Netflix - The Life Ahead : Discover the Lo Si (Seen) new music video

By Mulder, 15 april 2021

The Lo Si (Seen) music video reflects what we have lived through for the past year-plus, shows the hope we have as well. Diane Warren’s song “Io Si (Seen)” from The Life Ahead (starring Sophia Loren) garnered Warren her 12th Oscar nomination. Looking back at the events of 2020 and 2021, Warren wanted to release this special video to reflect the hurt and the hope that we've all have experienced. Lo Si (Seen) reminds us also that even in the midst of darkness, there is hope when we are there for each other. There is healing and comfort in allowing ourselves to truly see one another, and in turn, experience the gift of being “seen”.

Lo sì (Seen) is a song written by Diane Warren, Laura Pausini and Niccolò Agliardi, and recorded by Pausini for the soundtrack of the 2020 film The Life Ahead. The song was produced by Greg Wells and released as a digital single on 23 October 2020. On 30 October 2020, the song was released for airplay to Italian mainstream radios. Lo sì (Seen) won the awards for Song of the Year at the Capri Hollywood International Film Festival, Best International Song at the CinEuphoria Awards, Master in Music Award at the Los Angeles Italia Film Festival, Outstanding Song – Feature Film at the 11th Hollywood Music in Media Awards, Best Original Song at the 25th Satellite Awards and the award with the same name at the 78th Golden Globe Awards (the first non-English song to win the award and Pausini the first Italian singer ever to win the prize). It also received nominations for Best Original Song at the 93rd Academy Awards, making it the first song sung entirely in Italian to be nominated, and Best Original Song both at the 66th David di Donatello Awards and at the 19th Gold Derby Awards.

Lo sì (Seen) is a power ballad. Diane Warren wrote the original version of the song, with English-language lyrics, specifically for the film The Life Ahead, and involved Pausini in the project during the summer of 2020. After watching the film, Pausini accepted to perform the song, identifying herself in its message about diversity and against prejudice and racism. Pausini translated the song in Italian with her frequent collaborator Niccolò Agliardi. Despite being used to compose instinctively, Pausini and Agliardi worked on the lyrics adaptation for 25 days, since she wanted to be sure to respect the film's meaning. The song was produced, mixed, with most instruments played by Greg Wells, and recorded in Romagna in Pausini's home studio built in her parents' house. The film only features the Italian-language version of the song, but it was also recorded by Pausini in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.

Lo sì (Seen)
Single by Laura Pausini
Released : 23 October 2020
Length : 3:54mns
Label : Warner MusicAtlantic
Songwriter(s) : Diane Warren, Laura Pausini, Niccolò Agliardi
Producer : Greg Wells

The Life Ahead
Directed by Edoardo Ponti
Produced by Carlo Degli Esposti, Nicola Serra, Regina K. Scully, Jamie Wolf
Screenplay by Edoardo Ponti, Ugo Chiti
Based on The Life Before Us by Romain Gary, Madame Rosa by Moshé Mizrahi
Starring Sophia Loren, Ibrahima Gueye
Music by Gabriel Yared
Cinematography : Angus Hudson
Edited by Jacopo Quadri
Production companies : Palomar, Impact Partners, Artemis Rising, Another Chance Productions, Foothills Productions
Distributed by Netflix
Release date : November 6, 2020 (United States), November 13, 2020 (Italy)
Running time 95 minutes

(Source : press release)