In our Yearbook 2024, along with discs and songs and songs and different columns that analyzed the year from the musical, we returned to include a section that looked to the future, pointing out possible artists to discover this 2025, after having done the same in the previous one with people like Metrika, Janire or Nerve Agent. On this occasion, our bets include artists such as Memocracy, Elkka, Basketball or the person you see on these lines and that we choose to captain them all: Bajocero X.
After this artistic name we found Daniel López Suarez, a Madrid who has been working for years to make a place in music and who, having no resources to access a music school, decided to learn musical production in a self -taught way.
Some we discovered him by the pandemic with his cover of ‘I am never’ (and others as surprising as those of ‘my car’ and ‘I sneaked into a party’). Others came to him with their incursions into the urban genre through their own issues such as ‘close’ or the openly marica reggaeton of ‘Firefighters’, and most knew him with ‘Dispárame’, inexplicably rejected by Benidorm Fest.
In the last year he has been defining his style towards a mixture of sacred music with the techno and reggaeton, where Perreo joins the Gregorian song and the gospel with electronics, and all this has crystallized in ‘Derake’, his first long album, which was put on sale a few days ago.
Tars that we already knew as ‘Cataяata’ or ‘I do not remember anything’ come together in this album to others such as ‘3 nights without stars’, ‘Find your God’ (Albany fans, eye), the rare Avis in its catalog ‘doors to the field’ or ‘devy Shetty’, which is our song of the day.
Like the rest of the album, ‘Devy Shetty’ is entirely composed and produced by Bajocero X itself, and reflects very well the concept of ‘deranged’, which talks about “the irrationality of emotions”, joining addiction, faith, sex and pain through changing structures and contrasts among genres. Thus, the sexual can be somewhat dark (“I sold my body in the Baghdad”) or desired (“between your mouth and mine, a missile”), the references can go from the surgeon that gives title to the theme until “wrapped as anitta”, and for their less than three minutes pass Beats of dark reggaeton, a childhood choir, Drill, Trance and even a piano.
A little like his vocal interpretation: in the same song, Bajocero X is able to show himself cool, innocent, funny, aggressive, epic, sensual or vulnerable. As he says in the song, “I am twenty people at the same time.” And the thing is that this roller coaster, far from being a pastiche, works great. In the Yearbook article, I commented that I saw in Bajocero X the capacity for Bad Gyal bars, Rosalía’s experimental nuance and the taste for the excessive Monica Naranjo. Obviously saving the distances, but there is something of them here, three pop divas whose target, curiously, does not usually lock a boy like diva (this is a melon that would give for another article). We do not know if it will be the one who breaks that curse, but of course songs like ‘Devy Shetty’ and the contagious chaos of ‘deranged’ offer plenty of reason.
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