Mara Sattei - Scusa (prod. tha Supreme)

What this video is

Released 13 April 2021, 'Scusa' marks Mara Sattei's emergence as a solo artist in her own right, having previously accumulated over 26 million streams through her semi-anonymous 'Nuova Registrazione' series produced by her brother Tha Supreme (Davide Mattei). The single was released on Arista/Columbia Records Italy/Sony Music Italy and situates itself within a broader Italian pop renewal centred around the Bloody…

Why it matters

A landmark Italian indie-pop/cantautorato video of 2021 that signals the full aesthetic codification of the post-Bloody Vinyl Italian pop moment. Bendo's baroque-theatrical visual language here becomes a template for aspirational Italian pop video production in the early 2020s, bridging…

The director

Bendo is a Milanese directorial duo formed in 2016–2017 by Lorenzo Silvestri and Andrea Santaterra, childhood friends who transitioned from graphic design and art direction into music video filmmaking. They established themselves rapidly in the Italian music…