Enrique Iglesias’ Bailando

There are so many songs (and music videos) I personally like by Enrique Iglesias. From way back in the 90s to later days. I’m tempted to list them all at once, as I love them so much, but they might offer the perfect guidebook to pretending to be the ideal partner and I don’t want to facilitate that! At least let them go through the trouble of doing their homework. However, this one takes the spot as one I will always enjoy, so I must share it!

Parts of the music video were filmed here, where I was born and still live, in the Dominican Republic. That in itself is enough to excite me! I wish I had been there! If not somewhere in it, then at least seeing it made (but thankfully, there are behind-the-scenes videos of it [English/Spanish]). And I happen to appreciate how it captures different sides of the country, including what makes it distinctively Dominican. Some locals would scoff at having the “lower” places shown internationally, but it’s not a problem to me. There’s a kind of beauty to it that certain people would get. And besides, you’d have to be ignorant to believe that it is all there is to the island.

Furthermore, it is such a compliment, as a song, if you have the traits highlighted and savored (or think you do, haha). But for real, it’s nice to have those intense and “crazy” traits celebrated in a woman. I’m just like, “Yes, romantics! Keep our standards high! Shouldn’t dim ourselves for anyone!” Quite often, I’ve heard that romantic music is bad for people because reality is something else. Well, I think the reality we currently have is bad for people. So… maybe the solution is to have more romanticism, not less.

Beyond all that, though, what truly makes me go out of my mind for it is how, at the same time, it brings up all these different realms to learn about as being into them. Physics, chemistry, anatomy, and then also philosophy and fantasy! Speaking of being taken to other dimensions! I cannot explain to you exactly why this is so significant to me, but it is. And it’s intertwined so well with simpler pleasures, too. Things I’ve never seen as mutually exclusive but had to argue. This is what most makes me want to claim this song.

And don’t get me started on the play of colors and the clash of cultures in those dancing scenes through that wide alley. It meant so much to me!

This song is often playing at the grocery store while I do my regular shopping, and I never get tired of it. More from Enrique often plays around here anywhere. We indeed love him.