{"id":12976,"date":"2023-02-15T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/?p=12976"},"modified":"2023-02-14T17:15:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T22:15:48","slug":"la-habitacion-rebeca-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazineampm.com\/en\/la-habitacion-rebeca-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"The room \/ Rebeca Mart\u00ednez"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rebeca is controversial, and when she is not in prison she is being sought\". This is how the great Rufo Caballero defined Rebeca Mart\u00ednez more than 10 years ago, and the truth is that time, once again, has proven him right.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever age you are, if you live in Cuba, it's hard not to have heard of this woman at least once. Who would have thought that Rebeca Mart\u00ednez would come back to be <\/span>trending<\/span><\/i> in social networks by 2023?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The blonde from the capital has gone through everything: recognized dancer, humorist, actress, presenter, singer, <\/span>sex symbol<\/span><\/i><\/a>, <\/span>showgirl<\/span><\/i> controversial, and, finally, social networking phenomenon on a regular basis as meme material.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is certain is that, at more than 50 years of age, Rebeca refuses to retire. <\/span>\u2014<\/span>why would I have to?<\/span>\u2014.<\/span> She always stirs up the island's hornet's nest with something new. Whether it's a studio session and a sensual dress for Christmas, or her viral video for \"<\/span>and we continue with the nasobuco<\/span><\/i>\"or some photos Photoshopped in the style of the year 2000. The point is not to go unnoticed, something she has learned to do very well over the years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now she is once again reinforcing her facet as a singer, her favorite side according to her own words and the one she would like to be recognized for. But beware, she is far from being the woman in the hymn \"\u00bf \u00bf?<\/span>Rakarakachan<\/span><\/i> by <\/span>Get Fit,*<\/span><\/i>\u00a0or that of its pop-rock hits <\/span>All men are equal<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>I'm going to let my hair down<\/span><\/i>. Not at all. Times have changed, and that formula, at the present time, would not have worked for him except for an invitation to <\/span>live rope<\/span><\/i> or perhaps to<\/span> Piso 6<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rebeca knows it, and to continue being trendy, she moves away from the sound she had us used to and resuscitates in everyone's mouth with a new musical track called \"The New Music\". <\/span>The room<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It's a simple track from a compositional point of view, and I'm not going to complicate myself in analyzing and deconstructing it too much because the truth is that it doesn't need it. It is what it is: a simplistic, diaphanous and carefree song that follows the thread of others of its creator, Tanya <\/span>\u2014<\/span>The latter had its moment of greatest visibility at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the following decade, and hit the hit song\u00a0 <\/span>That man is crazy<\/span><\/i> before emigrating in 1993, although he returned to the Cuban scene with some assiduity a few years ago.<\/span>\u2014<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Its strong point is, without a doubt, the catchiness of its lyrics (for better or for worse, depending on how you look at it), and above all the persistent use of double entendre, which without reaching the foul language gives the song that picantic touch and makes you remember that this type of pieces, as in the past, have been very popular. <\/span>If you ask me for the fish, I will give it to you.<\/span><\/i> by Eliseo Grenet or <\/span>Chacho and Chicha's hut<\/span><\/i> by Tony \u00c1vila, are liked in the country. It is said that Cubans are hot by nature, and this kind of songs often become resounding hits. It is just that they are not usually composed and performed by women.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Verses such as \"<\/span>sitting in the room doing porompompom.\"<\/span><\/i>, y \"<\/span>I have the Trojan horse and he sends a tremendous jewel\".<\/span><\/i>probably have come to stay in the popular imaginary and popular speech.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, I do not believe that this catchy lyric backed with the accurate use of the picaresque, by itself, would have put the song in the center of the media spotlight, as it is right now; and the fact that it was weeks on the Pistacubana site before many knew about it, serves to support my argument.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n