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.