Veronica
February 11, 2008 10:33 AM
A song for lovely miss V.
I've been meaning to post a song for a while, but I've been really busy. Last week, when I finally started recording again, my studio started to show error messages, so, while I fix that, here is an old song.
My girlfriend (very much like me) has a thing for old Latin American music, like tango and boleros, and this is the first song I wrote for her, so I tried to write it as something from the 1950s or so. It's inevitably cheesy (cursi, we say), but hopefully not over the top. You'll tell me, I guess.
I've been meaning to post a song for a while, but I've been really busy. Last week, when I finally started recording again, my studio started to show error messages, so, while I fix that, here is an old song.
My girlfriend (very much like me) has a thing for old Latin American music, like tango and boleros, and this is the first song I wrote for her, so I tried to write it as something from the 1950s or so. It's inevitably cheesy (cursi, we say), but hopefully not over the top. You'll tell me, I guess.
posted by micayetoca (13 comments total) 7 users marked this as a favorite
Wonderful voice and wonderful song. I think you hit the bolero aspect dead on. Everything here is perfect. I'm really jealous of your guitar playing, in case I've never told you that before.
my studio started to show error messages
NNNNNNNoooooooooooooooooo!
I hope the problem is fixed soon.
posted by sleepy pete at 2:26 PM on February 11, 2008
my studio started to show error messages
NNNNNNNoooooooooooooooooo!
I hope the problem is fixed soon.
posted by sleepy pete at 2:26 PM on February 11, 2008
I also love your guitar playing, and the bolero style -- and your singing too. If you have the lyrics easily on hand, it would great to read them even though my Spanish is pretty damn rusty.
I do love a good love song. Some cheese is pretty delicious, you know.
posted by melissa may at 3:10 PM on February 11, 2008
I do love a good love song. Some cheese is pretty delicious, you know.
posted by melissa may at 3:10 PM on February 11, 2008
Cada una de esas pecas que Each one of those freckles you portas con altanería so altively bear una noche más oscura in a much darker night fueron mis estrellas guía were my guiding stars Verónica escucha y créeme Veronica listen to me and trust me como no quisieras creer just like you wouldn't do que si para tí es extraño you think this all is unlikely para mí así había de ser For me it's meant to be México es tan sólo un puerto Mexico is but a port de barcos que yo imagino of ships from my imagination y mis imaginaciones And my imagined ravings navegan siempre a destino Always arrive at their destination Verónica escucha y créeme Veronica listen to me and trust me que yo no te sé mentir I couldn't lie to you en un barco imaginado In an imagined ship tú y yo vamos a partir you and I will set sail Cada una de las noches que Each one of the nights pase durmiendo a tu vera That I may spend by your side será mi grande tesoro Will be my great treasure cada una la primera each one will be the first Verónica escucha y créeme Veronica listen to me and trust me esta vez más que ninguna This time more than any other si encontrarte fue mi suerte if finding you was my luck el tenerte es mi fortuna having you is my fortuneJust because you asked, melissa may, lyrics and a terrible, quick translation. Of course, it's a bit better in Spanish, some things sound plain silly when they are translated.
sleepy pete: thanks a lot. But I would trade my guitar playing for your voice, songwriting or recording skills any day. And yeah, hopefully I'll mend the studio quickly enough. Perhaps I'll just have to bite the bullet, lose the current data and reformat the disk.
And Corduroy. Thanks a lot. It's always nice to get nice comments from someone whose music you like.
posted by micayetoca at 5:14 PM on February 11, 2008 [1 favorite]
Hey congrats micayetoca! This is great. I don't know if this is cheesy or not. Freckles as guiding stars sounds pretty sexy and suave to me. But anyway, this is fantastic and I'll be playing it the next time the wife and I have a candle-lit dinner together.
posted by snsranch at 6:30 PM on February 11, 2008
posted by snsranch at 6:30 PM on February 11, 2008
Really great. Love the guitar also. And those crazy rolling "r's", especially on "barcos." You're tongue must be exhausted.
sounds pretty sexy and suave to me
snsranch, between this and you throwing your virtual underwear at me in my last post, you're going to get some kind of groupie reputation. Kidding, I'm kidding.
posted by chococat at 6:58 PM on February 11, 2008
sounds pretty sexy and suave to me
snsranch, between this and you throwing your virtual underwear at me in my last post, you're going to get some kind of groupie reputation. Kidding, I'm kidding.
posted by chococat at 6:58 PM on February 11, 2008
I love it.
posted by not_on_display at 7:47 PM on February 11, 2008
posted by not_on_display at 7:47 PM on February 11, 2008
Freckles as guiding stars? I've got to go with snsranch here.
/fans self
And even my crap Spanish tells me that it your imagery is much more finely expressed in the original. Thanks very much for providing the lyrics. I'm singing along with you now, in my even worse accent.
posted by melissa may at 8:48 PM on February 11, 2008
/fans self
And even my crap Spanish tells me that it your imagery is much more finely expressed in the original. Thanks very much for providing the lyrics. I'm singing along with you now, in my even worse accent.
posted by melissa may at 8:48 PM on February 11, 2008
Nice. I like the wordless, crooning section (starting at 1:20) and when it gets quiet again immediately thereafter.
So is this technically a bolero, or what?
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 9:03 PM on February 11, 2008
So is this technically a bolero, or what?
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 9:03 PM on February 11, 2008
Very nice, mica.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 2:44 AM on February 12, 2008
posted by flapjax at midnite at 2:44 AM on February 12, 2008
Karlos, technically it's a Son Istmeño, of which La Petrona (played in this link by el Dueto de Tinito y Porfirio) is a fantastic example. So it's not bolero, but it's a not-so-distant relative.
And thank you all for the comments. The freckles and guiding stars thing came up because I met my girlfriend when I came to Venezuela for a vacation, so, when we were saying goodbye at the airport I was telling her I would find my way back, and she said something like "or you may end up lost somewhere else". To which I replied (and I know this is very, very cheesy) that if I lost my way back, her freckles would be my guiding stars. It worked. It took me six months, but I did come back. And yes, those six months were made up of much darker nights, and yes, her freckles were my guiding stars.
Sorry if this is too much information (or cheese).
posted by micayetoca at 5:29 AM on February 12, 2008
And thank you all for the comments. The freckles and guiding stars thing came up because I met my girlfriend when I came to Venezuela for a vacation, so, when we were saying goodbye at the airport I was telling her I would find my way back, and she said something like "or you may end up lost somewhere else". To which I replied (and I know this is very, very cheesy) that if I lost my way back, her freckles would be my guiding stars. It worked. It took me six months, but I did come back. And yes, those six months were made up of much darker nights, and yes, her freckles were my guiding stars.
Sorry if this is too much information (or cheese).
posted by micayetoca at 5:29 AM on February 12, 2008
This is great, micayetoca. I really like your vocal performance here, it's sensitive yet confident. The guitar playing is excellent as well. Good stuff! Hope your recording situation gets fixed soon.
posted by edlundart at 10:50 PM on February 12, 2008
posted by edlundart at 10:50 PM on February 12, 2008
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posted by Corduroy at 12:14 PM on February 11, 2008