Avoid this if you're feeling lovelorn - it's Calle 13 rapping over a ukelele, to make the soppiest love song ever. The verses of the lyrics are this brilliant bizarre fantasy ("for you, I'll cross any border with no visa//And I'll get a proper smile from the Mona Lisa...") and the chorus is a brutally simple declaration of love.
The sound of it reminds me of my favourite ukelele mash-up too.
The video is spectacularly bizarre - it wouldn't be Calle 13 if it wasn't political. Their latest album, which Muerte In Hawaii is off, also has their most beautiful political song to date.
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Sunday, 31 July 2011
Saturday, 11 June 2011
Calle 13 - Chulin Chulin Chunfly
It's a love song, I swear. It's just got a lot of brass on it, and - like all reggaeton - it's based on the driving Dem Bow riddim.
Calle 13 are pretty post-modern with all of this though. Their lyrics are always cynical, often political, and normally have a couple of bizarre sexual metaphors (this one asks whether she likes it when his "elephant coughs", and that he wants to drink "water from this well... even if it's salty or bitter").
I'm not sure whether it's an audacious attempt to get round Puerto Rico's strict censorship of songs or whether they're just reveling in the ridiculousness of it all. Either way, you have to love the fact that they've rewritten seduction with trumpets and metaphors.
Calle 13 are pretty post-modern with all of this though. Their lyrics are always cynical, often political, and normally have a couple of bizarre sexual metaphors (this one asks whether she likes it when his "elephant coughs", and that he wants to drink "water from this well... even if it's salty or bitter").
I'm not sure whether it's an audacious attempt to get round Puerto Rico's strict censorship of songs or whether they're just reveling in the ridiculousness of it all. Either way, you have to love the fact that they've rewritten seduction with trumpets and metaphors.
Thursday, 3 February 2011
Calle 13 - La Jirafa
This one's like a mad cumbia, killing it on the accordion and the drums. Fittingly, the lyrics are a tongue-in-cheek love/lust song.
Fit video too: Calle 13 always manage to make Puerto Rico look like one of those dreams you don't want to wake up from.
Fit video too: Calle 13 always manage to make Puerto Rico look like one of those dreams you don't want to wake up from.
Monday, 17 January 2011
Calle 13 - Tocarte Toda
I'm not sure if I love this for the sweet violin sample, the tongue-in-cheek lyrics, or for the memories it brings me. I'm pretty sure it's amazing though. The video's a bit of a piss-take of your standard reggaeton tits-and-bits videos.
I could wax lyrical about how Calle 13 push out the boundaries of a genre that is its own worst enemy, but you can read Wikipedia. Suffice to say their lyrics are often hilarious, always on point, and their music is fresh to death.
I could wax lyrical about how Calle 13 push out the boundaries of a genre that is its own worst enemy, but you can read Wikipedia. Suffice to say their lyrics are often hilarious, always on point, and their music is fresh to death.
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