When February 14th arrives, there is no better gift than tell the person you love ‘I love you’. Once or as many times as necessary. Up to 17 times, David Summers pronounces ‘I love you’ in one of the first hymns of the Men G. Her muse was “a girlfriend” who had a hard time saying those important ‘two words’. Also ‘Sufre mamón’ arose from another girlfriend, one who left him and went with a posh boy. The story of ‘Venezia’ begins like this: “I had an Italian girlfriend…”
All the songs David Summers has written “They have a very personal story,” the singer confessed on the Mexican CafeClub TV. And he added “They have been specific messages for a specific person”. In fact, his girlfriends were very present in those Hombres G’s first ‘hits’. He himself, as he told it. It is the case of ‘I love you’, the ballad that the group included in their second album, ‘You screwed up… Burt Lancaster’ (1986), the best-selling in the group’s history.
“I had a girlfriend…”. Summers thus begins the “peculiar story” of ‘I love you’. And continues… “who never said ‘I love you’”. David reproached her and she responded: “’It’s just that you you say ‘I love you’ like the one who says ‘good morning’ and ‘I love you’ are very important words’. So I said, ‘Well, when you love someone you have to say it constantlyevery day, many times if necessary, It doesn’t take away the value of saying ‘I love you’. So, I made this song that says so many times ‘I love you’, ‘I love you’, ‘I love you’, because I I wanted to insist to her with that idea.”
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‘I love you’ is one of the essential songs at Hombres G concerts. Over the years, David’s songwriting has been reinterpreted on several occasions curiously by Mexican groups or artists. In 2003, Volovanthe band from Monterrey, did a “very good” version, according to its author, for the tribute album ‘I’m going to have a good time (A tribute to Hombres G). Sonia Díaz also made a mariachi cover and in 2024, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their self-titled debut album (‘Hombres G’, 1985), the Madrid quartet has reinvented his anthemand he has done it with a Mexican guest, Carin León.
“I had a girlfriend…”. This is also how Summers begins to explain how it came about. ‘Give me back my girl’ (Suffer mamón), included in their first LP from 1985. He told Pablo Carbonell about it on the group’s Tik Tok: “I had a girlfriend… and He left me for a posh kid who had a Ford Fiesta white and a yellow sweater. He singer of Toreros Muertos couldn’t believe, “It’s true?”. “I swear to God”, David assured. And he continued saying: “We were playing at Rockola and I knew he was going to come. They told me ‘she’s coming with her boyfriend.’ So, a few days before, I swear, three or four days before I got home and I wrote the song just to tease them. Those were my motivations for making songs in those years. She was on stage singing the song and I saw the two of them down there. And the bastard…”
‘Suffer mamón’ is a story “totally personal to me… of revenge and revengeand yet everyone had had a similar situation already everyone his girlfriend had left him for another and he felt like a protagonist,” declared the vocalist of Hombres G in Infolibre. In the book ‘We have never been the handsome ones in the neighborhood’ he remembers: “We were kids, I was sixteen and she was fifteen.. It was the first time I fell in love”. Her name was ‘Macu’.
“I had a girlfriend…”. The story of ‘Venezia’ It has the same prelude. The song was recorded in 1983 and was published hidden on Side B of the group’s first single (Miracle in the Congo). It later appeared on the group’s debut LP. ”“In 1982 I had an Italian girlfriend,” David explained in FFD Magazine: “At that time, all the summer hits were Italian songs and there was a group called Matia Bazar who sang a super famous and catchy song called ‘Mamma Maria’. Then I thought make an Italian song that would be the Spanish hit of that summer. But all very funnyIn a parody style, of course, imagine, I was 18 when I wrote it.. In fact, the lyrics say so many atrocities that we couldn’t publish the song in Italy because it couldn’t be played on the radio and not precisely because of the swear words, but because he was talking about the mafia. “They vetoed the song.”
No. ‘Marta has a pacemakeroriginally recorded in 1983, He has no relationship with any girlfriend. However, “people told me What if it was because of my girlfriend whose name was that?but had nothing to do with. The song comes before her,” he clarified in El Universal. David Summers was referring to Marta Madrugawhom he met in 1987 and to whom he was married for 25 years. “I have written many songs for her.. I really like to invent things. But more, write about what is happening because it gives them a certain truth that makes them something important”.
