During the last week of October and first week of November, new releases such as ‘Berghain’ by Rosalía or ‘Superstar’ of the fatherbut there has also been a song from two decades ago that has placed among the 50 most listened to in Spotifya fact that has surprised.
The song we are talking about is ‘Little Sailor Soldier’, which was in el top 50 en Spotify and which has revived its success, although it has remained among the classics of pop rock in Spanish on the platform, being the most listened to of the 2000s in Spain by accumulating more than 212 million listens and also the most popular of Fit. A revitalization of this single that also coincides with the release of new material by the musical group with the album ‘El monte de los auludos’.
The story behind ‘Soldadito sailor’, the most famous song by Fito and Fitipaldis
It was in 2003 when the song ‘Soldadito sailor’ was published as a single from the album ‘Lo más Further, a tu lado’, the group’s third. Fitand as a ballad in which its author, Fito Cabrales, and leader of the band, did not have so many hopes, or at least it greatly exceeded expectations.
The topic arose from the idea I had Fito Cabrales to create a fictional story and a character to whom things happen, and that ideal moment came when he was at his father’s house and looked out the window. This is how a man appeared in his sight who “looked like he had been around the world six times,” the singer said in an interview with Heavy Rock magazine.
“One day I noticed an older person and it prompted me to tell the story of a guy I don’t know,” just as Fito imagined that this man was a sailor and that he had a girlfriend who was a “mermaid” and “one of those who say I love you if they see your wallet full,” a phrase that has been questioned for machismo in recent years.
The “simplified” composition that gave the perfect combo
In any case, with this basic premise, what is one of the most beloved and popular slow songs in Spanish music of the 2000s was created, which also maintained that simple story in its slow, melancholic and simplified essence, something that was caused on purpose by the performer.
And Fito recognized that his intention when composing it was for the song to be “a simplified song”, not an easy task, because as he himself admitted in interviews of the time: “it can give rise to having rises in the chorus.” But he maintained that certain calm and pause that emphasized the melancholy of the fictional story he told.
Thus, this became a perfect combo that has made ‘Soldadito Marinero’ already a success that has survived time already several generations, who have also known it through the multiple versions of artists such as Manuel Carrasco, Camilo o Cali and El Dandee.
