Dark, glamorous, transcendental trash, hard rock quartet from Rome, Maneskin are taking the internet by storm this summer.

 Last week, her version of Four Seasons' "Beggin " a cover Maneskin released four years before, topped Spotify's global charts and became a mainstay in the US Top 10. Almost entirely streaming. Before declaring this a triumph for rock, consider that Maneskin's cover of "Beggin" is awful and offensively awful. It's really a pit.

The song was written by Peggy Santiglia and Bob Gaudio. The latter was a member of a group called the Four Seasons. The Four Seasons were the first musicians to release a version of "Begin" in 1967. And her performance actually made it into the top 20 of her Billboard Hot 100.

So why did the Italian rock band's deafening cover of the 1967 Four Seasons hit, released on an EP in 2017, become the world's biggest song on Spotify in the summer of 2021? Of course. , it has to do with TikTok, but also with the Eurovision Song Contest, guessing a twist of fate. It's inversely proportional to my desire to hear it played again. So to explain what happened here, I'll give my colleague Tom Breihan's first column the best impression.

In Morneskin's "Beggin', the singer "begs" the addressee to "reach out a loving hand." In other words, he implores her to be willing to accept his love. But the singer arrogantly let her go. And, as shown, he now bitterly regrets that decision.

In fact, he seems to get philosophical in the third verse, questioning the human tendency not to appreciate when it's there. But at this very point he also seems to point out that the recipient is actually missing something by not accepting his love. I don't know exactly what it is, except that the singer clearly wants the person he's singing to. I come across as a man who has. In others, however, he reads like a true victim of unrequited love. Maybe he's presenting himself as the latter, trying to arouse sympathy from the apple of his eye.

But regardless of why she doesn't want him now, the fact remains that she actually sneers at him, at least as far as his mistress is concerned. It seems to keep "begging" the recipient to become his woman until he gives in.

A couple of other artists have covered it to even greater overall success. One is a  group called Madcon, whose edition came out in 2007. Amongst those accomplishments was appearing on the UK Singles Chart, where “Beggin’” peaked at number seven. And it also made an appearance stateside on Billboard’s Hot Rock & Alternative Songs listing.

Maneskin became the first musical act from Italy, as well as the first act from Eurovision to have two top 10 songs on the UK Singles Chart simultaneously. And overall they have been one of the more successful bands on the UK Singles Chart during the middle part of 2021.