Macarena is BACK! :-S

The horror ... The horror...

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Definition of Dutch Summer: an exquisite excitation of senses… Gray gloomy days… raining a lot is a must in any given Dutch summer day. Apparently having lousy Latin music on the radio is also a requirement for a proper Dutch summer day! In less than 15 minutes listening to a well established Netherlands’ radio channel I had the opportunity to feast myself to "Camisa Negra" and "Macarena". Is too “good” to be true!

R. used to share his apartment with a joyful gay (in every sense of the word) young man that had quite peculiar musical preferences, amongst them timeless hits such as “I’m a Barbie girl” and “Macarena”... It happened occasionally for us to arrive home and have one of these pearls of Music History playing out load in his radio. We thought back then that the guy was just frozen in time… we didn’t anticipate the possibility of him actually being the tip of the iceberg of a new wave of “Macarena”… The revival of “Macarena”… Arrrgghhhhhh…
Please note the use of the term “timeless hits” loosely since I refuse to accept that these where ever hits from any time of Music History. Unfortunately it happened… and we where in the 90’s. Well, surviving the 80’s and the early 90’s was already hard enough as it was, so I don’t think we need a revival of those days of bad frizzy hairstyles and doubtful fashion statements… especially if this return implies having to revive the “Macarena” hit all over again. Is too hard to bear this in one life time!

I miss the sunny days in Portugal, Macarena-free (I hope).