"Channelizing Paradise" can be purchased at Amoeba Records in Hollywood, at Sea Level Records in Echo Park, and online through Aquarius Records. "Channelizing Paradise" is also available to download through the iTunes music store, as well as eMusic, Napster, and most other digital providers. For people living in places where the iTunes music store isn't offered (Mexico and South America), eMusic is the best way to download the album. To download through iTunes click here. To download through eMusic click here (recommended for those in Mexico and South America). To download through Napster click here.
Press:
The Fader: "Less 'rock band' than all-out 'experience,' a thoroughly modern hybrid that defies easy categorization."
LA Weekly: "A theatrically vibrant blur of thrash-mariachi, psychedlic distortion, histrionic vocals, performance art, punk rock, surrealism, Mexican telenovelas and five-dollar-store fasions."
ARTFORUM: "Globe-trotting emissaries of trash in translation, a refreshing brand of cross-cultural misprision... Talk about a surprise vantage on the touchy elisions of imperialist modernism!"
Fluxblog: "This is technically an ESG cover, but there's got to be a better word for what Los Super Elegantes do with this song. The basic elements that make "Dance" one of the best dance songs ever written remain intact, but the band adds new verses and hooks that actually build on the greatness of the original. It's rather like buying a buying a beautiful old house and renovating it so that everything you add to the structure only enhances the aesthetic charm of the design."
Gorilla Vs. Bear: "The band, whose name loosely translates to 'The Super Elegantes,' is unclassifiable in its greatness. Each song seems to dabble in about 3 different genres and multiple languages, and yet it somehow comes together perfectly.
Panadero
Los Super Elegantes Lyrics
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Mira allá que viene, es el panadero,
Tiene los pantalones muy apretados.
Panadero de mi amor
Panadero... de mi vida.
Su pan es alimento y tambien tormento.
Panadero de mi amor
Panadero... de mi vida.
Calienta, calienta, calienta el horno
Baja, bajate los pantalones,
Calienta, calienta, calienta el horno
Baja, bajate los pantalones.
Mira allá que viene, es el panadero,
Tiene los pantalones muy apretados.
Panadero de mi amor
Panadero... de mi vida.
Amasa que amasa la masa ese panadero
Su pan es alimento y tambien tormento.
Panadero de mi amor
Panadero... de mi vida.
Calienta, calienta, calienta el horno
Baja, bajate los pantalones,
Calienta, calienta, calienta el horno
Baja, bajate los pantalones.
Mira allá que viene, es el panadero,
Tiene los pantalones muy apretados.
Panadero de mi amor
Panadero... de mi vida.
Amasa que amasa la masa ese panadero
Su pan es alimento y tambien tormento.
Panadero de mi amor
Panadero... de mi vida.
Calienta, calienta, calienta el horno
Baja, bajate los pantalones,
Calienta, calienta, calienta el horno
Baja, bajate los pantalones,
Calienta, calienta, calienta el horno
Baja, bajate los pantalones.
The song "Panadero" by Los Super Elegantes is a playful and flirtatious ode to a baker. The singer spots the baker coming down the street with his tight pants, and immediately declares him the "baker of my love" and the "baker of my life." The lyrics describe the baker kneading and working his dough, creating bread that provides sustenance as well as torment because it is so tempting. The chorus encourages the baker to keep heating his oven and to take off his pants -- presumably not to bake the bread, but to show off how tight they are.
While the song may seem like a simple ode to a baker, there are some interesting layers that underlie the lyrics. For example, the song plays with the idea of physical desire and hunger, drawing parallels between wanting to eat bread and wanting to be intimate with someone. Additionally, the repeated phrase "panadero de mi amor" can be read as a subversion of traditional gender roles -- with the singer taking on a more active role in pursuing the object of their affection, rather than waiting for the man to make the first move.
Overall, "Panadero" is a fun and catchy song that celebrates both the sensual pleasures of bread and the joys of flirtation and desire.
Line by Line Meaning
Mira allá que viene, es el panadero,
Look over there, here comes the baker,
Tiene los pantalones muy apretados.
He's wearing very tight pants.
Panadero de mi amor
Baker of my love
Panadero... de mi vida.
Baker... of my life.
Amasa que amasa la masa ese panadero
He kneads and kneads the dough, that baker
Su pan es alimento y tambien tormento.
His bread is both sustenance and torment.
Calienta, calienta, calienta el horno
Heat, heat, heat up the oven
Baja, bajate los pantalones,
Lower, lower your pants,
Mira allá que viene, es el panadero,
Look over there, here comes the baker,
Tiene los pantalones muy apretados.
He's wearing very tight pants.
Panadero de mi amor
Baker of my love
Panadero... de mi vida.
Baker... of my life.
Amasa que amasa la masa ese panadero
He kneads and kneads the dough, that baker
Su pan es alimento y tambien tormento.
His bread is both sustenance and torment.
Calienta, calienta, calienta el horno
Heat, heat, heat up the oven
Baja, bajate los pantalones,
Lower, lower your pants,
Mira allá que viene, es el panadero,
Look over there, here comes the baker,
Tiene los pantalones muy apretados.
He's wearing very tight pants.
Panadero de mi amor
Baker of my love
Panadero... de mi vida.
Baker... of my life.
Amasa que amasa la masa ese panadero
He kneads and kneads the dough, that baker
Su pan es alimento y tambien tormento.
His bread is both sustenance and torment.
Calienta, calienta, calienta el horno
Heat, heat, heat up the oven
Baja, bajate los pantalones,
Lower, lower your pants,
Calienta, calienta, calienta el horno
Heat, heat, heat up the oven
Baja, bajate los pantalones,
Lower, lower your pants,
Calienta, calienta, calienta el horno
Heat, heat, heat up the oven
Baja, bajate los pantalones.
Lower, lower your pants.
Contributed by Scarlett J. Suggest a correction in the comments below.