The Community of Madrid has developed a guide for Madrid schools to learn about the musical diversity we have in Europe, reviewing the best and most relevant artists of each country, as well as their most outstanding songs and albums. Perfect, if it were not for the amount of errors that it includes, in addition to the disinterest and the laziness it transmits.
The manual in question, titled ‘Know Europe through current music in the countries of the European Union’, chooses three artists from each country, offers a brief description of its style and trajectory and highlights a song, which in some examples is As random as ‘i need sum fine wine and you, you need to be nicer’ for The Cardigans. Was it so difficult to put ‘Lovefool’ and not complicated?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huobay7gl30
The document is made by the European and European Document Documentation Center of Madrid, which is surprising since most descriptions are blatantly taken from Wikipedia, and barely retouched. A good example of this is the Måneskin section, which is not even able to mention that they were Eurovision winners in 2021. In its place, it is limited to indicating when and where the band was formed and the names of its members. The first paragraph of the wiki, go.
The failures that may be if we start investigating all the artists from other countries, only the Community of Madrid knows. Well, even they may. In the Spanish section, in which six artists are selected, there are at least 7, depending on how you tell them. The selected names are Leiva and Pereza (they have put them together, but they fully ignore laziness), Nach, Estopa, Amaral, Los Planetas and Rosalia.
The first failure comes in the first word of Nach’s description: “Alicante.” Go for God, it seems that for this they have not looked at Wikipedia. Nach was born in Albacete, although he did spend his childhood in Alicante. It soon finds another errata in the Topa text, and much more serious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj2SDVWOQR0
“They have received 30 platinum albums for selling more than three million records throughout their career.” Yes, correct, if we were in 2006. On the tour of the album ‘Voces de Áratratumba’ (2005), they were already given the 30 platinum discs that accumulated only with the sales of their first four works, equivalent to three million Discs sold. Today, the Muñoz brothers add 70 platinum records.
There is a common failure, which can be counted as one or several, in many of these artists. The outstanding theme does not coincide with the album represented. For example, with Bh itself, they stand out ‘starting the corduroy’, but the illustration is from its debut album. I am being too picky, I don’t know, but why for laziness and Leiva choose the cover of the single ‘The call’? It is not even an album. Above, both the “proposed” theme (‘terribly cruel’) and the albums mentioned in the text are only Leiva.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BVP72VRGQS
The mistake they make with Amaral is almost a meme. Taking advantage of anyone who doubts, ‘they are my friends’ does not exist. There is no love song that is called that. However, they have referred to ‘Marta, Sebas, Guille and the others’ in the Musical Guide of the Community of Madrid. On the other hand, and as Fernando Neira mentions for the country, it is certainly “curious and fun” that the song ‘A good day’ of the planets for a guide aimed at primary students, for that of the «of the« of the «of the« of the «of the« of the « four million stripes ».
The last fudge arrives with Rosalia, who stands out as “the first artist who has been nominated for Grammy for the best new artist with a Spanish debut album.” However, it was not nominated by ‘Los Angeles’, his first album, but by ‘the bad want’. Of course, there are also many spelling and editing errors, but grace is also that the children of the schools discover them for themselves.
