Basic manual for writing the summer song

Or how to become a summer musician (initiation level) in six easy steps.
Friends, "summer has arrived, it's arrived, it's here" and with it, the best of those months: people who run away as if life were going to the beach, families that cry because they do not know what to do with children , the reign of the flip flops and the sandals (without socks, that we are not yet completely) ... and, of course, the song of the summer, which arrives for, delight us during the next months. But what do summer songs have to install in our subconscious? Because there are many who aspire to this throne, but very few who achieve crown.

If you are a musician, a singer or you just have an organ, a guitar and a lot of nose the talent can be disguised in the mixing room Attentive to the definitive guide to get the song of the summer:

1. Look for a cool name
You have several options: you can choose a scary name (Pitbull or Don Omar are already taken), translate your name into English (Enrique Martín sells less than Ricky Martin, where will he end up!) Or get very creative (Hall Effect, The Tsé Tsé Fly, Veloz Shoe or The Refreshments are also registered). If your name is José Luis, Paco or Mari Carmen at first you have a little raw (unless you dedicate yourself to the light song) but not impossible because there you have the memory of Conchita or Merche.

2. Choose a companion
Here one triumph, the team triumphs. Years ago the normal thing was either to go free (to David Civera) or to set up a group (following the great example of The Ketchup). And that's it. The only innovators were Ana Belén, Víctor Manuel, Serrat and Miguel Ríos who left the four togetherand it was perfect for mus games.
But today that is completely demodé. Now his thing is to join forces with a colleague of the guild and mount a song to pachas: your song is nothing if you do not have a feat . Mark Anthony ft People of Zone in La Gozadera (2015). People of zone ft Enrique Iglesias in Bailando (2014). Enrique Iglesias ft Nicky Jam in El Perdón (2015). Wisin ft Ricky Martin and Jennifer Lopez in Adrenalina (2014) ... Come on, like an orgy of all with everyone but without the sexual part.

3. The only possible gender
The yeyé girl (Concha Velasco, 1965), Summer holidays (Formula V, 1972) or Aire (Pedro Marín, 1980) left the bakery a few decades ago, but if we intend to eat the market with this type of music, we are clear. Yes, that your friend Lucia's wedding arrives and you give it all on the track with the wild hair and the colored stockings as it is sent because this kind of old songs have become vintagewhich is when the old one stops being a pingo and goes up in cache, but you have to know how to listen to what it takes and this ... it will be that it will not.

4. The composition
It's summer and our vital aspirations are usually limited: get a mojito, turn around so that the brunette is more or less equal, do not put sand in the sandwich on the beach, do not sit on the seat of the car with the bikini wet ... Come on, brain activity is kept low and will appreciate any music currado little: verse, refrain (machacón, please) and back to start. So until it is recorded in the subconscious.
Summer songs are, per se, simple and catchy songs that catch us with low defenses. We can not get rid of them until September (with a bit of luck) but we do not need to like them. What's more, they tend to horrify us (come on, La Tortura ). Your advantage? You do not have to be Shakespeare to compose a reggaeton song, which takes a lot of pressure off the subject.
Some time ago, this graphic ran through social networks to devise a successful chorus. There is no unbelievable option: "Mommy, let's light you up until tomorrow against the wall". "Bitch I want to punish you hard all night without anesthesia"spooky. "Girl I come to whip you soft until the sun rises without fear." And so to the infinite macho, because gender would give us a broad study on how to incite violence against women.

5. Inspiration
The songs of the summer treat diverse subjects, always bearing in mind that they are the modern version of the light song, that is to say, little politics, religion and things with chicha and also little poetry. So, where do we get inspiration from?
Of the animal world . We have had two sharks, the one by Henry Méndez in 2013 and the one from Proyecto Uno in 1993, a Venado (Los cantantes, 1995), Los Pajaritos (María Jesús and its accordion, 1981) and in 2006 the Koala came up with its Opa , I went through a corral . We still have a lot of animal kingdom, so I'm seeing the song of flamenco, which is very fashionable as a print or the octopus, there are also a few.You're welcome for the idea.
Of the feeding . Undoubtedly, the one who has been most concerned about what we eat is the fireproof Georgie Dann and the chorizos parrilleros from his Barbacoa (1994). If needed, smear well in Mayonnaise (Chocolate, 2000), it will not be that we have left little caloric. After the cholesterol festival , a snail soup (white band, 1991) to reduce and the friend Juan Luis Guerra who comes to remove to ask that I hope it rains coffee (1990). To be able to be a carajillo, if it is not much trouble.
Women's. You are nobody if you do not have a song with your name. You could do a sociology of fashion names by studying them. The classics: Maria , who took little steps back and forth (Ricky Martin, 1996) and Blondie (1999). The biblical: Salomé (Chayanne, 1999). Racials: Macarena (Los del Río, 1996). Those of all the life: Maria Isabel (The Payos, 1969) and Eva Maria (Formula V, 1973). And of course, names that were marked for life: although Maggie Gyllenhaal put her daughter Ramona because in the United States is super feminine in Spain we will always listen to him with the voice of Fernando Esteso glorifying his breasts.
Of the means of transport . From the most sophisticated to the most rural. You can make a song set in a taxi (Osmani García and Pitbull, 2015), want to take it on a sailboat (Luis Vázquez and Kato López, 2012) or simply embrace your rurality and ask like a desperate yellow Tractor (Zapato Veloz, 1991 ).
Of the truths of drawer. The exaltation of friendship: Friends forever ( Los Manolos, 1992). To make love well you have to come to the south (Raffaella Carrá, 1979). And of course I'm going, there's no beach in Madrid (The Refrescos, 1989)
Love . Because in the song of the summer it is always about that: either we are super in love or they do not make a damn case to us, but in any case we have to shout it to the world because it is a topic that, apparently, interests them a lot. There are those who are waiting, such as Cali and Dandee ( I'll wait for you , 2011) and Juan Magán ( I'll wait for you , 2012), those who do not have things as clear as David Civera who first asks you Tell him I love you (2001) ) and a year later asks to be stopped (2002) Get clear! Dinio, on the other hand, did not get complicated and spent the whole night making love (2003).


6. The dance
All summer songs should be danceable and the more choreography the choreography, the better. And if not, let them tell Clinton, who danced like a champion the Macarena of Los del Río (1996) in the midst of the furor that gave the Americans with this song.
At the beginning of the century the songs with super organized dances triumphed. We danced the Bomba with King Africa in 2000, in 2001 the Do not break my poor Coyote Dax heart anymore and in 2002 we learned the Aserejé de las Ketchup as if we were living in it. We thought that after those years when EVERYTHING had a dance our capacity to learn more things had reached its limit, but no: we still lacked the Waka Waka (Shakira, 2010), the Kuduro Dance (Don Omar, 2011) and the Ai seu ti pego (Michel Teló, 2013). And what will I do about you, brunette?