Mercurial

Jason was wondering about the macarena, but I consider much more relevant the Aserejé, or the Ketchup song for you the uninitiated.
Actually, the group is the Ketchups, they are the daughters of a very well known Flamenco singer, "el Tomate". The tomato.
At any rate, everybody has been asking what does it mean, aserejé?
The story is that Diego goes to a bar, asking for a song that he doesn’t know, but he can sort of sing. The DJ, his friend, plays it , of course, and we all have party and fandango.
Since we wanted to dance it the other day, while drinking tequila, and finally deciding that dance was not exactly high on the priority list for us, we promptly went into a much more animated discussiona bout the possible origins of the song, and what kind of weird and strange Arabic language is that "aserejé". We were not off the mark, actually.
The aserejé is based on the phonetic transcription of "Rappers Delight"!

I said a hip hop the hippie the hippie
to the hip hip hop, a you dont stop
the rock it to the bang bang boogie say up jumped the boogie
to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat
"Rapper's Delight"
Sugarhill Gang, 1979

Aserejé Aserejé ja de jé de jebe tu de jebere
Sebiunouva majabi an de bugui an de buididipí
"Aserejé"
Las Ketchup, 2002

Now, let's dance.