The songs, except for the rarest ones, They have three reasons for being born: 1. The intention to seduce, using any argument so that the person we are interested in will respond to our emotional needs. 2. The chance encounter of reciprocated love, the momentary joy, that ecstasy of millimeter duration in which we believe in what some living people have called "happiness". 3. When it was all over and the songwriter was the one who felt alone and abandoned in the world, since his partner has left (probably with someone else) and has found happiness elsewhere. Most themes fall into this last category, and it is on the basis of this feeling of spite that much of humanity's art has been built.
On the other hand, Spite, in the most ridiculous moments of the 21st century, has a large presence on social media. We have seen how many Facebook users have had their moment of weakness and, believing themselves to be alone, have expressed the nostalgia they feel while the person they long for happily displays their photos on the beach, next to a colorful cocktail, like a Piña Colada, hugging someone we probably don't know but that we already hate in two blinks. These kinds of situations are the source of many of the memes that flood the internet. No matter how sophisticated our smartphone is, Life remains a misery, and we also share it digitally with the rest of humanity.
Well, that's what it's about Mambo and technology, the new video from the Argentine singer-songwriter Maximiliano Calvo. A good mix of high-resolution images with "intimate" moments captured with the pixelation of the phone at the time., where it becomes clear that the author misses his ex-wife, She's already posting, against all odds, the fortunate results of her relationship change. Mind you, the video is well done and the song is catchy. However, the state of desolation remains.