In my town – and in others, I know – there is one thing called “Summer de San Blas” in early February. It is said “by San Blas, the stork you will see” and one day of the tortilla is organized in the countryside, because although it seems a lie, it begins to do good. At least it was before climate change.
I have remembered all this listening to the new single of Aitana, which is not called “February 3” (San Blas) but yes ‘February 6’, and is, paradoxically, a shameless summer bet. So much that the video has been shot in a beach environment in the Dominican Republic, as well as related to tropical songs type ‘Asechá’ by Rosalía or ‘If I had known you before’ by Karol G. but this is not a mambo neither a merengue nor anything like it. Ocaña again bets on the eighties Synth-Pop.
The theme, written with Torres and Rengifo, authors of ‘Despacito’ and many of Aitana’s hits, is a rupture song, in crescendo, which takes popular keyboards at some intermediate point between ‘Fade to Gray’ and ‘Voyage Voyage’. Our song of the day and already number 1 on YouTube Spain, hooks because the melody is enveloping and the whole song is finishing before you realize. It cannot be more concise.
A bittersweet melody where some beats that can be danced, with the sadness of an anniversary that will no longer be: “You who promised me the whole world / now return me my February 6.” The phrase “sometimes I think that maybe you used me / to forget another that you did not forget” is raising blisters in Genius, where there are already those who prepare theories about their recipients.
‘February 6’ was highly anticipated by the followers of Aitana, since the chorus of this issue was humming in his docuserie ‘aitana: metamorphosis’, causing it to go viral in social networks ahead of time. A habitual strategy, one way or another, in the last couple of years.
Aitana acts on July 19 at the Olílpic Stadi in Barcelona and on July 30 and July 31 in the Metropolitan of Madrid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7csx6CfgMoo
