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Even the unofficial anthem of the convention, the cheery Latin dance hit Macarena, cited by Gore and mimed by Hillary Rodham Clinton and thousands of delegates, held a hidden message. The song (which is performed in the kind of lockstep the party wanted from its delegates) is an ode to seduction. "Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena," goes the chorus in Spanish. Translation: "Give your body joy, Macarena...
...sure exactly when the realization sank in, but I have a feeling it was sometime between the millionth radio-play of "Macarena" and the million-and-first of That Fujees Song. School schedules may vary; temperatures may dip and soar, but there's no more predictable indicator of the arrival of summer than the calculated, bankable megahits of the entertainment industry...
...frolicking strain of "Macarena" drifts out of radios and into psyches across America, the vixenly voice seems to amplify and to speak for a whole moment of cultural transaction between mass entertainment marketers and the haplessly bombarded citizen. For the five-millionth time, the lyric wends its way out of the chorus...
...city's residents resent the presence of the drug lords, others have developed a grudging pride concerning their town's prominence -- and a visible annoyance at recent U.S. attempts to have those responsible extradited to the U.S. One afternoon, as a foreigner got up to leave Medellin's Macarena bullring, someone in the crowd shouted, "Hey, you, what about extradition?" It was an unfriendly, almost chilling challenge. The crowd parted to allow the stranger through and then closed ranks around the man again -- just as Medellin sometimes seems to shelter the wealthy cartel that has made the city the most...
...March, "Macarena," Behr...