40 years ago! the duo Pimpinela, broke records for albums sold with Olvídame y pega la vuelta. The “go” in Lucía Galán’s treble still rings out like the epitome of vengeance from the spiteful woman who wants nothing more to do with her ex.
This Wednesday BZRP Session #53 went viral, where Shakira -accompanied by Bizarrap- “takes revenge” on her ex and father of her children, Gerard Piqué, who recently left her for a younger model. A scorned celebrity who “doesn’t cry but bills”, as the lyrics put it. And boy does it, in 12 hours the clip had 26 million views.
Certainly the songs that speak of love betrayal have always existed (sung by women and men), from tango to cumbia, from rock to pop. But there is at least two differences.
The first – despite the women who say they have freed themselves from romantic love -, the other continues to be treated as an “object”, property of the injured party.
But here is the cancellation that boleros like “La media vuelta” (by the huge José Alfredo Jiménez), where the singer boasts: “You leave because I want you to leave… when I want, I stop you… whether you want to or not, I am your master.”
The second is that before the songs referred to circumstances typical of the human condition (infidelity, deceit, betrayal, lies), but they were anonymous.
Today that there is no distance between public and private, the question is based on concrete facts: who was the traitor, with whom did he betray, under what circumstances. Something like a music reality show.
Source: Clarin
