Çantamarta sing about something that we can all identify with in the latest single from their next project: lost friendship. Based on Caribbean rhythms and nods to flamenco, the trio formed by Luis Lozano, Beni Casado and Omar Molina deliver a heartfelt song about the ‘melancholy’ of losing a friend. It’s the Song of the Day.
“Where is my friend, who doesn’t answer my calls,” Lozano sings in the first lines of the song. The theme could easily be taken to the field of humor, but Çantamarta write ‘melancholy’ from seriousness. Thus, the narrator remembers the topics he talked about with his colleague (“He talks to me about rappers, gangsters and marijuana”) while you confess to crying “night and day.”
He does not understand “why he no longer answers me” and begins to look for all kinds of reasons, such as that “he left” or that “he got tired of this cruel world that judges man.” What one thinks when listening to the song is that the separation is due to the simple course of life, which constantly gives us and takes away friendships. “Everyone has their life,” the narrator of the theme might think.
However, despite the lively instrumentation of the song, which if it had another theme would be perfect to accompany a summer sunset, ‘melancholy’ could have another meaning. If we play the song on Spotify and click on the lyrics tab, we are surprised to see not this, but the emergency and suicide prevention telephone numbers of different countries, from Spain to the United States. The message is clear: call your friend.
