Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Wendy!


This is some heavy shit.

Ever wanted to see a little girl sing a heart-wrenching number about her dead father? Well, now you can, thanks to Wendy Sulca and her song "Papito."

For you non-Spanish speakers, here's how the song begins:
"Daddy, why did you leave me when I was so young? Today I look everywhere but can't find you. I miss your hugs and kisses Dad."
Cut together with scenes of Wendy at the graveyard and tearfully singing lyrics along the lines of, "Daddy please don't leave me" and "Daddy please don't go," this is some pretty intense material for a little girl. Throw in some over-the-top voiceover, harp music and her band's choreographed dance moves and this video becomes almost incomprehensibly bizarre. Wendy's melodramatic expressions and the random beauty scenes where she's walking on the beach in makeup and sexy clothes do little to normalize the situation.

Despite the incredible weirdness of the whole situation, the music is oddly compelling. With the harp and the oddball vocal intonations, this little Peruvian girl is like some sort of bizarro Joanna Newsom. And although the video contains some clearly staged melancholy, there is a real sense of agony and sadness in the music itself.

Thanks to Oro11, who snagged an entire Wendy VCD and slipped me a copy.
Posted by Disco Shawn at 10:36 AM

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)