: Emmanuelle wrote the song while living in New York , feeling deeply isolated and missing her home in Italy .
: The lyrics revolve around a specific phone call where she fell in love with someone on the other end. This is reflected in the recurring line, "La telefonata. Sono innamorata. Malata per te" ("The phone call. I'm in love. Sick for you").
"Italove" by Emmanuelle is a contemporary homage to 1980s Italo disco, originally released in May 2016 on the label . The "DJ Alex Riddle x Mentol Remode" is a popular deep house interpretation that gained significant traction on platforms like YouTube and Bandcamp shortly after the original's debut. The Story Behind the Song