Ciudad de pobres corazones

When Fito Páez composed Ciudad de pobres corazones, he was going through a moment of profound shock. The news of the murder of his grandmothers in Rosario hit him while he was in Brazil. This pain, added to media pressure, led him to seek refuge. In 1987, he traveled to Tahiti with a friend, and it was there that much of the material for the album that would bear the same name as this song began to take shape. However, the piece had already been publicly presented in December 1986, during a concert with Luis Alberto Spinetta, marking a preview of the intensity that would define that stage of his career.

Musically, the song is built on a piano foundation, but it is disguised with a powerful guitar riff that evokes the style of AC/DC. The vocals, moreover, are processed with chamber effects, creating a sonic atmosphere that, while aiming for a heavy and dark sound, retained the melodic essence of the piano. This sonic duality aligns with the attitude that Páez was beginning to show in public, distancing himself from the image of the "good boy of rock" and expressing a latent "violence" that manifested in his lyrics, such as the reference to "this fucking city." The cover of Canta Rock magazine, where he posed in a leather jacket and shared his visit to The Ramones' first show in Argentina, reflects this change of direction.