Alberto Rey
Updated Thursday, February 22, 2024-22:12
I have many
Danis
Martín
close to me and, in a way, I am also one of them:
forty-somethings
who were given the option of not maturing and they took it (we took it).
20 years ago we laughed at that
misplaced man who danced alone
on the Kapital dance floor.
Today we are that man, although we do not want to recognize it.
The purists who signed up for a kitesurfing course in Tarifa and who
fantasize that Ester Expósito,
the
trusted
influencer of the daughters we don't have,
will listen to us.
All that imagery is in
Ester Expósito
, the recently released song by Dani Martín, so the musician cannot be accused of not going forward.
The song, like everything by Martín since the time of El canto del Loco, is
another childish rock
designed to be sung by
fifteen-year-olds
.
Those who once loudly sang
Sneakers
or
José's Mother
today
have children who watch
Elite
.
Dani doesn't and, for that reason, like my friends and me, he probably
doesn't think it's ridiculous
that he watches the Netflix series and has Ester Expósito on his radar.
In his new song, Dani Martín does not make it clear
if he makes the joke or he is the joke.
The joke of speaking as if he were not
on the verge of 50
and neither the world nor the
Esters
Expósito who inhabit it paid much attention to him.
Single and without children, yes, but with
gray hair and emotional backpacks
that drag them back.
With a credit card, yes, but without the energy to last
two nights in a row without sleeping.
Since I am also an older man (an intense older man, too), I can imagine
Dani Martín looking at Ester Expósito
the way Dirk Bogarde looked at Tadzio in
Death in Venice.
"Why don't you look at me if I wrote it for us," Martín sings and I place him
on the edge of the lagoon,
with makeup dripping down his face.
Ester Expósito,
the song, is endearing because, seeming like
a cruel parody
of Dani Martín's music, it is not.
And Dani Martín is endearing because he would like to think that all of us
forty-somethings who think we are young are.
Some buy a motorcycle, others get tattoos and the most seasoned ones (we start) boxing.
Dani Martín has also made a song for an actress who
was not born when he became famous.