Surely once, when you turn on the radio, that song comes on that reminds you of another person or a special moment. What surely does not fall is that this topic has turned 25 years old.

It is what happens with the theme “Belive” by Cher. From one drawer to another, a demo was going around that was destined to become a success, although at first no one believed in that song that asked if you believe in life after love, and that put autotune on the sound map.

With this theme was born what many called “the Cher effect”, a comeback success of one of the great divas and that to this day today it is still heard in more than one partybecause with the songs we appeal to the memory, to the nostalgia, to the life of a generation.

Also 25 years ago Madonna hit the right key on her return to the music scene with ‘Ray of Light’, the most danceable theme of that disk. And it is that those like that song have a metric that engages, remain in the memory, as Ander Pérez, music producer, explains to laSexta.

Ander Pérez, along with Amaia Martínez, is the author of another song that broke out in Eurovision in a May like this two decades ago: Beth’s ‘Dime’. A song whose success got out of hand, and it is that in addition to crossing borders it is still alive 20 years later.

But going back to 1998, we also find the debut of The Ear of Van Gogh and his album ‘Dile al sol’ which includes songs like ‘Cuéntame al oído’ or ‘Soñaré’.

At that time, ‘La copa de la vida’, by a Ricky Martin who provided the soundtrack to the World Cup in France, also triumphed.

“Ciega, sordomuda”, a song by Shakira, continues to play to this day; or the ‘Depends’ of Jarabe de Palo. And it’s when a song is released, you don’t know how successful it will be, “everything depends”, and only time will decide your success.