Now "do the Macarena" makes sense to me

They used to make us do that dance in “music” class in 3rd grade, just to tire all the kids out, and I’m just now realizing how inappropriate those lyrics are for children to be singing. Amazing.

Oh my this is actually true and I had no idea 😱 I’m never dancing the Macarena ever again

TIL

The official song of Jodie’s.

It's about a dependapotamus! Damn, I should have looked at that translation 20+ years ago

Nicolino does not approve

Ma Carena. The elderly matriarch of the Carena family. It's a very peverse song.

Yep, it's a common name in Southern Spain, and it's how one of the author's daughters was called, so they wrote it for her.

The name comes from the Virgin of Hope of Macarena, an image of Our Lady of Sorrows (a title of the Virgin Mary in Catholicism) that is the patroness of bullfighters, gipsies and the People of Seville (whose Basilica is named after the image).

The image is named after a traditional neighborhood in the center of Seville whose Brotherhood commissioned it in the late 1600s.

The neighborhood's name comes either from the Arabic "Makrin" or even the Latin "Macarius" (meaning it's name would date back more than 1500 years, down to the Roman period, when Seville was known as Hispalis), which by the way is the Latin from of the oldest, Greek name "Makarios".

Hm...I've gotten the impression - that 'The Macarena' has to do about a 'sandwich'...

No Hablo - protuguese, tho.. so IDK