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3.5

• Genre: Pop

It's been 20 years since Estopa appeared on the Barcelona and Spanish musical horizon and it seems, however, that it was yesterday ... Moreover, four years of record silence have passed and nothing seems to have affected them. Many things have happened along the way, but they remain anchored to a certain form of urban music that has nothing to do with the urban music that triumphs among the Canis - read trap and reggaeton and that curious fusion that Rosalia does. Estopa, on the other hand, has become consolidated until it becomes a "classic": any young person who wants to make his way today in the land of the Catalan rumba will no longer know who is "the one in the middle of the Chichos", neither Peret, nor Los Amaya, much less El Pescaílla ... Today, the reference is Estopa, the Muñoz brothers, who were the great renovators of the genre, mixing it with certain doses of rock (which were the ones that, surprisingly, in their origins, caused that, when comparing them, Extremoduro will be included).

Being referents in themselves, and making “genre” music, as it is said, in the cinema, of certain type of films, it is understood that, 20 years later, Estopa continues playing to Estopa . That is all that can be said about "bad" about them: the structural immobility of Fire , their eighth studio album, not counting direct and compilations. Now comes, instead, the "good": fidelity to its essence (which have been incorporating ornaments along the way, such as reggae, bossa nova, hard rock, pop) and ease of embroidery what they do without falling into the routine and without getting bored of those who listen to them, keeping their angel to create choruses of disarming simplicity - "you are better than beer / when I drink you, I drink you whole" - without blushing ( well, his Poor Siri , a song about the virtual voice assistant of Apple's iPhone, maybe a little, like the Nacho Campillo's Caught in the net and his "@ steal-steal-stolen reason").

Twenty years are nothing, as the bolero said, and they have managed to make another album with themes that will sound and sound live, and we will continue listening in another 20 years, such as Fire , Rokanrol shirt , Awakening or Balloons . Like El Fary or Raphael, Estopa does not need revolutions to remain in the lampstand. On the contrary, what you need is to remain true to yourself. That is the way to enter the legend of popular music.

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