Miss Colombia

1. Para Transcribir (SOL): this feels like a poem to me, the way it's written and the lyrics are delivered with the production makes me ascend, it's mostly about her aknowledging that to put certain feelings out there she needs to be smart enough not to go back to places or people that have hurt her. the thing is the album in general reads like a breakup, and it is, but the breakup is with colombia, cause as much as she loves the country, it has hurt her in many ways

2. Eso Que Tu Haces: so this is the song lyric i highlighted in the rate post
"Today I understood, sitting in your sand
That because of you I stopped being myself
It's not your fault that you are like this
And don't give me anything if you don't want to"
cause i think it conveys the themes of the song and the album in this part, while repeating "that what you do isnt love" which i love how much she switches up lyrics she's repetitive on (in this case the changes through her voice)

3. Nada: now this song is very special to me, Li Saumet is a great colombian musician and mostly the reason I discovered Lido, i love the production here but also the lyrics, in my opinion, are the strongest, it's just a woman finding her roots in nature more than anything, and finding strenght in all these things, the moon, the rain, etc. Nature has always been depicted in feminine ways especially in Colombian mythology, however, the song is about how there is nothing left for women, especially women that are connected to nature, and black and indigenous women are the ones that are closest to these areas, a lot of violence happens there and the fight that happens the most in Colombia is because of land, so in short, this song is about a woman that's not afraid to die for the place she lives in, cause she has this connection with the nature that surrounds her
Nada was also used during some protests that happened here recently, they wanted to do a reform that would put more taxes on everything and would privatize healthcare completely, police were killing protestors a lot and this song was sung during a protest here and one of colombians in canada

4. Te Queria: in short, it's about these feelings of love, idk if it's exactly a couple, where she gave it her all, but was never reciprocated until the other person felt she was of use, until she had something that could be exploited and  there's a lot of emphasis on her feelings being past tense; like in the chorus you see:
"I was looking at you too (I dumped you, I dumped you)" as a way of explaining that she did have love for the person but she let go of those feelings long ago and doesnt want to be taken advantage of. Btw this was the first song of the album i fell in love with

5. No Pude: the absolute highlight here is the production, it's unlike anything in the rate and it's my favorite in this sense cause of that, even if it's the one that's the furthest from colombian folklore elements. as for the lyrics, it's a bit hard cause there's not much to go off of and the thing is that a lot of them are not gramatically correct, but my interpretation of it is the journey she goes through kind of apologizing for not giving out to someone until eventually she finds this strength in the first chorus realizing that she didn't have a chance to give more cause the other person never came back and realizing that she doesnt need the other person to accept or love her

6. Coming Thru: I kind of considered this an interlude, it's marks like the middle of the album in a certain sense, this has the most straightforward lyrics so there's not much to say besides the expression "Better get yourself very good batteries" is a Colombian saying that's usually like a "wake up call", if that makes sense, like "you better wake up or step it up" the batteries thing is like about powering up ffsjlksjf i hope that makes sense

7/8. Quiero Que Me Salves: the man that speaks in the interlude is part of the sexteto tabalá, which is the group on the track, he talks about the history of the sextet being formed and how this has been a tradition that's gone on for a while, the Eso Que Tu Haces video is dedicated to him
now the song itself, this is the one that probably gets the most lost in translation, the back and forth of her and the guys has two possible translations so when i did it i wasnt sure how to convey this but, for example, you have
"(Lido) I want to be healed, (Sexteto) my heart"
which is what i chose, however, it's a play on words that can be translated as: I want my heart to be healed, and so on with the lyrics
production wise, this was like an improvisation/jam session they did and this was the third take, the rough feeling is very much intended, and it has a lot of colombian folklore influence cause while this sexteto is not well known, they're a huge part of the culture in San Basilio de Palenque, which is in a colombian region that's often forgotten by the govt and the population is pretty much black and indigenous people dedicated to agriculture

9. Pelo Cucu: the lyrics to this are pretty sad, but also playful in the sense that she uses a lot of these syllables like lelele cucu etc, cause the song is about her childhood and instances where, boys she liked, and even her own mom, have implied that her hair is something bad that needs to be improved just cause it's curly and big, there is a lot of stigma about a black person's hair, and here too, so she's just remembering these instances

10. Resisto y Ya: this is the one most explicit about Colombia, it's about the disappearances that have happened by paramilitary groups that have connections with the government so they don't have a lot of consequence, there are constant little protests here that are silenced and in the big ones the people get killed, so saying "i resist and that's it" is a way of saying that we have here, like there's nothing else to do besides resisting and holding on until there hopefully is justice and all these things come back to haunt the people responsible for all the things that have happened

11. Para Transcribir (LUNA): this is the perfect callback moment, cause the intro was all about the things she felt before she could start her writing process, and this one reflects the feelings after it's been written, all the things and feelings that this experience brought up in her