Traditional children’s songs, that everyone has sung when they were little, and that one Cádiz singer-songwriter, La Marehas been reverted with the idea of ”updating the messages that are said in them and that do not fit with today’s idea of equality.” This twist seems to have not pleased everyone and many call them not suitable for all audiences, as they have commented live on ‘AfternoonAR‘. Frank Blanco has been able to speak with the artist and she has explained the reason for these reversals.
All this while some of those songs were playing, with stanzas like “when the boat passed by, don’t tell me anything else, that pretty girl learned to take care of herself now” or the most commented “Lola has five little fingers, to give herself pleasure when she is alone.” Blanco has asked the author directly: “Educational children’s song… or for adults?” She has responded that she has never addressed the children’s audience but that he does have many families who go to his concerts, his recitals, and that his idea was only to update “these songs that we have always sung and whose messages have become outdated.”
The controversy has arisen as a result of a Cantabrian school that was going to use its version of ‘five little wolves‘ at a children’s performance next Monday decided to cancel it. The parents of the children who were going to be part of that party have protested, arguing, among other arguments, that “sexual education and when they are going to know about masturbation will be decided by us as a family.”
Cristina Cifuenteswho praised La Mare’s originality and “her beautiful voice”, commented that she understands these people. “Even if it is treated politely, they are complicated issues, really, and it is logical that families prefer to control these types of messages and those conversations, when the time comes,” something that Cifuentes pointed out while nodding. Cristina Tarregashowing that he shared an opinion with her.
«Dirty look of the adult»
The Mare He has defended himself, so to speak, by pointing out that he does not believe that young children will think about masturbation when listening to the lyrics. «In the end all that interpretation is in the adults, who have the dirtiest eyes. It could be that they go to their room, in their privacy, and play with their hands, I don’t know, other types of things,” he wanted to comment live with the ‘AfternoonAR‘. The sociologist Alberto Sotillo, who was on set, emphasized this and added, to applause from the audience, that there are not so many obstacles placed on the ‘perreo’ and reggaeton songs they hear that “they even play in schools, “They are put on at Christmas parties and all kinds of events.”
La Mare wanted to end by saying that she simply dedicates herself to “making music, regardless of everything” and that she does not understand so much controversy. He has invited everyone to listen to this and other songs that he has reverted: ‘Don Federico‘, ‘As the boat passes‘, ‘The patio of my house‘ – “the patio of my house is particular, when it rains we dance naked without stopping” – and so on other songs that can be heard on networks.
One of them is this, ‘As the boat passes’.
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