“ will always be the minority but having Frank Black stay in the island is a very good compliment,” Zayas says enthusiastically. “To have one of the most important bands in rock, who has never actually played the island, with just one member having lived here, with just that fact, that’s amazing,” says Cristian Zayas, guitarist/songwriter of Puerto Rican band Las Abejas. It’s very rare for Puerto Rico to be referenced at all in rock. For local fans, hearing Black sing using our slang and reference cultural aspects that the average non-Puerto Rican listener could easily miss instills pride. He mentions kissing and “chingando” (slang for “fucking”) Surfer Rosa, meaning that the fictional character the iconic album is named after is meant to be an islander.īlack continued to delve into his experience in Puerto Rico with Doolittle’s “Crackity Jones,” which fans recognize as one of Black’s most autobiographical songs, about having to share a dorm with a psychotic roommate, José Jones, who believed he was friends with Fred Flintstone (referred to in the song as “Paco Picopiedra”) and made Black fear for his safety. The island is referenced further in Surfer Rosa, reprising “Vamos” and singing about swimming in the Caribbean ocean in “Where Is My Mind?” Then there’s “Oh My Golly!” Akin to “Vamos,” it’s peppered with references to Puerto Rico in broken Spanish, where Black sings about visiting Piñones, a beach town popular with tourists. He pays homage to his temporary home in Come On Pilgrim’s “Isla De Encanta,” butchering the island’s nickname “isla del encanto” (“island of enchantment”), and “Vamos.” In the latter, Black adopts Puerto Rican slang, using “chévere” (meaning “nice” or “cool”) and “puñeta,” an exclamatory curse word that is often used similarly to “fuck!”, while shifting from broken Spanish to English.
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