‘El mal’ is the winner of the Golden Globe for Best Song. It is one of Camille’s compositions – forgotten but vindicated French artist – for that movie ‘Emilia Pérez’. He has defeated songs by Lykke Li with Miley Cyrus; the unreleased Robbie Williams song for ‘Better Man’ or the Nine Inch Nails song for ‘Rivales’. It has also defeated ‘Mi Camino’, the song performed by Selena Gomez for ‘Emilia Pérez’ herself and which today we selected as Song of the Day.
The Golden Globes jury may have selected ‘Evil’ because, played by Zoe Saldaña, it is more relevant to the plot of ‘Emilia Pérez’. It’s darker and more “serious.” But we can’t overlook how fun this ‘My Way’ is in the context of Selena Gomez’s career.
The artist, one of the richest in the world thanks to her beauty products, could spend her life on a lounge chair on an island that she ventured to buy to pass the time, but she has decided to get involved in this unclassifiable film that swarms between comedy , drama and action. ‘Emilia Pérez’, among other things, is also a musical, specifically one of impossible songs, with strange melodies and even stranger lyrics, composed in Spanish by French artists.
‘My way’ is in this context a song of self-improvement that Selena Gómez’s character sings about loving herself, about “loving herself like that, all of her.” “If I fall into the ravine, it’s my ravine,” he repeats in an unprecedented way. The song co-written by Clément Ducol does not renounce the bravery and humor that permeate the entire film. “When I party a lot / When I act like a bitch” is part of a lyric that is as horny as it is made seriously: “I want to love the girl they didn’t let me be,” he says at one point, and then adds disconcertingly: “I want to love the grandmother that I might become.” All in a very strange Spanish, typical of his character who wants to return to the United States with his sister, but lives surrounded by Mexicans.
‘My Song’ is the most listened to song on this entire soundtrack, perhaps only because Selena Gomez sings it. You will not see it among his most played songs nor will you hear it on any radio, but he has undoubtedly taken his career to another level. That of humor and knowing how to laugh at yourself.
