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C. Tangana and Bárbara Lennie, in the video for the song 'Eat you whole'.
Things are only done in a big way at C. Tangana's house.
Nothing goes unnoticed when the Madrid artist is involved.
Everything he does makes people talk, is commented on, shared, criticized, praised.
His new song,
Eat you whole,
comes loaded with powerful claims: a legend of Brazilian music, Toquinho;
the video stars one of the great talents of Spanish acting, Bárbara Lennie;
the packaging is luxurious and suggestive, one of the ideologues of the new Spanish pop, Alizzz, acts as a producer ...
Eat you whole
takes the witness of
You stopped loving me,
the song most listened to in Spain in the last months of 2020. Both will be included in
El Madrileño,
the new album by C. Tangana, which he plans to publish in February.
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The releases by C. Tangana (Antón Álvarez, Madrid, 30 years old) are becoming a kind of gymkhana with a prize for those who stay up at midnight and listen to it first
(Eat you whole
has been published on the night of Thursday to Friday ).
The Madrid musician had been testing his followers for a few days on social networks: a list of songs by other artists to find out where the shots are going, a video of a few seconds where a distant melody is sensed, a comment in which the guest star, an enigmatic statement in an interview ... a marketing campaign not improvised.
Or as improvised as effective.
And finally it's here,
Eat you whole.
No, it is not that racial hit of
You stopped loving me
(with, remember, La Húngara and El Niño de Elche), and the Madrid musician must be valued not to fall into the temptation of a second part of that.
Eating you whole
is subtle, elegant, daring.
Also catchy.
The central melody is a
bossa nova
rocking chair
, something that the musician already pointed out when publishing a list of songs that inspired him to compose it: songs by Toquinho, Vinícius de Moraes, Chicho Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Jorge Ben ... And always underrated El Pescaílla, doing a very joking version of
Chica de Ipanema,
with a Sinatra voice.
The lyrics to
Eat you whole
are sensual and sexual.
Simple and melancholic.
“I can't help but think.
In your way of speaking.
Roaming ”.
“I can't help but think about your ass as I pass by.
Bouncing.
/ And in the way you tie your hair with a tail, backwards ”, Tangana muses while in the video an image is projected from behind of Barbara Lennie's walk.
Another of the song's strengths is the accompanying video, already a
classic
pack
in Tangana, produced between Santos Bacana and Little Spain.
Recorded in Madrid (the surroundings of the Royal Palace appear), there is an image that the musician is probably delighted with: the one in which Lennie, elegant and seductive, devours the chorizo from the stew that has just been served before gazes between surprised and vicious from a table full of businessmen.
Sophistication pairs with lean and oily tradition.
Nice sticky fingers.
Cartier and cooked.
That is the terrain that Tangana exploits to perfection.
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The song was composed by C. Tangana “almost two years ago” with Víctor Martínez, a multi-instrumentalist who has played with El Niño de Elche or Guitarricadelafuente.
In the machine room of the production is the usual one, Alizzz (from Barcelona, Cristian Quirante), efficient and imaginative.
And the great surprise, the participation on guitar and on the voice of Antônio Pecci tona: “
It is
(São Paulo, 74 years old), a legendary figure of Brazilian music, a man linked to another legend, Vinicius de Moraes, whose musical relationship of a decade is a fundamental part of Brazilian music.
Toquinho is the author of classics such as
The song was composed by C. Tangana “almost two years ago” with Víctor Martínez, a multi-instrumentalist who has played with El Niño de Elche or Guitarricadelafuente.
In the machine room of the production is the usual one, Alizzz (from Barcelona, Cristian Quirante), efficient and imaginative.
And the great surprise, the participation on the guitar and the voice of Antônio Pecci
Toquinho
(São Paulo, 74 years old), legendary figure of Brazilian music, a man linked to another legend, Vinicius de Moraes, whose decade-long musical relationship is fundamental part of Brazilian music.
Toquinho is the author of classics such as
Watercolor, Que maravilha
or
Tarde em Itapuã.
His collaboration in
Eat you whole
is not at all strident: he accompanies the choirs and makes beautiful drawings on the guitar.
This theme is a definite step for C. Tangana to become a massive artist. Time is running fast for him. A few days ago, in an interview for
Rockdelux, he
made a widely commented reflection: “The obsession with Rosalía right now is so great that citing her as a reference is extremely boring. It's like saying you like Coca-Cola. " Perhaps he will soon stop being kombucha tea and become Coca-Cola.