{"id":3629854,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3629854/?format=json","airdate":"2026-03-16T19:47:12-07:00","show":66201,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66201/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Historia del Arte","track_id":null,"recording_id":"01091546-cfbb-4738-8005-d5d5c0d52453","artist":"Las Bistecs","artist_ids":["2f77364f-0900-49b8-be68-8be2c57c99cc"],"album":"Oferta","release_id":null,"release_group_id":null,"labels":[],"label_ids":[],"release_date":"2016-09-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"“HDA (Historia del Arte)” is one of the sharpest, funniest, and most conceptually mischievous songs to come out of Spain’s 2010s underground pop sphere. Las Bistecs, the Barcelona duo formed by Alba Rihe and Carla Moreno, described their own style as “electro-disgusting,” a performance-music practice meant to provoke and unsettle a society saturated with information. “HDA” later appeared on their debut Oferta and quickly became one of the project’s calling cards. What makes the song so effective is that it treats art history not as a solemn archive, but as material for satire, repetition, and dance-floor absurdity. The hook’s invocation of Greeks and Romans collapses high culture into chant, exposing how institutional art discourse often masks its own ridiculousness. Las Bistecs understood that parody can be a serious critical tool, especially when routed through pop pleasure. “HDA” is catchy by design, but the catchiness is part of the argument. Why should bodies move only to songs about glamour or heartbreak, when they could also move to a chorus that skewers cultural hierarchy? The duo’s aesthetic was always about turning discomfort into spectacle and spectacle into critique. This track does exactly that. It is irreverent, smart, trashy in the best sense, and unusually democratic in its humor. It invites listeners to laugh at the museum while dancing inside it.\nListen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sENT7Ntbr-o","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}