Quevedo’s 14 new songs continue strong on the Spanish charts. Even though there is a new Rels B album and it has placed 10 of its 11 songs in Spotify’s top 50, Quevedo continues to rule.
Pedro continues to dominate the top 6 of the most played songs in the country 2 weeks later. In fact, the song from ‘EL BAIFO’ that we find lowest in the top is ‘EL BALCÓN’ and it is still in position 48 on Spotify Spain. Rels B has “only” been able to reach 11th place with ‘LEVA AL SOL’.
The public’s favorite song from Quevedo’s new release has long been neither ‘NI BORRACHO’ nor the other single ‘SCANDIC’. First the public opted for ‘LA GRACIOSA’ with Elvis Crespo, and in recent days ‘AL GOLPITO’ with Nueva Línea has been popular.
Another very strong song (top 4 in Spofify Spain) that we selected as Song of the Day is ‘EL BAIFO’. It is one that best represents the album on its journey through the Canary Islands and Latin America: it is not in vain that it is the one that gives it its name.
‘EL BAIFO’ begins sounding like the reggaeton of Daddy Yankee and Don Omar back in 2003 and 2004. The first percussions, keyboards, and drum machines refer to that. However, Quevedo then pays deep homage to his land, with several geographical references and colloquial language. There are a thousand: the guateque in Guayadeque”, the “chicharreros y conejeros”, the mojo picón, being “in December in cholas”, Telde, Vecindario, the Sotavento and Paper nightclubs… And finally: “The day I die, bury me in Las Canteras / And throw the pintadera into the sea.”
In case the song wasn’t up there with its fast-paced rap, in which Quevedo also remembers his past as a bricklayer (“I was El Baifo until when I painted bricks”), the chorus refers to an old popular song, with a beautiful and memorable melody, that children usually sing at school: “I live in an archipelago where they play the drum / and people move / In the middle of the Atlantic where you and I live / Where I know you love me.”
In the end the melody is reduced to its minimum expression, leaving only the Canary timple to sound, an instrument similar to a ukulele.
