just.
- Yeah, fans. - Nameless.
Miley Cyrus.
- Yeah.
- Machine Gun Kelly.
- Yeah.
- Charles Leclerc.
- Yeah.
- Beck. - [Victoria] Chris Martin.
- Chris Martin.
Olivia Rodrigo, as well.
- Olivia. - Yeah.
- Tough Cameron.
- Many.
- Yeah, many.
- [Thomas] Yeah.
- In my personal account I think it's Demi Lovato.
- Demi Lovato maybe, yeah. - Yeah.
- I don't know.
- For Maneskin I don't know.
- Or Rosalia, I dunno.
- I think always maybe Miley Cyrus.
- Yeah.
- Madonna.
- No clue, yeah, I think Madonna.
- Yeah.
We don't check it like very often.
So like every time we see like famous people texted us
and we're like, what the fuck, we didn't answer.
- Yeah, we're like, fuck, this person texted us
two months ago, we haven't replied.
- Many things.
- I don't know.
For now maybe like playing at Jimmy Fallon was very,
very cool.
- Yeah.
- I think four nominations at AMAs.
- Yeah, that was crazy also.
- Yeah, that was grand. - Also opening the Stones,
all the festivals we played.
- [Damiano] Rock and Rio,
- Rock em Rio, Rock em Ring, all those, Lollapalooza.
Many good things.
Like in the past year we were told like so many times
by people from the industry that we had to change,
that this wasn't working.
This kind of music is not mainstream nowadays
but we kept doing what we believed in.
So now we're like reaching all
of this success internationally is like something so
that we're so grateful for.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Oh my god, so wise.
- We look so depressed.
- We were very sweet 'cause I think
it was like our first time in America,
so we were like, okay, we have to do all these interviews
and say intelligent things.
So we're really like serious now.
We're just idiots, like.
- Yeah, that's true.
- Yeah.
- It's our answers in the interviews.
- Yeah, but we look depressed actually.
We look very sad. - Not depressed,
we were serious.
- No.
- Sad, but in a sad way.
- But the Jet lag, you know?
- Yeah, yeah, I think we were jet lagged.
- Yeah.
- We're one of the first Italian artists
who made what we made, so I feel really successful.
- I think we also learned like a lot how
to cope with it like in a better way.
Everything just immediately blew up, so we were so excited.
But also we had like really high expectations.
I remember like when we released new songs
I was like constantly like checking how well it was doing
and stuff like that, well now
I think we're like way more relaxed
and just understood that there are other things
that are more important.
It's going amazing, but we're just less pressed
I think about like, okay, it has to be amazing.
It has to be on the top all the time.
It's just like enjoying what's going on.
- In one word, just one.
- I will say, fresh. [laughing]
- Fresh.
- Cool.
- Cool
- Cool.
- Amazing.
Oh my God, we're so clever.
- What you said?
- Fresh, cool, amazing.
- I will say Moneskin, really.
- Energetic.
- Oh my God, what am I gonna say?
- I think it's intelligent what I'm gonna say.
- Okay.
- Don't judge me, okay?
- Okay.
- Free.
- Okay, good, good. - Yeah, it's cool.
- Now I'm fucked 'cause I don't know what to say.
- I like that, I like free.
What can I say?
- [Damiano] Aye, aye, aye.
- Oh my God.
- [Damiano] Aye. - Raw.
- Raw, yeah.
- Go, rah, rah, rah, rah, rah.
- Good answer.
- New.
- Ah, good, good.
- Makes sense.
- These year's answers were better.
- Just guitar.
- None.
- The-
- I'm gonna say just bass 'cause once I say
that I also play guitar and they made fun of me.
[all laughing]
'Cause I'm not that good, but-
- That is not true.
- I can't play it, I studied it for years.
I can't play it.
- Cause it's.
- [Thomas and Damiano] Not true.
- Fuck off.
- I don't know, like I really like to play
like all the instruments that exist
but of course I'm the drummer.
So maybe the bit mixed one, yeah.
- Just play the guitar.
- No, no, no, that's not true.
And also play beat of drums.
- No, I mean, no.
In my mind play is like when you, you know,
discover the all instruments.
- You know this gesture, is the Italian gesture
for nothing.
Just my.
- Your voice. - Vocal cords.
- Means nothing.
- Okay, me, so I don't get bullied here.
- Yeah.
- Well only bass, but badly also bit
of piano and a bit of guitar, but very badly.
- Professionally talking, I'm the drummer
so I play the drums and I also play a bit of bass.
- No, you play base well.
- Yeah, you play bass really well.
- I played bass also, yeah.
- Trying to steal my job here.
- Always.
I don't know, also bit of piano, keyboards.
I produce in general, so I need to play like all instruments
even if badly I don't care, I just need a sound, you know.
- Iconic.
[all laughing]
- Humbled.
- I will say the same, iconic.
- Oh my god, Thomas, who do you think you are here?
- No, iconic, we are the old band, right? [laughing]
- [Victoria] Iconic?
Very often.
- Very often, yeah.
- We don't look casual.
- Sometimes it's cool, sometimes it's not.
I think it grown a bit here in the US since last year.
But like Italy and Europe, it's pretty much the same
and still same answer, sometimes people are very kind
and enjoyable and sometimes they're not.
I went to my favorite club football match
and I was like all covered
and I had like this fake glasses.
I didn't get recognized.
- You have a special one for that.
When you just turn into a guy and started dancing.
- Ah, it's true, okay, 'cause this summer.
- [Thomas] Whoa.
- This summer we went in Pula, which is like this city
in south of Italy where we're very famous there
and it's like this popular party
where everyone just hangs out in these squares.
So I wanted to go with my friends,
but it was really like a lot of people.
So I had all my hair up in this cap
and all my friends said I look like Leonardo DiCaprio.
So I was there just dancing in the middle of the square
with like all the old people
and no one could see it was me, it was very fun.
- [All Together] Ooh.
- A tough one.
- Yeah.
- I don't know, I would say
maybe my favorite is I Wanna Be Your Slave.
- My favorite maybe it's For Your Love.
- The next one that will come out.
- For me maybe Zitti E Buoni.
- I will say Zitti E Buoni 'cause I think
that is very important for us it is a very symbolic song.
So yeah, I will say Zitti E Buoni.
- Probably I think The Loneliest it's the best.
- Oh yeah.
- Nice.
I think I Wanna Be Your Slave.
- Yeah, I Wanna Be Your Slave.
- Oh, I think maybe if you count the shitty ones.
- Yeah, more or less 20.
- More, I think more like 30, 40, yeah.
If you count the shitty ones.
- Yeah.
- Now if you count the shitty ones.
- [Damiano] It doubles. - It's hundred, like.
- Yeah, like let's say like 60, 65.
- Yeah, 60 for sure. - Yeah.
- I would say like about 10.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, or something like that.
- Oval [laughing], zero.
- Can we say it?
- No, no, zero, we just finished the.
- Yeah, no, we finished the record.
- So like, we're done.
- We always try to like challenge ourselves,
especially when we are in the writing process, but like
with trying different sounds with the pedals, gear and stuff
but also like just trying different writing methods
and starting off from, I don't know
a drum groove, other times or a melody, we always try.
- Guitar base. - To try different things.
We're very open with it.
- Wow, resting.
[all laughing]
- A bit of holidays.
- Which is gonna be very challenging.
- Oh, I think when we played some festivals this summer
where it was like about 30, 40,000 people.
- Yeah but the -
- It was quite big.
- The biggest one was the open up for the Imagine dragon.
- Oh yeah, right.
- 60,000.
We played in Rome at circus Maximum
for 70 plus thousand people, yeah.
- [Victoria] It was crazy, yeah.
- You couldn't even see like the the end.
You could feel like the ground shaking
when people were jumping and stuff, so.
- Crazy thing was just to think
that all those people were there only for us.
And it was like in Rome, which were our home country.
And last time we played in Rome it was like for 3000 people.
So to see like how much everything changed just
in a couple years was like really emotional.
- Recently?
- [Man] Recently.
- It's not for myself, but lingerie.
- Okay cool.
- Lingerie, sorry.
We're in the UN.
- I don't know, I think clothes,
but I don't remember anything specific.
- She just go there and bam, bam, bam.
- Exactly, I want all.
- Yeah, that's true.
- Ah, yeah, yeah I remember maybe one jacket with the.
- [laughing] The US flag.
- Yeah exactly.
- With the US flag jacket.
- Yeah exactly, with the flag of the United States and.
- Actually you didn't buy that, I bought it for you.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[Thomas and Victoria laughing]
- For me it was cymbal for the drum and I had.
- A house, yeah.
- Probably has a house.
Let's say the same.
- Yeah, I was thinking about a house.
- Or either, no, no house.
- Yeah.
- What is yours?
A lamp?
The weird lamp.
- No, I bought an iPad.
Yeah, my first one.
Your car is more expensive than the iPad.
- My what? - Yeah, exactly.
- Your car. - My car?
What do you mean, with my car, why my car?
- Your car is more expensive than an Ipad.
- An expensive thing?
- Yeah.
- Oh, sorry.
Sorry, yeah, the car.
Yeah, my car.
- The car.
- Yeah, I love it.
- The car and the lamp.
I love my car.
- Almost on same level.
- Also the lamp, yeah.
- Absolutely the band.
And in the second point I think my friend
and my family also.
- Yeah, friends and family.
My girlfriend and my, I don't know, relatives, yeah.
- And not us, bitch?
- You're you're in the group friends.
- Okay. - Thank you.
I don't know if you know it, but,
[all laughing]
actually you should be my friend.
- Yeah, I would say the same.
Just like family, friends and the band.
- Yeah, go buy a personality.
[all laughing]
- Same formula, friends, family.
- I will say just great good music.
- Friends and family, my girlfriend.
Friends and family and girlfriend.
I'm Italian, I mean, you know.
- You're good heart.
- I'm a mom child.
- For me just to have fun and enjoy what we're doing
and really like, don't stress too much.
What's the most important thing for you?
- You know, like we all go into something in a certain way.
So I think as long as you find a way to leave it
with a smile, then probably there's a reason to live for,
so I would say, be happy, just being happy.
- I think maybe winning the Eurovision.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- I think also stay here in the States.
- Yeah, opening for the Rolling Stones.
- Yeah.
- Mm, yeah.
- Also collaborating with the gift hub.
- Going to the Jimmy Fallon.
- Many things.
- Many things, we cannot decide.
- I dunno, maybe now at the moment, the possibility
to start our tour in the States.
It's really huge opportunity for us.
- I think like releasing the new record.
We've done so many crazy things
and you kind of get used to it
but then you have to like remember
that what makes you do all of this is just
like the music you are making
and what you're sharing with people.
We haven't released like our record for the past two years.
So it's gonna be like a very,
a big milestone I think in our life.
- Yeah.
- I agree with that.
- Modern rock, rockish.
- Yeah, glam rockish.
- Fresh rockish.
- New age rock.
- Glam rockish.
- Elegant glam rockish.
- I will say 70s.
- For the stage, I would say like rock elegant now.
- Rock elegant.
- I don't know what to say, God,
I'm really bad at this things.
- I know I have two personalities,
either old man suit or bitchy, bitchy rock. [laughing]
- Bitchy rock.
- Yeah, I would say like on stage
I'm very like glam rockish and stuff.
While, in my daily life I'm more into like seventies.
- Real estate.
- Yeah.
- Real estate vibe.
- A bit, yeah, a bit like that.
- 24 hours.
- But in the seventies.
- No, sometimes you wear all these.
- The seventies.
- Oh yeah, yeah. - Your new stuff.
- The muscle shirt.
- He wears these super tight shirts
and he's like exploding with his muscles.
- Yeah and the hat.
- And then the sunglasses.
- Sunglasses and the hat.
- Why are you saying that for the camera?
- For me, the English.
No, I'm joking.
- I would say like, I think the thing
that we learned is that we always have liked to believe
in ourselves and fight for what we think is true
and right for us.
- Cheesy.
- But it's true, bitch.
- Cheesy.
- I will say know lots of people from different cities,
you know and beautiful of different culture
and different person that it's so important.
- I think that no matter how big you get, you always,
you have to remain the person that you were before.
- [Damiano And Victoria] Cheesy.
- I know that.
- Italian rock music works.
- Yeah.
- Ooh.
- Sometimes you have to go with the flow.
Just go with the flow.
- My limits.
- I'd say like how to go cope with stress
and anxiety more.
- How to write good songs.
- Regret?
- Regret.
- No regrets.
- Not, not yet.
- Not learning how to play piano
when my mom signed me to piano lessons
and I was just a mean child.
I don't wanna do it, I wanna play football.
- You should have, you should have.
- So now I'm like average at football
but I can't play piano and I think
that the opposite would've been better.
- Probably.
I say still no regrets.
- Tug live.
- No, not yet.
- He wants to make his own regret.
- Exactly.
- Like in his thirties when it's too late
to make up for them.
- Group hug, group hug.
- Group hug.
- Hey.
- Come here a little bit close.
- I'm not really comfy with.
- Damiano doesn't like hugs.
- Yeah, with touch.
- No, I like hug.
- I don't like you.
[all laughing]