Hello! Hello! I greet you my dear friends, hoping you have a productive week and all the energy to face it with the best attitude😎. Look, I love musical Mondays because it is certainly a propitious time to propose some songs or themes and spend the week with that song or reflection in our mind. In this opportunity, I'm going to talk about a little bit of everything, but that finds explanation with a single phrase: “adolescence.... What a time those were!” It turns out that music in 2000, I enjoyed it too much. I could not arrive on Monday, because I was already planning the week; from Wednesday the nightlife began in my city and as the days went by, things got more exciting. And the good thing about all this, is that there was fun for all tastes: outdoors, free, in bars, karaoke, nightspots, ladys night, 2x1, open bar until 12, a diversity! that ended in a beach Sunday or with the promise I DON'T DRINK ANYMORE! But it was enough for Monday to arrive and all those promises were put on the back burner, because the end was near🤣.

In recent days, while I was doing some things on my computer I played some music. I remember that the announcer was announcing it “as a classic” and I, what an abuse! if it has only been 20 years and there I realized, 20 years ☹️ of the release of that song. When I recovered from that shock, I said to myself “well, songs like that won't come anymore, so let's enjoy it” and I began to remember small fragments of what I told you about the rhythm of the nightlife. However, what caught my attention was the lyrics of the song and as it has happened to me on other occasions with songs in English, I did not want to sin of illusion singing in who knows what language and I set out to find the lyrics of this song that I show you below as it is a reference to talk about my adolescence. What I can tell you is that the laughter and the way I now question everything I hear is NOT NORMAL, because aha, the song is called MARACAIBO; to describe it I can say that we were young, the rhythm was the best, it talked about a city in my country, what could go wrong? Well, everything went very wrong; but, in order to give context enjoy the song first:

At that time, tribal, techno, house, and electronic beats were in high demand in the nightlife scene and well, this song was one of the favorites. It was viralized by a group called Le Pupe with the help of these mixes that were spectacular, for history. Well, it turns out that when I looked it up in lyrics to find out what it meant, since I had never given myself the task of investigating what could speak in another language about Maracaibo, WOW! WOW! my surprise. Nothing of what my unconscious had stored up to that moment, made sense; in fact, all my possible guesses about what the letter could mean, remained small in front of all the meaning it has. Warning, it is good to know that it is not suitable for minors ☢️. It turns out that this song that was brought to us in our 2000's, is a “remake” of a version of the Italian Lu Colombo (if you look for that artist), who to this day is remembered for that song that was number 1 in the 80's, cataloging it as “the hit of the summer” by the major music networks and still remains in force. So far so good, only that the song is a bit dark, dark, very dark. In a few words, it talks about illicit substances, nightlife, arms trafficking, deceit, infidelity, death and stop counting what this song has to hide.

I was amazed with this song because I didn't even understand ZAZA and I had to read stories, comments, people's opinions, the story behind the song and a lot of things that made me woo! and believe me if you are from my time and I dance to it and sing it “invoking the rain” because I don't know Italian, you will be astonished of everything it described. It is even said that to avoid more scandals (because it was based on a fact that happened), the name of F... was changed to Miguel “you draw your own conclusions😱”.

My reflections First, you have to listen to it, read it, enjoy it because well let's say that's what music is made for, to unite us in a rhythm and a feeling that the main idea is to enjoy. Already entering, although sometimes I refuse to think that 20 years of my youth have passed, it is incredible how everything makes a cycle, because that song was also rescued from 20 years ago when it was a total success and that adapting it to the time, it returned to beat records in the radio stations and radio broadcasting equipment of the moment. That means, we never go out of fashion, we just adapt to the times, and we are still here in force 😎. To close, it's a call to know what we listen to; I think that out of ignorance I would have gone to jail if I listened to that song in a place where I shouldn't have. That's why, with the help of the internet, for me it's easier to get some information or video already subtitled that gives me more information before saying that it's my favorite song or just move on to other more beautiful and without so much darkness😊. And you what do you think Did you listen to this song? Or tell me I wasn't the only one who was blind,deaf and dumb to the lyrics of this song😟.

Feliz semana y nos vemos en un próximo encuentro musical.

I got the picture from Pixabay
I edited it in Canvas as well as the separator.
The translator was DeepL.
Happy week and see you in a next musical meeting.