The Prado Museum has spread the most exciting New Year’s greetings on social networks. This is a version of the Spain white shirt sung a cappella by Ana Belén in an idyllic setting, between Las Meninas by Goya and the royal portraits of Velázquez. Carlos Chaguaceda’s team, at full capacity. In that same room, the now historic photograph was taken of the leaders of the NATO countries two and a half years ago. Entering that semicircle does not leave anyone indifferent, nor has Ana Belén’s interpretation.
The Prado Museum celebrates the end of the year with Ana Belén
“Spain, white shirt of my hope / Dry history that burns us / Just by approaching it to look at it,” sings Ana Belén. The lyrics remember the transition, the harmony, the embrace, the progress. It was composed in the early eighties by Víctor Manuel in a Spain very different from today. Although maybe not so much.
The theme song immediately pivots and highlights the classic Piel de Toro division and fight. The club-blow Spain so present in digital accounts these days and that does not represent, in the slightest, social reality or, rather, flesh and blood reality. “Dove looking for more starry skies / Where to understand each other without destroying each other / Where to sit and talk.” The dystopian scenario, in short, that there are those who insist on highlighting daily, but that on a day-to-day basis is not real (this Christmas they are on their way to breaking all records in terms of spending, a milestone that in a country that was walking on the brink of the abyss would not be possible).
The Prado Museum wishes the best for 2025 with the song “Spain white shirt” performed by Ana Belén pic.twitter.com/FrxtWHMl97
— Prado Museum (@museodelprado) December 30, 2024
Spain is still in a certain sense the same country that captured a song that is almost half a year old. “Sometimes mother and always stepmother / Razor, mud, carnation, sword.” A territory where agreeing with those who are different in politics is news and where the most striking scenes occur. Today begins a year in which the Government has an uncertain judicial future ahead of it and we could see images that we would never imagine. At the same time, an exercise has been left behind in which, in its death throes, a judge has been heard acting as a part-time talk show host. Oh, if only Montesquieu would raise his head.
Although the TV is already somewhat threadbare, Spain, white shirt It also symbolizes hope. These are the aspirations of millions of young people facing 2025. The desire to look to the future with optimism. A future in which access to a decent home no longer depends on your inheritance or the generosity of your parents. The housing queues can take governments ahead, the unrest emerged in 2024 and could be amplified this year.
“You always make us in your image and likeness / The good and bad that is in your image / From a pilgrim to nowhere,” the song concludes. The stanza perfectly defines what happened after the horrible damage in Valencia. Where the best were the lines of volunteers, most of them young, lending a hand in a selfless way. The worst depends on who you ask.
2025 opens in which the desirable thing is for the political climate to calm down and for the good news to also be a cause for celebration. But they won’t read that in X; There are other interests there. Happy new year.
Source: www.lavanguardia.com
