LISTEN TO: Italian artist’s GionnyScandal’s new song ‘Nicotina’ feat. Pierre Bouvier

by Dominika | May 8th, 2021 | no comments

During his time in the pandemic, Pierre Bouvier tried to keep himself busy by getting involved in multiple music projects outside of Simple Plan, helping out talented new and also some established artists and working with them to make their new releases better. One of these artists, a 29-year-old Italian singer/rapper GionnyScandal, who’s made his name known in Italy all the way back in 2011 with his first album, which then immediately topped the Italian TOP 10 best-selling records on iTunes of that time.

GionnyScandal was the one to contact Pierre on his Instagram, with zero hopes that his message would even be read. To his surprise however, Pierre not only read his message, he replied and a collaboration between the two artists was suddenly underway. Pierre worked with GionnyScandal via videochat and together they came up with the chorus of the song ‘Nicotina’, which Pierre is also featured on.

Read what GionnyScandal said about this collaboration with one of his favorite musicians:

“I have his poster in my bedroom, I told myself that to give credibility to a project of this kind I have to rely on one of the greatest exponents of the genre, and it doesn’t cost anything to try. So, without going through the bureaucracy of the record company, I wrote to him on Instagram directly, asking to do a piece with him. [After I lost all hope] and after twenty days, he simply replied: ‘Yes, let’s do it.’ I called everyone as if I had won the lottery! I sent him a piece already complete, he answered me after another 15 days, he gave me his number and we did the feat on a video-call writing the ‘Nicotina’ refrain with the chords. I was struck by the fact that he is a very humble rock star and this paradox is great. Later, on Whatsapp, he thanked me for having him on my record and that was crazy because for me it was exactly the opposite. I think I will print and hang that Whatsapp screenshot on my wall.”

– GionnyScandal [source] –

The song ‘Nicotina’ (feat. Pierre Bouvier) is featured as track no. 6 on GionnnyScandal’s new album “Anti”, released on May 7th 2021. Check out the full song below and make sure to let us know what you think: