From Rocío Jurado to Sabina or Paquita la del Barrio: the other artists who ‘thrashed’ their exes before Shakira

Although the new theme of Shakira has generated a lot of commotion due to the multiple darts he contains against his ex-partnerGerard Piqué, his ‘Session #53’ together with Bizarrap it is not the first (nor, probably the last) spite song who has known the history of music in Spanish.

Here we review some of the most emblematic -and brutal- themes that artists of the stature of Rocío Jurado, Joaquín Sabina or José Luis Perales have dedicated to their ex-partners over the years:

‘Two-legged rat’ – Paquita la del Barrio

The Mexican artist Francisca Viveros Barradas, better known as Paquita la del Barrio, dedicated the devastating ‘Rata de dos patas’ to her ex-husband, who cheated on her for years, a song in which she dedicated such brutal qualifiers as “filthy rat”, “scum of life” or “badly made eyesore”among many other and very varied beauties.

‘That man’ – Rocío Jurado

Manuel Alejandro composed another memorable song about spite for Rocío Jurado, also full of adjectives. To write it, as he would confess years later, the composer was inspired by the folk singer’s first husband. In ‘Ese Hombre’, ‘La Más Grande’, he portrayed her ex as “a big fool, a conceited stupidselfish and capricious, a vain, unconscious and conceited clown…”.

’19 days and 500 nights’ – Joaquín Sabina

If a spiteful Joaquín Sabina he avenged the abandonment of a woman in his emblematic ’19 days and 500 nights’, the version of the other party would be given years later by Travis Birds in his reply ’19 days and 500 nights later’.

‘And how is he?’ – Jose Luis Perales

More pitiful is the tone of ‘And how is he?’, a song that José Luis Perales based on the story of heartbreak that they starred in Isabel Preysler and Julio Iglesias. Perales was inspired by her breakup to write this topic for her, although he did not finally give it to her.

‘Forget me and Turn Around’ – Pimpinela

In 1982 we learned to slam a love door with ‘Forget me and turn around’, by Pimpinela, in which a woman urges his repentant ex to leave and forget even his namehis face and his house.

‘Go away’ – The Amayas

Los Amaya, for their part, said it clearly in their 1977 song ‘Go away‘: “Go away! You’ve hurt me, go away! You’re empty, go away! Away from here”

‘It’s Over’ – Maria Jimenez

María Jiménez was also emphatic in her ‘It’s over’ in 1978, in which she put an end to it: “Don’t come at me with nonsense, or ask me to help you, when I needed you, I never had you… “.

Listen again to the best songs of spite

Can you remember all these great songs of revenge and heartbreak in this playlist: