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Far from letting the confrontation she starred in with President Javier Milei pass and turning the page, Lali Espósito redoubled the bet: yesterday the pop artist presented “Fanático”, her brand new song, and it immediately became a trend. The video, uploaded to YouTube, has not only been viewed more than 520 thousand times, but has also generated countless comments on social networks in relation to the references to the libertarian leader. Here, seven moments from the topic in which, in a subtle way, Lali seems to respond to all of his criticisms of the President.
The confrontation between Lali Espósito and Javier Milei began after the libertarian won the PASO last year. “How dangerous, how sad,” the artist commented on her social networks in August 2023, which generated a wave of criticism from the followers of La Libertad Avanza. Shortly afterwards, in an interview for Radio Rivadavia, Jonatan Viale asked the then candidate: “Do you know who Lali Espósito is?” “Sorry. No,” he responded. “You don’t know who he is,” the journalist was surprised. “I don’t know who it is. I listen to The Rolling Stones, or I listen to opera. “I’m not very good at popular music,” he concluded. “You love to pretend you have no idea who I am,” Lali begins the song, alluding to that radio talk.
In February of this year, while pointing out Cosquín Rock and the musical events that had been held in the different provinces of the country, the President renamed Lali Espósito in the middle of an interview he gave to LN+. “All the artists who were there, like Lali ‘Depósito’, received money from the State,” he shot in reference to the famous event that takes place every year in Córdoba and which, as he explained, cost the provincial administration “one billion pesos.” in subsidies.”
“I don’t know if it reaches that figure of one billion,” refuted journalist Pablo Rossi, a native of Córdoba, who conducted the interview with Luis Majul and Esteban Trebucq. “Well, but Lali ‘Depósito’ collected money from several governments. For example from La Rioja,” Milei said and stated that “in one of the recitals he earned $350,000.” The head of the Executive Branch did not provide further information regarding when the alleged show took place or if the eventual payment was made in foreign or national currency. Lali raised the glove, appropriated the pseudonym that Milei invented for her to discredit her, and recorded most of her video clip in a warehouse.
Because of his lush and mostly disheveled hair, after his first appearances on television, Milei was given a nickname that transcended time: “The Wig.” Today, his fans and followers on social media often refer to their leader that way. In one of the sections of the clip, the artist sings with a very rock style and the microphone in her hand wearing a disheveled wig on her head.
When Milei assured that he did not know Lali, he said that, instead, he listened to the legendary English band made up of Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Attentive to the tastes of her opponent, Lali included some nods to the Rolling Stones in the clip. First, with a fan who presents himself in front of her in an unmistakable “rollinga” style. Then, with the classic step that is already a Jagger hallmark. And finally, with a Rolling Stones t-shirt with the tongue in light blue and white. To add even more symbolic weight to the situation, the “rollinga” t-shirt bears a legend that also seems to be directed at Milei: “Who the fuck is Lali?” reads the cotton t-shirt on the front. (Charly García wore the same one years ago, but with his name: “Who the fuck is Charly,” it read on the garment.
Throughout the video, Lali can be seen in a warehouse sitting behind a table while doing a kind of casting of her fans. Most of those who pass by do so with some reference to the artist’s career, except for a few. At one point, while she is reading a newspaper with herself on the cover and the word “scandal,” an adult man with sideburns appears and tears up the number that identifies him and throws the pieces around. Then he starts shouting things, while Lali looks at him confused, eats a hot dog and falls asleep… The man screams, gets angry, gestures. And he’s wearing a black leather jacket, like Milei usually does.
During one of the sections of the video, Lali stops, looks at the camera and with the same look that she wears in the poster that she later discovers that she vandalizes, shoots one of the strongest phrases in the clip. “I understand what’s happening to you: you’re just a child. Even if you act bad, you are lacking affection. “I have no enemies and I don’t need them,” she expresses, and seems to speak to the person who established her for a time as one of her clearest enemies: Milei.
At the end of the audiovisual production, Lali and her fans begin to dance while pulling serpentine and foam with knobs in their hands. The reference, in this case, is to a phrase she made at the height of the controversy she was involved in with the president. On January 25, on a cell phone that he gave to LAM, The singer supported the music industry and clarified what the team that accompanies her on her tours is like to disassociate herself from Milei’s accusations. In addition, he analyzed why Milei decided to confront the artists and it was forceful.
“It seems that the foam is being necessary for some. Foam should not exist. In the world of culture it is very easy to find out how things are. In this situation of ‘foam’ that I have to live through, I believe that those who need it create it because there is no such foam,” explained the author of “Discipline.” “In my case, they interfered with the hiring of municipal shows, creating the image of the artist leaving with bags full of the town’s money. One thing is that not only is it an absolute delusion, but the discussion should be: ‘in my government I do not want municipal shows, money for culture or free shows for the people.’ That depends on each government,” he explained. “From there, to create this monster necessary to bastardize culture or not talk about perhaps other issues, is another question. I don’t jump or get angry because I understand that they need the foam. I don’t like being the center of that foam, but I have the peace of mind of the years of work, of who I am, how I move,” he concluded.
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