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Straight talk, golden dreams – contradictions rule the day!
In “Hablando En Plata,” Melendi opens a suitcase full of opposites and shakes them out like confetti. The Spanish singer piles up everyday images – pirated CDs, street-corner roses, fairy tales – beside bigger-than-life snapshots such as “a funeral and four weddings.” By stringing these contrasts together, he paints life as a roller-coaster where the sad can laugh, the plain can dazzle, and truth can hide inside a lie told for love. The chorus’s repetitive chant is catchy but also revealing: while we may try to speak plainly (plata), our hopes always glitter in gold (oro), vaulting us sky-high one moment and dropping us into uncertainty the next.
In the verses, Melendi admits he’s lost track of time, logic, and even his own feelings: if something can go up and down, get wet and dry, how can he know what’s real? This fog clears only when he focuses on one clear point – “I only think about you.” The song becomes a witty, street-wise meditation on life’s ironies and the way love slices through the confusion. Expect a playful Spanish vocabulary lesson wrapped in a reminder that reality, like music, is mixed in unexpected keys.
Melendi (Ramón Melendi Espina) is a Spanish singer and songwriter from Oviedo whose sound blends pop, rumba, and pop rock. He broke through with his debut album Sin noticias de Holanda in 2003, and his single "Con la luna llena" became the official theme of the 2004 Vuelta a España.
His catalog mixes catchy hooks with heartfelt, streetwise storytelling, including the Real Oviedo anthem "Volveremos." He has also appeared as a coach on La Voz Kids in Mexico. In 2025 he celebrated two decades on stage with the "20 años sin noticias" tour, drawing huge crowds across Spain.