#cayetano

So, Carolina Durante ( “Carolina During”????) is a relatively new band from Madrid, forming in 2017, and just starting to explode. They are kinda punk, and became famous with their song “Perdona (Ahora Sí que Sí)”, featuring the winner of OT 2017 and representative of Spain in Eurovision 2018, Amaia Romero, who’s dating the singer (the song even got to be in Skam España s2!!!) Right now they are working on their first album. The members are: Diego Ibáñez (singer), Martín Vallhonrat (bass), Juan Pedrayes (drums), and Mario del Valle (guitar). They are honestly amazing, and I like to think about them as the modern “Los Nikis”, an 80s band kinda like them, one day I’ll talk about their biggest hit, “El Imperio Contraataca”.

The song itself, “Cayetano”, is named like that for one of the most common and stereotypical names among the “pijos”, Cayetano / Cayetana, along with others like Borja, Mauro, Candela, Almudena, or María Jesús / María José. As I said, it talks about the pijos, and I think this song got me so bad because it talks about literally 90% of my classmates during school and high school, and I find that amazing.

So, let’s go with the lyrics, and below I’ll talk a bit about the music video and I’ll translate the subtitles!

Todos mis amigos se llaman Cayetano

All my friends are called Cayetano Zapatillas Pompeii, alguno tiene barco

Pompeii Sneakers (1), some of them have boats. Siempre tres botones desabrochados

Always three buttons undone Menudo pelazo, CEU San Pablo

Amazing hair, CEU San Pablo (2) Joder, como mola el verano

Fuck, how amazing the summer is Ibiza, Marbella, todos gaditanos

Ibiza, Marbella, we’re all from Cádiz (3) Ojo a mis amigas del voluntariado

Look out for my voluntary service friends  La finca en Segovia, el puestazo

The estate in Segovia, the great place (4)

Cayetano, Cayetano

Cayetano, Cayetano Todos mis amigos se llaman Cayetano

All of my friends are called Cayetano

Todos mis amigos se llaman Cayetano

All of my friends are called Cayetano No votan al PP, votan a Ciudadanos

They don’t vote for PP, they vote for Ciudadanos (5) Morat, Taburete, qué grupazos

Morat, Taburete, great groups (6) En sus conciertos cómo lo pasamos

In their concerts we go wild En las Big Four 100000 contactos

In the Big Four 100000 contacts (7) ¿Quieres entrar ahí? te recomendamos

Do yo want to get there? We recommend you Salir de fiesta, el reservado

Going out, to the reserved No pasa nada, está tó pagado

Don’t worry, it’s all paid

1. These are the shoes they are talking about

2. CEU San Pablo, along with the Francisco de Vitoria and Comillas, is the most “pijo” centric university. Needless to say, there are a lot of people who went to my school there. And also, fun fact, there’s a campus (I don’t know if it’s the only one) in my town, so yay 

3. Three typical pijo hotspot during summer, along with others like Dènia or Sanxenxo.

4. Segovia is the province directly north of Madrid. In the south for example, these kinds of estates are called “cortijos”, which has spawned the term “pijo cortijero”. This is a cortijo:

5. PP is a traditional right-wing party, while Ciudadanos is a new one, that claims to be liberal and in the center of the political spectrum, although it has repeatedly worked with PP and the new fascist party, VOX, and never with the left. Fun fact, PP, Ciudadanos and VOX are usually called the “trifachito” ( “the three little fascists”)

6. “Morat” and “Taburete” (specially the latter) are considered the favourite groups of the pijos (and its true tbh). If you want to here how they sound, listen to “Cómo te atreves a volver” from Morat and “Sirenas” from Taburete, their two greatest hits. I personally like some of their songs, but that’s it. Not a huge fan really.

7. I had to look this up but, according to Wikipedia, the “Big 4″ are the top biggest accounting firms in the world.

And now, onto the music video. It parodies one of those programs where they visit other people homes, mostly because they are eccentric, or really luxurious, or weird, etc etc, and the singer is basically showing them their house, the typical pijo house. Here is what the subtitles say throughout the video:

(intro with no subs): “Sorry for being late, guys, I was in an important meeting. Well, let’s go inside and I show you the little hut, no? Let’s go!”

(subs start):

“Well then... this would be the house of Carolina Durante, the group. We are here in an artistic retreat preparing the new album, the first one. And here... the afternoon snack [”merienda”]. Well, if it isn’t my friend Mariajo! [Mariajo is the short form of María José]. Come on, beautiful, everybody is over there. And this is the Hall, where the important visits come from”. (Cayetano trying to impress the girl) (Cayetana is oblivious)

“Santi [short form of Santiago] is like part of the family, he is one more. Right, Santi? And that, Santi? What’s that?” (Santi): I’m sorry sir. “This is fucking incredible. Fuck Santi... Fucking incredible. Well... come in, let’s go. Fuck, shit... Well, now silence, that Carolina Durante is rehearsing, let’s go”. (Amazing solo)

Cayetana: Play “Sirenas” [as I’ve said before, “Taburete”’s biggest hit].

“Well, here is when the visit ends. It was a pleasure, I hope you had a great time. See you soon”.