Music for entitled Spanish Exchange students
I once had a terrible experience when I was DJing. Picture the scene, its a night that features Techno and Drum and Bass.
2-300 people are having the time of their lives dancing to some serious underground music.
Suddenly a group of (what I presume to be) Spanish students enter the club. Within about 30 seconds they were at the DJ booth shouting one word over and over again:
“Despatico”
“DESPATICO
“DEEEEEESSSSSPAAAATIIIICO”
I honestly had no idea what this meant? They were “desperate”? I was “desperate”? They thought my name was “Despatico”? “Despatico” was the word for toilet/cloakroom?
Being unable to fulfill their request, they soon strode away and I never saw them again. But for many months, I would mull over this strange word in my head – “Despatico”. What could it mean? One day, curiosity got too strong, and I typed “Despatico” into google. I realised it was a actually a song – not just a song, but truly one of the worst songs ever created in the history of human civilization.
I’m not sure who or what “Luis Fonsi featuring Daddy Yankee” is, but listening and watching the video, I see some kind of Bacardi advert made into music – complete with horrible rapping and requisite shots of “hombres” “grinding” (great objectification of women, guys!) into “hot chicks”, morons wearing hats and plenty of hand gestures to show how meaningful this dreck is. The whole thing is backed by music that has presumably been lifted directly from a holiday documentary – “Puerto Rico – a land of contrasts”
I don’t speak Spanish, but an English translation gives us “antipathetic” as a translation for despatico, so that just about sums it up.
In 1975 this kind of Hispanic novelty tune would have been inexcusable – in 2017 in was unbelievable. But once again I note that the Youtube video has (as of today) 6,956,312,425 views. What a terrible world we live in
Worst Moment: The bit where the Twat with the Hat starts rapping – he’s certainly no Chuck D.
