Don't worry. We're not doing a Spanish week. We ARE going to post Julieta Venegas whenever she pops up on our radar, though, because she is a delight, and she DID when we started writing yesterday's post - because, of course, all Spanish-language artists are the same, right?
Wrong. Really, really wrong.
This song, the title song from her Grammy Award-winning hit album of the same name from 2006, deals with the acceptance of a loved one for everything they are - the good and the bad - fitting in thematically with the whole album's theme of the ups and downs of relationships.
That's right, English speakers. These theme exist in songs in other languages. And few write them better than Julieta Venegas. She has forged a quiet and understated, yet very successful, career writing thoughtful music in Spanish - and, thirty years into her career, continues to do so.
She also continues to perform this song. Here she is, on piano in 2000, giving a heartfelt rendition of the tune in a live performance to a pandemic-driven empty room. I haven't mentioned here that she's multiinstrumental (I did here) but, she's multiinstrumental.
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