Authenticity, for Gaia, is everything, and it is also the common thread of this interview: "When you are authentic and aligned, you do something that is honest: this is what engages people. People connect with themselves and with you, a moment is created between you, a memory, a revelation that opens up to life, to beauty, to care, and to music, which then becomes an exchange." "Dea Saffica," in its own way, also speaks of this moment of connection with the external but above all with the internal: "I use writing and music to analyze my life and my experiences. It's my filter. I find it interesting that in this life I was born a woman, and I have worked hard to find a more intimate and sincere dialogue with myself, which allows all my parts to coexist and not judge each other, even when they are distant. "Dea Saffica" is this: my understanding that all my parts - even those that bother me - are essential, that in my femininity there is sisterhood, motherhood, eroticism, fertility but also anger. Anger that is not just mine but also that of my ancestors, my mother, my grandmother, all the women who came before me and them. "Dea Saffica" is an invitation to experience our sensuality and our being women firsthand, but also much more." This song, this discovery, this journey into herself fits into a global creative and evolutionary moment, of writing something that could become a new album, different from those that have come before. "I'm writing a lot, I've also approached Italian. All my projects in Portuguese and of Brazilian origin have a simpler musicality, it's easier for me to write in Portuguese, it gives me security. Italian is very poetic but has many truncated words, it decides the musicality. The word has its importance, I am very attached to melodies, and I discovered the power of the word afterwards, so I approached Italian as if it were a new infatuation with music. I am very happy with this writing moment, and soon I will be able to share something else."

International pop stars go through eras, and each album is a different era. Just think of Taylor Swift, who changes skin and attitude depending on what she faces in her works. In what era does Gaia find herself now? With her tendency for deep reflection between sky and earth, which comes out repeatedly during the interview but also before and after, at lunch and during the shots, she tells us: "I want to be a great vehicle for what my angels want me to say. In my songs there is a projection of me. It's like having children: you put everything you have into them but then you let them go into the world, you have to let them follow their path and have their identity. So here it is, my new era is that of emotional intelligence." The same emotional intelligence that, when we ask her if she has ever received unpleasant comments or experienced discrimination as a woman in a competitive industry, the music one, leads her to respond: "I have suffered discrimination in my career and in my life, like all people belonging to marginalized and marginalized categories of our society. The problem is that we forget that we live in a flawed system, in the sense that we could live in a nice and empathetic world but we have our masculine and feminine parts imbalanced, and this imbalance creates detachment, hatred, distance between women and men. I firmly believe that those who have hurt me in life have done so because they, in turn, were traumatized by someone else." She then adds: "I don't point fingers, but I'm sure that if we remembered how we felt when we were wronged, we could change our reactions, even towards injustices and everything that comes from a non-pure, non-loving source. It's not always easy, sometimes telling someone off is also therapeutic and I recommend it."