let's talk about ... gerardo, "rico suave"

i mean, we all love reggaeton around here these days no?

Can't we burst our eardrums instead?

someone's been watching I Love The 90's!

the "Taco Grande" parody is maybe one of my favorite Weird Al Yankovic songs of all time, especially because of the video, which is just his version dubbed over the original video which makes it way funnier for some reason I can't quite understand.

Did the word "Spanglish" exist before this song?

those lyrics are missing the key words "rico" and "suave"

A local radio station in my suburban D.C. area held a contest (sponsored by Payday candy bars) where the high school that sent in the most postcards would win a free concert by Salt 'n' Pepa to be held in their gymnasium. My school won. Only later did we learn there would be 2 opening acts: Timmy T, whose ballad "One More Try" was burning up the charts at the time; and none other than Gerardo himself.

The day of the concert, my school's chapter of NOW (5 or 6 young women) protested Gerardo outside the show, saying the video for "Rico Suave" objectified women.

Timmy T came out and performed "One More Try," then another song, and then "One More Try" again.

Gerardo took the stage and launched right into the hit (like Timmy T, he took the unusual approach of opening with his hit single only to play it again within the next 10 minutues). Not 3 minutes into the performance did students start to pelt Gerardo and his 2 scantily clad backup dancers with the free mini-Payday bars they had passed out at the door. To his credit, he remained unphased.

Salt 'n' Pepa played next, though Pepa never showed, so Spinderella played the records and rapped her parts. If I recall correctly, the reason given was that Pepa was pregnant and couldn't perform.

Needless to say, definite "POX of concerts you've ever seen" material.

I'm normally not a huge fan of his, but Weird Al Yankovic's parody of this ("Taco Grande") made me laugh so damn hard I practically had a hernia.

gerardo got the sXe

I'm glad I'm not the only person to have seen him live. I saw him at Disneyland of all places. Tomorrowland used to have this stage and KISS FM used to have people perform there on certain nights. Anyway, all I remember is the song AND getting his autograph on my ticket.

I remember a girl in school asking me if I liked this song, and when I said no she said that was probably just because I didn't understand a lot of the lyrics. She then proceeded to translate. Good times. This school was just under half Mexican, so there was some palpable excitement among the younger girls in particular about hearing Spanish on pop radio.

She went through and translated the whole thing for me, and of course afterward I still didn't like the song that much, but she'd put in so much effort that I said ahh, I understand now, I was only experiencing half of the genius that is Gerardo, you've shown me the way, perhaps I will purchase the cassingle.

Pinky! Suavo!

*sigh* I miss Pinky and the Brain.

it's pretty good.

omg nabisco you are putting a serious hurting on me today

It's amazing the music industry powerhouse that Interscope became despite its first three releases being Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Marky Mark and this.

I always like that song. I'm not sure why so many people hate it. Of course, I don't think I've heard it in a decade.

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My Name is Not Rico

Gerardo's in effect with a bilingual single
Working up a sweat as he makes the girls tingle
Sexing up the mic hand on crotch with an attitude
Scoping out the ones that are bound to get nude

Listo y preparado para cualquier ocasion
Con una caja de proteccion para mi unica adiccion
Potente como siempre con los chones calientes
Una por una caen todas inconcientes

You thought I would mature maybe on the next album
The G-MAN bares his chest as he flashes his Calvins
Lyrics in the mix on the verge of rating X
Feminists on my back when all they want from me is sex

Soltero, sin problemas, mas astuto que los demas
Con mujeres diferentes para inspirar mis nuevos temas
Casanova quedo corto a mi lado
Nadie se imagina cuantas hembras he conquistado

CHORUS:

Yo Rico! My name is not Rico
Yo Rico! My name is not Rico

Back by popular demand the suave operator's at it again
Pen in hand with new material for the critics to slam
Ain't nothing soft about my lyrics so slam me
Your daughters jock so you can't stand me

Una vez mas al compas, con el microfono en mi mano
En Ingles o en Castellano, hermanos hispanos no hablo en vano
El poeta de los noventa no ha cambiado
Me sigo levantando con dos hembras a mi lado

I ain't changing my image this one's sure to go platinum
The music business hasn't heard the last of this Latin man
Been on a roll since my first cut went gold
Now it's hard to get a hold of G-E-R-A-R-D-O

Que les parece? Mi fama crece y crece
Dicen que soy creido, un bandido . . . bueno, a veces
Mami dice que soy un buen chico
Pero mira como cambio cuando alguien me llama Rico

REPEAT CHORUS

You see I met a potential stand
She had a nice backyard and was approved by the G-MAN band
So I told myself what the heck
Told her to wait backstage that I'd meet her after the set

Terminado la funcion entre aplausos, rosas
Calzones y otras cosas
A escondidas caminaba
Encontre a mi nena y la lleve donde el limo me esperaba

We started getting busy so I pulled out my bib
I'm the sushi connoisseur so you know just what I did
She was huffing and puffing like the big bad wolf
The fogged up windows on the limo were proof

Todo andaba bien pues la tenia bien hot
So I reached in my pocket for the jimmies that my mom had bought
En eso nena pego tremendo grito
And instead of yelling out my name she said
"Do me Rico?"

all of a sudden i feel so bad for that kid in my grade school named Richard Sauve. El Cholo Diet, that is such a great tale!

Jesus. Why is Gerardo's left pierced nipple so much larger than his right one in that picture that Eisbar linked to? Is it the piercing?

It should be noted that Gerardo was a succesful multi-hyphenate; he had speaking parts in both "Colors" and "Can't Buy Me Love."

Y'know, normally when this kind of thread comes up I'm all "this wasn't half as it's been made out to be, and certainly doesn't deserve the revisionist worst-whatever-ever-isms that it's getting", but goddammit, this song sucked then & it sucks now.

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The Gerardo Gallery...of DOOM! hehe

-- Eisbär (llamasfu...), May 9th, 2005.

haha omg that's the stupidest thing I've ever seen