There’s a really odd technopop group out of Argentina that became somewhat a suprise hit in the last two years. The band is called Miranda! and I use one of their songs–once a year only in Spanish 2 and 3–for ‘we’ commands. I really don’t like technopop, and this song gets on my nerves like no other, and I dislike the whole hidden-love theme (although the video clears that up a bit). I’d rather listen to Enrique sing Dímelo than listen to this one, and that’s saying a lot for me. But, I’ve never seen anything with better lyrics to show the use of subjunctive in ‘we’ commands, and some of my students actually do like it. So, if you can stand it, here it is–Yo te diré by Miranda! The music videois actually quite funny; think Grease meets West Side Story meets Romeo and Juliet. Enjoy.
