Big BARF!1 to Daddy Yankee!1
Pictures at the link of Daddy Yankee:
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http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/08/25/mccain-s-counter-programming-daddy-yankee.aspxMcCain's Counter-Programming: Daddy Yankee
Holly Bailey
It was a sight you don’t see very often on the GOP campaign trail: John McCain, surrounded by a bevy of squealing teenage girls, many of them so red-faced and struggling to breathe they seemed in danger of passing out right there on the spot. “Ohmigod, ohmigod, ohmigod,” one gasped, nervously fanning herself with her hands. A few feet away, another girl looked as though she had just completed the 100-meter dash at the Olympics, her body heaving with deep breath after deep breath. Secret Service agents on the scene, usually so stoic and emotionless in their work to protect the man who might be the next president, eyed the girls, their faces alternating between pure puzzlement and mild concern.
Of course, none of this had anything to do with McCain. Appearing before a small group of honor students at Phoenix’s Central High School (his wife Cindy’s alma mater) on Monday morning, McCain announced that he had gotten the bling bling endorsement of one Daddy Yankee, a big deal Latin American recording star perhaps best known for his
2006 reggaeton hit “Gasolina.” Daddy Yankee, who met McCain that year at a reception honoring Time Magazine’s most influential people (they both made the list), joined McCain at Central High, quickly upstaging his host. “Sup Mama,” the Daddy said, as he hugged and kissed one of his young fans. Yankee, who met with McCain at his Arlington, Va., campaign headquarters last month (sending Hispanic reporters on scene covering the event into similar hysterics), told the students that
he decided to support McCain, in part, because he had championed the recent immigration reform bill. “(McCain’s) a fighter for the Hispanic community,” the rapper said. “I just want to say thank you Daddy Yankee,” McCain said, pleasing this reporter who wondered if the senator would, in fact, call the star “Daddy.” (For the record, McCain did also refer to Mr. Yankee to as “Ramon”—his real first name.”)
Unfortunately, Daddy Yankee was not joined by his usual posse of young buxom women, who have appeared in most of his music videos. A campaign aide insisted McCain was under no allusions that Yankee’s biggest crossover hit “Gasolina” has anything to do with the energy independence policies he’s been touting on the campaign trail lately but rather a different kind of energy. (The anthem, when translated into English, includes the Yankee repeatedly saying of the unnamed subject of the song: “She likes gasoline!” To which a woman responds, “Give me more gasoline!”) The Daddy later joined McCain on his campaign plane en route to California, where the senator is presiding over finance events before heading to "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." Asked directly by the New York Times’ intrepid Michael Cooper what “Gasolina” really means, the star smiled and said, “Energy independence.”
The strange scene was enough to distract reporters from the fact they believed they would be covering a “press conference” this morning, as the McCain schedule had advertised. McCain, who has been at his Sedona cabin for several days working on his convention speech and readying the announcement of his VP pick, has not taken questions from his traveling press corps since Aug. 13 when he visited Michigan. An aide this morning defended the use of “press conference” to describe the Daddy Yankee event, noting that if McCain were to take questions the campaign would refer to it as a “media availability.” Duly noted.
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Posted By: Denise Velez (August 26, 2008 at 9:16 AM)
I hope McCain's evangelical faithful and values voters are kept in the dark about McCain's strange embrace of Pimp Daddy Yankee. Perhaps McCain was confused by the Yankee reference. He obviously has no staff or handlers who bothered to translate the lyrics of "gasolina" to him. Nor has he watched the video, since it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure them out since the sexual references are quite clear.
I teach women's studies. This is one of the music videos selected by my Latina students to go to the top of their most offensive, misogynist list. Let me be a bit more specific. Gasoline, as referenced in this reggaeton tune, has nothing to do with gas prices. Lot's more to do with what those who take Viagra might want to "pump" out.
The words chanted in the song,
"duro, duro" (hard, hard) are not about hard times in the economy, and the references to
"gatas" (cats) is another term for women which refers to a part of the female anatomy often referenced as a kitten - but starting with the letter "p" and ending in "y". I leave it to you to fill in the blanks. The
exhortations in the song to overthrow America, which also escaped McCain’s uniformed pander radar, are of interest as well, since I thought McCain had made "patriotism" his main theme.
That this endorsement event took place at a High School, where young Latinas, who are at high risk for STD’s , teen pregnancy, and HIV/AIDS, were the attendees, it speaks poorly to what values McCain stands for, for our youth. But it certainly shows McCain’s consistency, since he was also willing to enter his wife into the Miss Buffalo Chip topless pageant in Sturgis. Pimping, prostitution and sexual exploitation and tourism are major internal issues. Perhaps this demonstrates McCain’s expertise on “foreign affairs”.
(A translation of "Gasolina" lyrics at this link, plus THIS post there: )
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/505309.htmlSubject: Re: Spanish Song Translation to English
From: virginiagirl-ga on 27 Aug 2005 18:35 PDT
The translation above is wrong. This song is diry, and all those girls out there singing it need to realize it, you better know what you are saying.
"A ella le gusta la gasolina "
In puerto rico "gasolina" means the same thing that skeet means in the U.S. The correct translation is
"The/This girl likes to be cum on"Once you understand this line you can figure out the rest of the song.
Pretty much
the girl goes out and her dancing gets him excited and he cums on her and she likes it.There you go, beware of what you are singing.
(Couldn't find "exhortations...to overthrow America")
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