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Piano bar
Charly García · 1984 · Track 2
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Duración2:44
ÁlbumPiano bar
Año1984
ISRCARF140300027
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The story behind
Charly García wrote Promesas sobre el bidet in 1984, when he was preparing his third solo album. The song was released in Piano Bar, an album recorded in Buenos Aires and mixed in New York. The lyrics talk about someone who asks another not to make promises over the bidet, not to open more envelopes, not to drink or cry. The one speaking promises to write if the other stops crying or running. In the chorus, he asks why he is treated this way, good and bad at the same time, because sometimes he is fine and other times he is sad, because he didn't learn to live. It ends with a line of disconnection: “each one has their own trip in the bocho; difficult that we reach an agreement”.
The song has a rhythm that moves with a metronome, three repeated chords and a bass riff that changes the order of the notes. The style reminds of the Beatles because of the form of the verses and the repeated bridge. The lyrics were born from a difficult moment: García had had a scandal for showing his genitals in a concert, and a magazine photographed him naked in the toilet. He got angry with the journalist who interviewed him, because he had promised not to publish the photo. Two months later he released the album, and the song stayed in his head.