La Oreja de Van Gogh has chosen New Year’s Eve to present its first single after the return of Amaia Montero to the group, after 18 years. In the performance of La Oreja de Van Gogh at La Casa de la Música, Montero’s protagonism has been absolute: the singer has appeared dressed in luminous white, looking like a snow queen or Björk, while the rest of the members, dressed in black, have remained almost invisible behind her, or without the almost.
Logically, we wanted to underline the importance of this event. And the song that marks Montero’s return to La Oreja is nothing to sneeze at. ‘We are all dancing to the same song’ is the Song of the Day on this first day of 2026.
“I believe in God” is the phrase that begins the chorus of ‘We are all dancing to the same song’ and that, for better or worse, reflects the sentiment of the times. “My way,” the lyrics add, underlining the affirmation of a personal spirituality that serves as a refuge against uncertainty and the rule of the “algorithm.” La Oreja metaphorizes life itself by looking at the stars, appealing to the cosmos and mortality itself: “today we are here and tomorrow we are not,” “we are something supernatural,” “being alive is a science fiction mystery,” Amaia sings, as if almost two centuries had not passed since ‘The Origin of Species’.
‘We’re all dancing to the same song’ is equally nostalgic, and its title could almost be interpreted as a comment on the cancellation of the future that Mark Fisher theorized, that idea that the music of the present lives trapped in a past that comes back again and again, without end. Or maybe, to paraphrase Demi Lovato, none of this is that deep.
In any case, the “same song” proposed by Van Gogh’s Ear is a return to the eighties, a decade permanently installed in the musical vocabulary of the present and that never ends. ‘We are all dancing the same song’ uses another classic La Oreja melody, particularly melancholic, and its sound refers to the radio formula productions of the time that fused keyboards and acoustic guitars, mixing the organic with the synthetic.
In ‘We are all dancing the same song’, a solemn piano chord is also noted that brings it almost closer to the territories of the torch song and, above all, to those of religious music, rounding out the concept of the song. In the end, you don’t know if this song that we’re all dancing to refers to Tears for Fears, A-ha or something else, but it doesn’t matter: the important thing is that it sounds familiar, as if the song had always been there. La Oreja does it again.
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