Watching Todd in the Shadows take on The Macarena, I realised how little I knew about the song that was goddam everywhere when I was a small child:
- Somehow, I always thought the artists behind it were based out of Latin America, but they're actually from Seville. And they were around since the goddam 60s.
- The original version hit it big in Spain in 1993. Apparently, in Spain, the famous version is just sellout crap.
- The familar version is a remix by the Bayside Boys, which more or less plagiarised another remix by Fangoria called the River Fe-Mix and added English lyrics. Fangoria even sued the Bayside Boys for plagiarism, but it failed.
- There's a direct line between line dancing and the Macarena craze. Even before the Bayside Boys did their remix, the song was popular enough in Texas that a local paper did an article that even included interviews with clubgoers who've admitted they were already sick of it.
- The song hit it big in Canada before the US, covered by a group called Los Del Mar.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
