La Casa Azul and Soleá Morente continue to reveal the content of their next joint album, which remains to be officially announced. And it is very advanced, as Guille Milkyway explained in the latest installment of the Revelación o timo podcast.
‘Now or never’ is a new single that is halfway between the dreamy post-disco of the eighties and the melodic Italian song. I would love The Weeknd if he wasn’t obsessed with darkness.
In today’s Song of the Day the passionate images of romantic love follow one another like in a song by Rocío Jurado. “We were running out of time / between delusions and entelequias and promises dead in the wind” is a phrase that the greatest could have intoned, while you look up in the dictionary what “entelequias” means.
‘Now or never’ is a duet dedicated to an anachronistic pop beauty, in its different facets. The lyrics imagine two “prisoners of desire” who find themselves “subjugated to the empire of pleasure.” They love each other one “last night”, as if the world would end the next day. On the musical side, the production evokes an eroticism typical of an ancient Spain, an eroticism -by the way- very present in the vocal melody, which falls slightly in the chorus, as if its legs were failing. Soleá playing Donna Summer, or something similar.
The romantic duet concept of ‘Now or Never’ has famous precedents that the Elefant label puts on the table before anyone else does. ‘Callados’ by Camilo Sesto and Ángela Carrasco, ‘Tú estars’ by Lorenzo Santamaría and Victoria Abril or ‘It won’t happen anymore’ by Claudia Mori and Adriano Celentano are among the references that ‘Now or never’ evokes. Regardless of any influence, ‘Now or Never’ is once again a completely irresistible song by La Casa Azul and Soleá Morente.
