Alessandra Milieri stands barefoot on a breakwater of concrete blocks by the water, red megaphone in hand, a graffiti-covered yellow tower rising behind her, red heart-shaped sunglasses catching the summer light, her red shirt and denim shorts about as far from a recording-booth setting as a musician can get. That image is not an accident. It is the entire argument of her cover: that a song about the weight of anxiety can be held differently, carried with warmth, and set free somewhere close to the water. She made this reinterpretation with the help of her own family, offered it to the world at no cost, and the world, it turns out, has been passing it around in five languages ever since.
How a heavy song became a summer offering
Doechii, whom Alessandra openly credits as ‘the queen of the 2024/2025 trend,’ wrote ‘Anxiety’ with a raw, almost confrontational urgency. Alessandra’s cover does not argue with that. It goes somewhere else entirely. Where the original presses hard, her arrangement opens up, building the rhythm around shakers and maracas rather than the harder textures of the source track. The effect is immersive in the way a slow afternoon at the shore is immersive: there is still feeling underneath, but the air has changed. Her vocal approach leans soulful, and the rap section of the original has been transformed into a fully melodic line, what she calls ‘a completely new take on the piece.’ The cover is, in her own words, ‘designed to bring a touch of warmth and summer lightness to a deeply intense song.’
None of that just happens. The arrangement choices, the instrument selection, the decision to melodize rather than rap: each one is a deliberate act of recomposition. Alessandra is not covering the song so much as rehousing it, finding out what it sounds like when the temperature drops and the sun comes out.
Made with family, given away for free
The production carries a warmth that traces directly back to how it was made. Video production came from Andrea Liuzza, and the cast includes friends and special guests, but at the foundation of the whole project is something quieter: Alessandra’s family, credited for their moral and technical support. That phrase matters. It is not the language of a production company or a label. It is the language of people who drove equipment somewhere, held a light, believed in the thing being made, and showed up. The four-and-a-half-minute result, released in 2025, is available on every major streaming platform worldwide, free to find, free to keep, free to share.
That generosity has a way of traveling. Listeners from across Europe and beyond have left responses in English, Italian, French, German, and Spanish. Some praise her voice. Others call the video itself a work of art. More than a few are openly rooting for her, the kind of comments that read less like feedback and more like people wanting someone to catch a break she clearly deserves.
A megaphone aimed at no one in particular
The red megaphone in the opening shot is one of the more specific details in the video: Alessandra holding it by the water, not quite using it, as though the amplification were optional. It is a small, unresolved image.
The cover is on all major streaming platforms now, and her channel is @alessandramilieri. Somewhere between the shakers and the soulful bridge, people keep finding it and sending it to someone else who might need a little summer in their day.
