Breakup songs form a subgenre as fertile as it is generous. They support almost everything. Get terribly melodramatic, like Etta James, who sang in Tell Mama that she’d rather be blind than watch her lover walk away from her, or show herself spare and sly, like Ariana Grande, who coined a phrase for the decade with the song in which he dismissed the last and, by the way, all his exes: Thank u, next.
They are subjects that do not even require great lyrical complexity, I wish I never saw the sunshine, by the Ronettes, stretches one of the easiest rhymes in English, rain (rain) with pain (pain), in the last stretch, and that does not detract from this theme, one of the most beautiful in the history of pop, not even a bit of pathos.
Before releasing his own breakout song Rauw Alejandro would have done well to study the work of two of his friends and collaborators. Shakira and Bizarrap’s session will not be an example of subtlety either in the lyrics or in the music, but if eight months after Shakira’s success we continue and continue to say “perdón que te sal-pique” it is for something. clear-minded
In the hasty issue of Hayami Hana, so ridiculed on the networks that he even feels sorry, Rosalía’s ex shows that he has not been told much about them or who his girlfriend was until a few weeks ago. That the song’s release coincided with a stolen pose of him walking around Los Angeles with a sad face and holding a kitten, a paparazzi photo so unintentionally comical that it seems generated by AI, already indicates that the subject, more than a vent ( “un par de cosas del pecho me quiero sacar”) or an understandable commercial calculation intended to take advantage of the moment to score a hit, is a poorly calibrated public relations exercise that has gotten out of hand.
The song is not even a song, not an extra-long watsap as it has been said, but a statement of the kind that celebrities write in the Notes app, in this case to release the version that he was not unfaithful (what a horror, by the way, if she had the key “to his heaven”) and that she was the one who broke the relationship.
Since the body is asking for blood, what we all hope is for her to respond, which surely won’t rhyme Grammy with Motomami.
