"Don't think I'm talking to the person next door because I'm talking to you," says a verse from the song "Gente que no", by
Todos Tus Muertos
, part of their first album in 1988. That song,
re-released 36 years later by La Delio Valdez
is the soundtrack of a new chapter of the
dialectical confrontations between some artists and
the administration of
Javier Milei and his "chainsaw"
to achieve zero deficit.
In Córdoba, in Cosquín Rock, the rapper Dillom and Lali Espósito fired heavy ammunition against the Government.
This Monday, during one of the concerts within the framework of the
National Confluence Festival
, La Delio Valdéz
reverted
one of the Argentine punk anthems and
took aim at the libertarian government
and its cuts, particularly
in culture
.
"Because there are people who support you, people who don't.
There are chainsaw people and people who don't
," was heard on Neuquén soil, before a crowd that danced to the rhythm of the group to which
the Colombian Ivonne Guzmán
provides the voice - although not in that passage.
The song continued just as the original version did, stretching the phrase "people who noooo, people who noooo" over and over again.
But the change resonated with the public at a
public festival
, the kind to which libertarians tell the bills for artists.
The thing is that criticism from the Casa Rosada had fallen in recent days on the financing of festivals such as Cosquín Rock, an alleged dilemma that the head of state added to in X by retweeting who financially supports these events.
"Tsunami de chanes," wrote Milei, recently arrived from Israel and Italy, where she began to rebuild ties with the Vatican.
José Palazzo, producer of the festival in Córdoba, responded: “Dear Mr. President, 24 years ago, private entrepreneurs, with
tickets and private brands
and personal efforts, did it.
It is also carried out in Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Mexico, the USA and Spain.
Here the artists are free, rest assured.”
This is not the case with national holidays.
La Delio also played at Cosquín Rock.
But her message waited for Neuquén.
Then brought up to the dialectical confrontation,
Ivonne Guzmán
, voice of the orchestra, gave her position on the matter after the show in which the position of her band left no gray.
Ivonne Guzmán, from La Delio Valdéz at Cosquín Rock, before playing in Neuquén.Photo Emmanuel Fernández
The singer who emerged in the television reality show that formed the group Bandana assured that
culture
should not be thought of "as if it were
just entertainment
."
"We must not only see culture from the entertainment side. The expression itself has a value, as well as all the work it generates.
It is important to sustain the festival spaces
," said Ivonne in dialogue with the Télam agency.
It was not the only voice of La Delio Valdéz.
" Culture
cannot be reduced to the commercial fact
of who can buy a ticket or not," completed, in the same sense, Damián Chavarría, the orchestra's trombone player.
From the rapper who targeted Caputo to Lali's "antipatria"
Days before, just in Cosquín, the singer Dillom did a
cover of Las Manos de Filippi
, another protest band, and to the lyrics of Señor Cobranza - a hit also recorded and popularized by Bersuit Vergarabat - he altered a verse to leave a controversial message: “I'm moving here, I'm moving there,
they have to kill Caputo in the square
.”
Dylan León Masa was reported for threats to the Minister of Economy.
Lali
Espósito, on the same stage, called
Milei's followers "anti-patriarch"
by saying before starting her presentation: “This is a very special show for me because I am not only fulfilling a dream as an artist of being at such an event.
Everything that happens to the artist is a collective matter and does not depend only on the artist, it is purely on the public.
It is not demagoguery.
That’s what I want to celebrate today,” she began.
“I thought about a lot of things to say.
You imagine the context.
The most important thing, at least for me, is that this party that we Argentines are, this union that generates art, music, culture, no one is ever going to take it away from us,” she emphasized.
Then, he completed: "This song is for the liars, the stupid, the bad people, the ones who don't value, the anti-patriarch... Everyone."
That same night Lali sang “that if I smoke, that I live,
that I drink, that I live off the State
.”
There will be more encores in this exhibition of the music conservatory and political chicanes.
D.S.