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Albuquerque de Weird Al Yankovic

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10 de diciembre de 2011

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"Albuquerque" es una pieza emblemática de Weird Al Yankovic, lanzada en su álbum "Bad Hair Day" de 1996. La canción es un ejemplo perfecto del estilo único de Yankovic, que combina humor absurdo con un relato musical en el que cada línea ha sido cuidadosamente diseñada para provocar tanto risas como reflexiones críticas.

La letra de "Albuquerque" narra la historia de un niño que vive situaciones surrealistas marcadas por la incomodidad y lo grotesco. Desde el comienzo, se establece un ambiente peculiar donde el protagonista recuerda su crianza en un sótano bajo la mirada despreocupada de su madre, quien le forzaba a comer chucrut todas las mañanas. Esta situación sirve como metáfora para explorar temas como la lucha contra las expectativas familiares y la búsqueda del propio camino.

A medida que avanza la narración, el protagonista sueña con escapar a Albuquerque, un lugar idealizado lleno de absurdos y placeres sencillos, como toallas suaves y aire aromatizado con cerveza de raíz. Sin embargo, los relatos empiezan a tornarse cada vez más extraños cuando se introduce una serie de eventos bizarros que incluyen una catástrofe aérea absurda -que culmina en una explosión-, hasta encuentros surrealistas con personajes igualmente excéntricos. Este uso del absurdo permite a Yankovic desdibujar los límites entre la realidad y la fantasía, lo cual resulta hilarante pero también provocativo al cuestionar vidas llenas de expectativas inalcanzables.

El tono irónico presente en "Albuquerque" se manifiesta no solo en las situaciones ridículas a las que se enfrenta el protagonista sino también en su filosofía sobre desastres y desamores. El hecho de perder a su amor verdadero por algo trivial como un club discográfico refleja cómo las decisiones cotidianas pueden tener repercusiones inesperadas e incluso cómicas. A través del desenlace, donde uno podría esperar una resolución romántica o dramática, simplemente termina afirmando que odia el chucrut; esto resalta lo absurdo del deseo humano y nos invita a cuestionarnos qué tan serios debiéramos tomarnos algunos aspectos de nuestras vidas.

La reacción crítica hacia esta canción ha sido generalmente positiva; muchos destacan su ingenio lírico y habilidad para construir historias complejas dentro del marco humorístico. La amplitud del contenido presentado ha permitido su inclusión en múltiples plataformas culturales desde entonces, reafirmando el estatus icónico de Weird Al como parodista maestro.

Un dato interesante sobre "Albuquerque" es cómo presenta repetidamente situaciones extremas sin perder el hilo narrativo; este formato libre otorga a Yankovic una libertad creativa única que le permite experimentar con ritmos e idiosincrasias sonoras mientras los oyentes siguen rindiendo homenaje a sus ocurrencias más descabelladas al ritmo pegajoso.

En resumen, "Albuquerque" no es solo otra canción graciosa: es una exploración metafórica sobre sueños perdidos y esperanzas insatisfechas envuelta en un empaque sonoro inesperado y divertido. Al final del día, nos deja con esa sencilla pero impactante verdad: ante las absurdidades inevitables de la vida moderna, cualquier salida hacia mundos soñados puede ser más bien humorística que heroica. Aunque parezca casual al principio, este relato condensa recovecos emocionales profundos reflexionando sobre nuestra propia vida cotidiana repleta también de anhelos e ironías.

Interpretación del significado de la letra realizada con IA.

Way back when i was just a little bitty boy living in a box under the
stairs in the corner of the basement of the house half a block down the
street from jerry's bait you know the well anyway,
back then life was going swell and everything was juuuuust
except of course for the undeniable fact that every single morning my
mother would make me a big ol' bowl of sauerkraut for breakfast.
dawww!! big bowl of sauerkraut!
every single mornin'! it was driving me crazy.
I said to my mom, i said, "hey, mom, what's up with all the sauerkraut?"
and my dear, sweet mother, she just looked at me like a cow looks at an
oncoming train. and she leaned right down next to me, and she said, "it's
good for you!" and then she tied me to the wall and stuck a funnel in my
mouth and force fed me nothing but sauerkraut until i was 26 and a half
years old.
That's when i swore that someday, someday i would get outta that
basement and travel to a magical, far away place, where the sun is
always shining and the air smells like warm root beer, and the towels
are oh so fluffy! where the shriners and the lepers play their ukuleles
all day long, and anyone on the street will gladly shave your back for
a nickel!
Wacka wacka, doo doo, yeah!
Well, let me tell you, people, it wasn't long at all before my dream
came true. because the very next day, a local radio station had this
contest to see who could correctly guess the number of molecules in
leonard nimoy's butt. i was off by three, but i still won the grand
prize. that's right, a first class, one-way
To albuquerque!
albuquerque!
Oh yeah. you know, i'd never been on a real airplane before, and i gotta
tell ya, it was really except that i had to sit between two large
albanian women with excruciatingly severe body odor. and the little kid in
back of me kept throwin' up the whole time. the flight attendants ran out of
dr. pepper and salted peanuts, and the in-flight movie was bio-dome with
pauly , oh yeah, three of the airplane engines burned out, and we
went into a tailspin and crashed into a hillside and the plane exploded in a
giant fireball and everybody died. except for me. you know why?
'cause i had my tray table up
and my seat back in the full upright position
had my tray table up
and my seat back in the full upright position
had my tray table up
and my seat back in the full upright position
Ah-ha-ha-ha. ah-ha-ha. aahhh. so i crawled from the twisted, burnin'
wreckage, i crawled on my hands and knees for three full days, draggin'
along my big leather suitcase and my garment bag and my tenor saxophone
and my 12-pound bowlin' ball and my lucky, lucky autographed
glow-in-the-dark snorkel. but finally i arrived at the world famous
albuquerque holiday inn where the towels are oh so fluffy! and you can
eat your soup right out of the ashtrays if you wanna. it's ok, they're
clean.
Well, i checked into my room, and i turned down the a/c, and i turned
on the spectravision, and i'm just about to eat that little chocolate
mint on my pillow that i love so very, very much, when suddenly there's
a knock on the door. well, now, who could that be?
I say, "who is it?" no answer.
"who is it?" there's no answer.
"who is it!?" they're not sayin' anything.
so finally, i go over and i open the door, and just as i suspected,
it's some big, fat hermaphrodite with a flock of seagulls, haircut, and
only one nostril. oh, man, i hate it when i'm right.
So, anyway, he bursts into my room, and he grabs my lucky snorkel, and
i'm like, "hey, you can't have that! that snorkel's been just like a
snorkel to ;
And he's like, "tough!"
and i'm like, "give it!"
and he's like, "make me!"
and i'm like, "'kay!"
so i grabbed his leg and he grabbed my esophagus, and i bit off his ear
and he chewed off my eyebrows, and i took out his appendix and he gave
a colonic irrigation, yes indeed, you better believe it. and somehow in
the middle of it all, the phone got knocked off the hook. and twenty
seconds later, i heard a familiar voice. and you know what it said?
i'll tell ya what it said!
It said, "if you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again.
if you need help, hang up and then dial your operator.
if you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again.
if you need help, hang up and then dial your ;
In albuquerque!
albuquerque!
Well, to cut a long story short, he got away with my snorkel. but i
made a solemn vow right then and there that i would not rest, i would
not sleep for an instant, until the one-nostrilled man was brought to
justice.
But first, i decided to buy some donuts. so i got in my car, and i
drove over to the donut shop, and i walked on up to the guy behind the
counter and he says, "yeah, whaddaya want??"
I said, "you got any glazed donuts?"
he said, "nah, we're outta glazed ;
i say, "well, you got any jelly donuts?"
he said, "no, we're outta jelly ;
i said, "you got any bavarian cream-filled donuts?"
he said, "no, we're outta bavarian cream-filled ;
i said, "you got any cinnamon rolls?"
he said, "no, we're outta cinnamon rolls!"
i said, "you got any apple fritters?"
he said, "no, we're outta apple fritters!"
i said, "you got any bear claws?"
he said, "wait a minute, i'll go ;
"no, we're outta bear claws!"
i said, "well, in that in that case, what do you have?"
he says, "all i got right now is this box of one dozen starving crazed ;
i said, "ok, i'll take ;
so he hands me the box, and i open up the lid, and the weasels jump out
and they immediately latch onto my face and start bitin' me all over.
oh, man, they were just goin' nuts! they were tearin' me apart! you
know, i think it was just about that time that a little ditty started
goin' through my head. i believe it went a little somethin' like this:
Doh! get 'em off me! get 'em off me! ohhh! no, get 'em off, get 'em
off! oh, oh god, oh god! oh, get 'em off me! oh, oh god! ah,
aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhohhhhhhhhhh!
I ran out into the street with these flesh-eating weasels all over my
face, wavin' my arms all around and just runnin', runnin', runnin' like
a constipated wiener dog. and as luck would have it, that's exactly
when i ran into the girl of my dreams. her name was zelda. she was a
caligraphy enthusiast, with a slight overbite, and hair the color of
strained peaches. i'll never forget the very first thing she said to
me. she said, "hey, you've got weasels on your ;
That's when i knew it was true love. we were inseparable after that.
aw, we ate together, we bathed together, we even shared the same piece
of mint-flavored dental floss. the world was our burrito. so we got
married, and we bought us a house and had two beautiful children,
nathaniel and superfly. oh we were so very, very, very happy, oh yeah.
but then, one fateful night, zelda said to me, she said, "sweetie
pumpkin? do you wanna join the columbia record club?" i said, "woah!
hold on now, baby! i'm just not ready for that kind of a commitment!"
So we broke up, and i never saw her again
but that's just the way things go
In albuquerque!
albuquerque!
Anyway, things really started lookin' up for me, because about a week
later, i finally achieved my lifelong dream. that's right, i got me a
part-time job at the sizzler! i even made employee of the month after i
put out that grease fire with my face. aw yeah, everybody was pretty
jealous of me after that. i was gettin' a lot of attitude.
Ok, like one time, i was out in the parkin' lot, tryin' to remove my excess
earwax with a golf pencil, when i see this guy marty
tryin' to carry a big ol' sofa up the stairs all by himself. so i-i say to
him, i say, "hey, you want me to help you with that?" and
marty, he just rolls his eyes and goes, "no, i want you
to cut off my arms and legs with a chainsaw!" so i did.
And then he gets all indignant on me. he's like, "hey, man, i was just
being sarcastic!" well, that's just great. how was i supposed to know
that? i'm not a mind reader, for cryin' out loud. besides, now he's got
a really cute nickname - torso-boy! so what's he complaining about?
Say, that reminds me of another amusing anecdote. this guy comes up to
me on the street and he tells me he hasn't had a bite in three days.
well, i knew what he meant, but just to be funny, i took a big bite out
of his jugular vein. and he's yelling and screaming and bleeding all
over, and i'm like, "hey, come on, don'tcha get it?" but he just keeps
rolling around on the sidewalk, bleeding and screaming, "aaaahhhh!
aaaaahhhhohhhhh! aaaaahhhh!" you know, completely missing the irony of
the whole situation. man, some people just can't take a joke, you know?
Anyway, was i? kinda lost my train of thought.
Uh, well, uh, ok, anyway, i-i know it's kind of a roundabout way of
saying it, but, i guess the whole point i'm tryin' to make here
i hate sauerkraut!
That's all i'm really tryin' to say. and, by the way,
if one day you happen to wake up and find yourself in an existential
quandry, full of loathing and self-doubt and wracked with the pain and
isolation of your pitiful meaningless existence, at least you can take
a small bit of comfort in knowing that somewhere out there in this
crazy ol' mixed-up universe of ours, there's still a little place
Called albuquerque!
albuquerque!
albuquerque! (albuquerque!)
albuquerque! (albuquerque!)
albuquerque! (albuquerque!)
albuquerque! (albuquerque!)
I said a! (a!)
l! (l!)
b! (b!)
u! (u!)
.... querque! (querque!)
(albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque)
(albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque)
(albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque)
(albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque, albuquerque)
!
*burp*
heh heh heh heh

Letra traducida a Español

Hace mucho tiempo, cuando era solo un niño pequeño que vivía en una caja bajo las
escaleras en la esquina del sótano de una casa a media manzana de la
tienda de cebos de Jerry, ya sabes, la buena. Bueno, en aquel entonces
la vida iba bien y todo estaba genial, excepto por el innegable hecho de que cada mañana mi
madre me preparaba un gran cuenco de chucrut para desayunar.
¡Dawww! ¡Un gran cuenco de chucrut!
¡Cada maldita mañana! ¡Me volvía loco!
Le dije a mi madre: "Oye, mamá, qué pasa con todo el chucrut?"
Y mi querida madre solo me miró como una vaca mira a un tren en marcha. Se agachó junto a mí y me dijo: "¡Es bueno para ti!" Y luego me ató a la pared y me metió un embudo en la boca y me obligó a comer solo chucrut hasta que cumplí 26 años y medio.
Fue entonces cuando prometí que algún día, algún día saldría de ese sótano y viajaría a un lugar mágico y lejano, donde el sol siempre brilla y el aire huele a cerveza de raíz caliente, ¡y las toallas son tan suaves! Donde los shriners y los leprosos tocan sus ukuleles todo el día, ¡y cualquiera en la calle estaría encantado de rasurarte la espalda por un céntimo!
Wacka wacka, doo doo, ¡sí!
Bueno, déjenme decirles que no pasó mucho tiempo antes de que mi sueño se hiciera realidad. Porque al día siguiente, una emisora local tenía un concurso para ver quién podía adivinar correctamente el número de moléculas en el trasero de Leonard Nimoy. Yo fallé por tres, pero aún así gané el gran premio. Así es: ¡un billete de ida en primera clase a Albuquerque!
¡Albuquerque!
Oh sí. Sabes, nunca había estado en un avión real antes y tengo que decirte que fue genial... excepto porque tuve que sentarme entre dos mujeres albanesas grandes con un olor corporal insoportable. Y el niño detrás de mí no paraba de vomitar todo el tiempo. Las azafatas se quedaron sin Dr Pepper ni cacahuetes salados, y la película del vuelo era Bio-Dome con Pauly Shore; oh sí… tres motores del avión se apagaron y entramos en picado estrellándonos contra una ladera; el avión explotó en una gigantesca bola de fuego y todos murieron… menos yo. Sabes por qué?
Porque tenía la bandeja arriba
y mi asiento reclinado en posición vertical completa.
Tenía la bandeja arriba
y mi asiento reclinado en posición vertical completa.
Tenía la bandeja arriba
y mi asiento reclinado en posición vertical completa.
Ah-ha-ha-ha. ah-ha-ha. aahhh. Así que arrastré mis muebles del retorcido e incendiado
desastre durante tres días completos; arrastrando conmigo mi gran maleta de cuero,
mi bolsa para prendas,
mi saxofón tenor,
mi bola de boliche de 12 libras—
y mi afortunada máscara snorkel autografiada que brilla en la oscuridad . Sin embargo finalmente llegué al famoso Holiday Inn
de Albuquerque donde las toallas son tan suaves...Y puedes comer tu sopa directamente desde los ceniceros si quieres . Está bien , están limpios .
Bien , hice check-in , bajé el aire acondicionado , encendí la televisión mientras estoy apunto
de comer esa chocolatina menta sobre mi almohada ,que tanto amo cuando,de repente hay
un golpe suave sobre puerta..bueno ,quién podría ser ?
Digo : " Quién es ?"No hay respuesta.
"Quién es ?"No hay respuesta.
"Quién es!? ”No dicen nadaEntonces finalmente voy y abro la puerta,donde justo como sospechaba,se aparece pues desde afuera...el gordo hermafrodita pelucón sólo tiene una fosa nasal .¡Ay Dios!, odio tener razón.Así que entró como Pedro por su casa robándome snorkel afortunado yo le dije:“Oye ! “no puedes llevar eso: esa snorke es importante para mí

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