Post 3: The Best Song Ever (Due to 10-11)

 Post 3: The Best Song Ever:

(Write the following post in between 200-250 words, also make comments on your teacher's blog and on 3 of your classmates' blogs)


Thinking about this topic has had a strange effect in my mind since I have had to think over music, songs, bands and at the same time it has forced me to evoke good and bad past-life-experiences, particularly, this task has struck me in my emotional memories.

In this task I have had to remember the very intense, young-age parties on which music was a manifestation of the euphoria lived during my youngster years, also, it has made travel back down memory lane and brought me the smells of those first-love spring-time afternoons, on which teenage love fulfilled my teenage life.

However, after going through several of these experiences I have decided that I am going to consider the best song ever to a song that many times had been a bit overlooked due to our strong cultural tendency towards euro centrism. This son was "rescued" by Violeta Parra and it is the Chilean song for celebrating people's birthdays.

This song, which I shall reveal soon, has been made invisible by the typical "Happy Birthday" song, that we all sing to celebrate someone's birthday, which is a song born in the core of Euro.Culture, but the song titled "El Día de Tu Cumpleaños", interpreted by Violeta Parra (link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOwxEEwgUAc) has a completely different rhythm and it also mentions things that belong to the very oldest Chilean tradition.

Violeta mentions in the song, several characteristic traditional chilean ways to celebrate birthdays,  for instance the type of Birthday Cake people used to eat for celebrations (called traditionally as Tortilla Candeal) is mentioned, among other peculiarities of the song,

After having said all the aforementioned, I must say I consider this one of the best songs ever, since it reveals aspects of the deep culture of the chilean countryside and also because it is an anti hegemonic way of leaving behind the so imposed eurocentrism and start getting deeper knowledge of our roots.

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  1. Anónimo3 de noviembre de 2020 a las 20:02

    A very interesting reflection on this song

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  2. Anónimo5 de noviembre de 2020 a las 10:54

    The worst thing of globalism and eurocentrism is not the things we have learned, interact and even copy from other cultures; is, as you said, the rupture with our own cultural roots: all the learnings from our ancestors that have been lost, all the extinct traditions, all the songs that have disappeared over the years.

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  3. Catalina RB16 de noviembre de 2020 a las 15:55

    we have lost a lot of wonderful things of our culture... the song is really beautiful, thanks for sharing!

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  4. Emilia Sánchez17 de noviembre de 2020 a las 10:18


    Violeta Parra can transform any song into the best song ever

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  5. Valentina Alegría 17 de noviembre de 2020 a las 11:36

    I never heard about this song! Now I have learned something new.

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  6. karinaberrios17 de noviembre de 2020 a las 17:36

    I'm going to listen to the song, it sounds interesting!

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  7. Paula Kelly22 de noviembre de 2020 a las 15:03

    I heard my foreign neighbords singing another version of happy birthday song and they made me wonder why we don't have our own version. I'm gonna listen this, sounds interesting.

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  8. Javiera Sobarzo25 de noviembre de 2020 a las 19:45

    I didn't know that this song was sung for birthdays, I find it very interesting to appreciate and more if it is from a great artist like Violeta Parra.

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  9. Yerko26 de noviembre de 2020 a las 10:53

    It is interesting to think that we could have our own version of happy birthday, like many other countries that do.

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  10. Gonzalo Araya R29 de noviembre de 2020 a las 20:10

    Very good choice! Violeta Parrera's work is amazing

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  11. Giselle Correa (◕‿◕)1 de diciembre de 2020 a las 10:00

    Like many of my classmates, I didn't know about this song and when I heard it, I thought of those traditions it mentions, of which I had no idea.
    As you reflect on them, they are lost and forgotten.

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  12. Ariel1 de diciembre de 2020 a las 10:58

    I love Violeta Parra. I recommend you watch the movie "Violeta se fue a los cielos".

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  13. Laura De La Torre1 de diciembre de 2020 a las 13:42


    Hello, how strong your story. I loved it. Violeta Parra is one of the best artists in the history of Chile

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  14. Just Morphine plis1 de diciembre de 2020 a las 18:01

    I think this song is one of the few that i haven't heard of Violeta Parra, but now i really want to heard it!

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  15. Marcelo Meza3 de diciembre de 2020 a las 15:45

    Violeta was a great promoter of popular music in our country

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  16. Javiera G. Lira3 de diciembre de 2020 a las 16:16

    What an interesting reflection! I had never heard this song before

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  17. Claudio Flores3 de diciembre de 2020 a las 17:37

    I just listened, and is an amazing song! I can't believe that I never heard that before :o

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  18. Neira4 de diciembre de 2020 a las 13:09

    Violet will never die in our hearts <3

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  19. m19 de diciembre de 2020 a las 8:33

    such a talented woman, creative and loyal to her territory

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