'Tocotó': Amaia Romero faces the pressure for immediacy by reinventing a Marisol hit

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After Nanai, Amaia continues in the line of interjections with the launch of Tocoto, an onomatopoeia that refers to the gallop of horses. And, as we can hear in this new single (the second from what will be her third album), the singer has reinvented Run, run little horseMarisol's success.

The Pamplona Here he reflects on the society of immediacy in which we live immersed and fights against it. A life that seems to overwhelm you and pass you by if you slow down for a second, since it currently moves at dizzying speed. Focusing on his role as an artist, it seems that If you are not constantly creating, you do not exist (neither for the fans, nor for the industry) nor do you succeed.; If you don't adapt to the wheel—which doesn't stop spinning—you will be left behind.

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Throughout the topic, the author of When nothing happens It goes from a feeling of worry about being late to everything to one of calm and serenity, because in the end everyone has their own rhythm. “Run, run, little horse. We're getting close and now that we're getting there, I see that this is no race,” goes one of its choruses. Amaia sends a strong message, especially in a profession in which new adventures and experiences are needed to inspire the songs they will compose in the future.

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Tocoto has come up with a vertical video clip where he infinite scroll What we do on social networks is the protagonist. Different users run on a treadmill on which the feed of Instagram or Twitter, two platforms that, like TikTok, sometimes engulf us and make us lose track of time and space. A criticism that could have come from the same Black Mirror and episodes like Nosedive, Fifteen Million Merits either Hated in the Nation.

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