Top 10 Worst Songs In Spanish Include the Usual Suspects, Forget A Couple Key Players
26 July 2007, 3:51 PM. By Carlos Posas
A four week-long online poll asking readers to name the worst pop song in Spanish has produced an unshocking Top Ten List. [Ed. Note: Neither article we consulted names the digital mag that conducted the poll, but we Googled the name of its editor. Turns out music critic Drago Bonacich was one of the first to support Shakira's U.S. cross over and anticipate Daddy Yankee's success. Irony ensues as both artists appear on this list.] Here are some highlights, and our reasons why they belong there:
• At #1, Los Del Rio’s “Macarena.” Retired midwestern couples on cruise ships considered it culturally enlightening.
• At #3, Daddy Yankee’s “Gasolina.” We were never a big fan of semen metaphors. Semen onomatopoeias, on the other hand, make us go, ‘Aw, skeet, skeet, skeet!’
• At #5, Ricky Martin’s “She Bangs (Versión En Español).” It’s gotta suck at least as much as the English version.
• At #9, Shakira’s “Hips Don’t Lie (Versión En Español).” Wyclef Jean’s bargain bin production takes the blame for this one.
Check out our additions to the list after the jump.
• Anything J. Lo has ever sung in Spanish. It’s her second language, after all. (Right after forced ghetto-speak.)
• “La Cucaracha.” We’re still tallying how far back its car horn version has set Mexicans.
• “Nuestro Himno.” Wikipedia proves our point:
The song “Nuestro Himno,” which means “Our Anthem,” is not a faithful and literal Spanish translation of the words to “The Star-Spangled Banner,” but is a hip-hop-style remix with new raps and chants.
Need we say more?
Y los peores temas son… [Univisión via Vivir Latino]
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Jennifer Lopez doesn’t force her ghetto-speak, she’s ghetto and proud! she made ghetto cool!
other additions from my personal most-hated:
anything sung by Enrique Iglesias
“Gafas Oscuras” by Dayanara (ex Miss Universe, ex-Miss Marc Anthony). Yup she had an album, i think only the island of Puerto Rico heard it.
anything sung by Sin Bandera, oh how I hate that pair of high pitched gayness.
Semen onomatopoeias? Hilarious!
Allow me to go on record as saying that “La Macarena” — as well, “Who let the dogs out?” — are two of the best in pop canon of the last decade. (Literally, the last decade, as ten years is just enough to include “La Macarena”.)
Semen? Last time I checked, “gasolina” refers to a ghettofied drink from Puerto Rico made by mixing fruit punch, rum, and tequila in equal quantities.
In fact, you can now buy “Gasolina” at pretty much any gas station in the greater San Juan metro area, packaged in a handy Capri-Sun-style shiny pouch, packaged complete with the little straw.
That’s not to say Yankee wasn’t talking about something else too, but anybody that really listens to reggaeton knows that they’re never talking about anything at all…
Now, on the remix, Little Jon is definitely referring to semen.
Hence the skeet, skeet shout-out. Thanks for enlightening us, though, dLab. As it’s clear from the site, we don’t get out much.
You forgot Kairo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXvceC149yg