Regarding that Tik Tok 'trend' that reads something like "would you dare to play that song for your mother?", I came across a song called 'Delincuente' (please excuse
my
'musical ignorance' because I did not know it until now) which, from what I have been able to read later, was in
second position in the list of 10 best songs of 2022,
prepared by 'Time' magazine.
And his letter, among other things, says (I apologize again, this time, for what I am going to write):
I want to put you in, I want to put you in my room
Take off your Jordans, take off your pants
Come, I'll wait for you without pantyhose
I have your condom on top of the drawer
Leave it full of milk
And let's not make too much noise so my brother doesn't suspect
That I have a delinquent in my bed
Who breaks my ass in four, after he blows me...
Better, I don't continue, because I think that, with these two stanzas 'you're welcome', the 'message' (presumably disturbing and I don't know what other moves) contained in the song is perfectly understood.
When I heard it for the first time a few days ago (call me 'grandma' out of the loop), I admit that I was quite blown away.
It's not that it shocked me
, because, at this point, one is already cured of fright, but it made me think that, on the musical scene, what is between my generation and, even, that of my parents or grandparents and kids today,
it's not a simple breach, but the San Andreas Fault (California)
.
Continuing with my mental development, I tried to imagine what my grandmother would have said if my mother had played her a Beatles song back in the day (which I don't think happened).
Then, what would my own mother's face have been if she had understood
Springsteen's 'I am on Fire',
with which I 'tortured' her, over and over again, during the middle years of my adolescence and which, among other things, it said:
Hey little girl, is your daddy home?
Did he go and leave you all alone?
Mhmm
I got a bad desire
Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire
Tell me now, baby, is he good to you?
And can he do to you the things that I do?
Oh no
I can take you higher
Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire
And I couldn't help wondering (as a grandmother, again): how can there be so much difference between that eighties musical adolescence, insinuating but somewhat 'naif', that I lived and the 'hot' obviousness of the 'great songs' of now?
Ok, yes,
Cristina del Valle and Alberto Comesaña from 'Amistades Peligrosas'
also heated up the staff in the early 90s with their torrid compositions, but the quantum leap between that and this is an Olympic record impossible to beat.
In any case, despite the fact that all this type of music scares me, I admit that, at least, I like to keep my ears open to know what is out there and... continue listening to 'my Springsteen' (although his songs are not among the best of the year, according to 'Time').
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