The adaptation of “Muchachos tonight I get drunk well” for the World Cup in Qatar 2022, where the Argentine national team became world champion, does not stop giving satisfaction to the Ramallense band. With two nominations at the 2023 Gardel Awards, for best pop song and best song of the year, La Mosca is once again part of the national award and they told this medium exclusively that it was “surprising”.
“I was surprised when Santiago (Ruiz, the band’s manager) told us that we were nominated. But now I think that beyond quality, this song has a plus, which is what happened -that Argentina won the World Cup-, it’s something more emotional than technical. It’s everyone’s song“, highlighted Guillermo Novellis, leader of the Ramallo gang.
In this sense, he stressed that for this reason everyone would vote for the song, because of the representativeness it had for the Argentine public in terms of emotion and what it meant to get the third star after 36 years.
“It’s filled with impressive songs, what happens is that it has the plus of what happened: the World Cup, the players, the fans, the celebration in the street, ringing tirelessly, causing tears, joy. I think it will be an absolutely emotional rather than rational vote. If he wins it, it will be precisely for that reason and we all win it. That’s why they should have a big stage for 40 million guys“slipped Novellis, happy as a fan and singer of the song that represented Argentina in Qatar 2022.
The Ramallense band has a history in the stands and not only in those of Argentine soccer, even the single “Muchachos, now we are excited again” was covered by Fernando Romero, who is a fan of Racing and was inspired by the version of that song that he sings the academy fans. “It is based on the structure of what the people of Racing sang, but It adds brilliant phrases like the Malvinas kids, naming Don Diego and La Tota, talking about the lost finals, and it’s not an aggressive song.“, he acknowledged.
Novellis said that the link with Fernando Romero was generated by the press and then they contacted the writer of Muchachos to record the success that already received the Gold Record after exceeding 30 million views. “We agreed with Fernando, because the song was his authorship, and he went with great joy to sign SADAIC. He has more than us and he deserves it,” acknowledged the leader of La Mosca, at the same time that he stressed the importance of copyright in the cultural industry, since many times his work is something ethereal, which is why he felt that “he had to set an example”.
The song reached the entire Argentine public and the players themselves, who were the ones who sang it on the bus after beating Italy and consecrating themselves champions of La Finalissima at Wembley Stadium.
Lionel Messi, who is the one to whom the song refers, also sings it and with a lot of passion, and in that sense Guillermo Novellis said that he has the “theory that Leo liked it a lot”. “The song begins ‘I was born in Argentina, land of Diego and Lionel’ and he is the captain here on earth, the other is up there, and for the first time he is equal to the unattainable myth. This song brings him closer and closer for the first time he wins the World Cup and equalizes it (Maradona). I think he liked the song and that’s why he doesn’t want the lyrics to be changed.”Novellis noted.
And since it couldn’t be any other way, every time La Mosca plays live the audience euphorically waits for Muchachos to sing, now we were excited again: “In the middle of the show they start ‘cántá muchachos la p… que gave birth to it and when it starts to ring they go crazy, an incredible climate is created. It’s a mass, now I understand what Indio Solari must feel… a round trip wave is generated with the public, which we thought we always achieved, but never in this way with so much fervor, so much dedication”.
“When Muchachos starts playing, an incredible climate is created. It’s a mass, now I understand what Indio Solari must feel.”
The fly and the court
Converging two passions, music and soccer, can definitely feel a lot like touching the sky with your hands. For months La Mosca does not stop playing “Boys, now we are excited again”, but every time he does, he shows the same passion, the same as each of the fans.
With more than 25 years of experience, they were able to hear their successes in many stadiums, in Argentina and the world: “I went to the Real Madrid field and it sounded ‘I want to give you’; I was on the Deportivo La Coruña field, (Lionel) Scaloni was playing at that time and they came out champions, they also sang ‘I want to give you’; in the New Gasometer when San Lorenzo we went out champions of America, August 13, 2014, I was there and they sang ‘give him San Loré, we want’ the cup, the fans are crazy cyclone I want to see you champion'”recalled Novellis.
Team that reverses songs from La Mosca comes out champion?: “we bring luck – Novellis confessed – Scaloni played for Deportivo La Coruña, they sing the song, which he brings himself because he liked La Mosca, and he comes out champion; San Lorenzo sings ‘give him san loré, we want’ the cup’ and we went out champions of America; Racing sings Muchachos and comes out champion”, and now nothing more and nothing less than Argentina and a World Cup.
Fan of San Lorenzo, on August 13, 2014, when the hurricane lifted his first Libertadores de América, Novellis was on the field and while the fans sang “Dale San Lore”, which is a reversal of “Baila para mi”, He said that the fans pointed to him and made a gesture that his song was playing: “People looked at me as if I were (Néstor) Ortigoza”who scored the penalty goal that consecrated Cyclone for the slightest advantage against Nacional from Paraguay, recalled Novellis between laughs.
“It is inexplicable what it feels like, you have to feel it to know what it is”
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Novellis also revealed that his favorite song is “Todos tenemos un amor”, from the 2001 album Good Boys. “It’s a song written on tour in Spain, I love singing it because it says so many things. I was in love and on tour for many months and Being in love made life difficult for me”, she recalled and said that she expected his return like few others, every Monday at dawn and that is why she “loved” to sing it, in addition, she felt that she was singing it to the couple of all her classmates.
La Mosca announced that he is going to present a record of his 25 years, with his greatest hits remade, where they have the pleasure of playing with guest artists, whom they love and admire very much.
