Thursday, December 27, 2007

Wrestling birthed the video star

One of Kerstin's treats from Mexico was a CD/DVD combination that compiles some of the top Latin hits of the year. We have been watching the videos during the past several days, since our return from Guanajuato.
The music video for "Me Muero," a 2006 single by La 5a Estación, is one of my favorites.
"Me Muero" topped the Mexican charts for 11 weeks after its release.
In the video, La 5a
Estación lead singer Natalia Jiménez is shown cutting and pasting clippings and photos of LUCHA LIBRE star Místico into a scrapbook.
"Me Muero" translates to "I Die," but the video spends more time with the Lucha Libre than anything else, which is cool in a kitschy way.
Lucha Libre is unbelievably HUGE in Mexico, as we learned when we first arrived in Guanajuato. Posters promoting an upcoming series of matches at GTO.'s Parque de Béisbol were up ALL OVER town. I snagged one of the posters the day we left. The poster is marvelously campy.
In the "Me Muero" video, we see Místico ruminating on the aforementioned scrapbook while his opponent smashes a watermelon that has a white mask painted on it. Does this bode ill for our hero Místico? It looks that way for much of the match, which finds Místico on his back with defeat imminent.
I don't want to give away the surprise (?) ending, so you should really see the "Me Muero" video for yourself. Check YouTube, here.