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Animal nocturno
Ricardo Arjona · 1992 · Track 14
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The song “Amor de tele” is one of those pieces that sneaks into people’s lives without warning. It doesn’t have grandiose choruses or a beat that makes you want to move your feet, but there it is, with lyrics that keep swirling around in your head like a message you can’t quite figure out. Arjona plays with the idea of a love experienced through a screen—something that in the ’90s—when this song came out—sounded like the near future but also like a cold distance. It’s neither a catchy ballad nor a dance track, but something more intimate, as if the protagonist were talking to himself in his room while looking out the window.
This song is part of *Animal Nocturno*, the album released in February 1993 that changed everything for Ricardo Arjona. By then, he had already been a basketball player and a teacher, but music had hooked him for good. With this album, the artist took his songwriting a step further, blending a rebellious spirit with a more polished style, all while retaining that essence of telling stories rooted in everyday life. “Amor de tele” wasn’t a chart-topping single, but it is a song that many fans from his early days remember fondly—like that little detail that doesn’t stand out but ends up being part of the soundscape of his career.