The Ketchup Song (Aserejé)
June 30, 2002
The Ketchup Song ( Aserejé ) is a song by Spanish girl group Las Ketchup from the year 2002. Single release reached number one in many countries of the charts. For this song the dance craze of 2002 was created.
Music style
The song describes in a mix of Spanish and English, the story of Diego, dancing in the disco to a piece that the DJ plays nightly. He sings: " Aserejé, yes deje tejebe tude jebere sebiunouba majabi to de Bugui to de buididipí ", where it is the Sugar Hill Gang to a phonetic " implementation " of the first lines of the rap song Rapper's Delight, " I said a hip hop the hippie to the hippie / to the hip hip hop, a, and you do not stop / a rock it to the bang bang boogie, say up jumped the boogie / to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat ". There are also in addition to the English - Spanish version, a purely Spanish-language version.
The melody of the piece was in the GERD- show for the political- satirical tax Song ( Las chancellors ) is used, which also ranked number one for weeks on the charts in 2002.
Charts
In May 2002, The Ketchup Song reached # 1 in Spain and stayed there for five weeks. The song reached the top spot in the singles charts, including Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Sweden and Hungary in numerous other countries.