Dove being absolutely down bad for Damiano (as described by her, in her new Cosmopolitan interview) - a thread ❤
"He’s the best person I’ve met in my life."
"He is the kindest, most generous, most innocent, most giving person. He’s just a beautiful, sensitive soul."
"The first time we met was at the 2022 VMAs and his band and I were both up for the same award. You just run into different artists backstage, and when I met them, I don’t think I even spoke to Damiano. I didn’t think anything of it. I went about my night."
"Very quickly it became “Let’s have dinner at 8:00 at this spot.” He’s a Capricorn, so he was very much like, “Okay, these are my intentions.” It was super honorable. He’s like a 1950s gentleman, angel, teddy bear. He’s the best person I’ve met in my life."
"And I wouldn’t say that American men aren’t, but that’s just something I’ve overwhelmingly noticed in Italy. There’s a certain balance between masculine and feminine that is very attractive to me as someone who dates men and women. "
"As my partner, he is very, very supportive. I’ve never felt invalidated by dating him as a straight man. I’ve always felt like he saw me as my full self and for my identity, while also not feeling threatened or diminished by that."
"I’ve been spending time with him and all of his friends and his brother, and they are incredibly sensitive, incredibly romantic, incredibly emotional, very caretaking, equal parts masculine, feminine, equal parts nurturing and protecting."
28/08/2022
Måneskin and Dove are both nominated for the "Best New Artist" award at the VMAs. Dove ends up winning and a TikTok of Damiano's reaction to her victory goes viral. He follows her back on Instagram after that.
"We had both been in situations where we were very harmed in the past and we are very sensitive people. And I think when we met, we were not looking, and it was just sort of investigating. It was like, “Huh, that’s interesting. That’s not what I expected.”
"The band & I had been thinking about doing a collaboration. They had recorded something, so I went in and I recorded over that track. They’d asked me to open for them on their tour and I couldn’t make it happen. There were just these passing-ships-in-the-night things happening."
"I remember I was fascinated because he presents in a way that seems very easily digestible and then you spend two minutes around him and you realize he is the kindest, most generous, most innocent, most giving person. He’s just a beautiful, sensitive soul."
"As songwriters, you have to use your own judgment. Most of my new album is love songs. It’s going to be very obvious. It’s literally talking about speaking Italian and meeting his mother, and you look like Freddie Mercury. I’m not hiding anything."
"When he came up to me, it felt like… A year can do a lot. When we had met before, he was in a very different space and I was too, so we didn’t register each other at all in that way. And then he was like, “We’re starting our world tour at MSG. We’d love it if you came.”
There's a post about Damiano that went viral on a popular pop culture subreddit and I just wanted to present you with some of the best comments because honestly, that comment section is gold
"I definitely think that music is my way of communicating with the world. And now, like one of the most important people in my life right now is also a musician. And we're real people too." - Dove Cameron ❤
"There’s no handbook for how to handle this. We were pretty casual at that point. So it was, do we trust that this is going to go right? We didn’t know. So we went about it in the most sane way we could think of, which is just live our lives, but live them mostly quietly."
Not Dove & Damiano casually strolling around at Disney world wearing Mickey Mouse Ears 😭🥹
(Also sir, no one's taking her away from you, I promise it's safe to remove your arm from her shoulders for one sec lmao)
12/09/2023
Måneskin and Dove both attend the VMAs and win an award. A couple of days later, Damiano and Dove leave congratulatory comments under each other's VMA posts.
10/10/2023
Dove attends Måneskin's gig at the KIA forum in L.A. with her friend Boo Boo Stewart and also the after party where she and Damiano are briefly caught making out on a video.
22/03/2022
Måneskin and Dove both attend the iheart music awards. Dove posts a video of the Måneskin performance in her photo dump of the event the next day.
What if I told you none of it was accidental?
And the first night that you saw me, nothing was gonna stop me?
I laid the groundwork and then, just like clockwork
The dominoes cascaded in a line
What if I told you I'm a mastermind?
😏
01 - 03/11/2023
Dove attends Måneskin's concerts in Rio De Janeiro and Sao Paolo. She and Damiano are also photographed having breakfast together with Vic and other friends.
Since today, August 16th, is Jacopo's 28th birthday, I decided to make a thread dedicated to his and Damiano's beautiful bond ❤
The precious relationship of the David brothers, a thread ❤ (happy birthday Jacopo🥳)
Dove trying to dance without tearing her gaze off Damiano on the screen, then giving up and stopping so she can properly focus at looking at him on stage 😭 girl stand up 😭😭
"With Damiano we're very close and to be clear, all 4 of us want to conduct personal projects but that has nothing to do with the band that is doing great, we're thinking about new songs for the next year.
Victoria has her nights as a techno DJ and she has a lot of fun, when I
31/12/2023
In her 2023 photo dump, Dove includes a photo from the Måneskin after party in L.A. in which she's wearing Damiano's cap and also his arm is visible.
So the girl who calls herself "the daughter of Damiano and Giorgia" (not joking) and who caused the entire drama about Vic being disrespectful during Coraline, found the address of Damiano's house today and was expecting him there with her friend. What the actual fuck?
So, I recently came across an interview Må gave to Cosmopolitan back in March 2019. I found it very interesting because it's basically 4 separate interviews with personalized questions for each of them and thought I'd translate the parts offering new info 💜
*(Long) thread
Currently thinking about the fact that Damiano's most listened song in 2023 was called "Green Eyes" and now there's a photo of him getting lost in Dove's eyes every other day 😭
A thread of the iconic Måneskin 2021 stories or, better known, as the era during which the fish eye filter had them on a chokehold 😭
for everyone who wasn't around to experience it back then and ofc for all the people who were but wish to be reminded of it 💜
I think this is the most self-reflective interview of Damiano I've ever watched. You can tell he's worked through a lot of the anger and anxiety that were visible especially last year and he's finally at peace, both with himself and with his life.
I couldn't be happier for him❤