{"id":3641676,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3641676/?format=json","airdate":"2026-04-13T20:03:00-07:00","show":66446,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66446/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Bailando","track_id":null,"recording_id":"df70bd9c-3492-43c3-9ca7-4576cb9f5009","artist":"Alaska y los Pegamoides","artist_ids":["d7a16aab-6822-4d14-985e-8f87a2602051"],"album":"Bailando","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"d5375aff-ebfd-4f7e-95d9-7992584e3803","labels":["Kingdom Records"],"label_ids":["aa7ad0b8-edad-4004-9dd7-ee0542975356"],"release_date":"1982-01-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Alaska y Los Pegamoides’ “Bailando” remains one of the great acts of deadpan liberation in Spanish pop. Released in 1982, the song became a defining artifact of the early Movida era not by sounding grandiose, but by making repetition itself feel ecstatic and slightly absurd. Its lyric is famously simple: dancing, drinking, neighbors complaining. Yet that simplicity is exactly what gives the song its enduring force. Alaska y Los Pegamoides understood that post-punk and new wave could make room for humor, boredom, nightlife, and social performance without sacrificing style. “Bailando” captures that brilliantly. It turns a tiny scene into an anthem, a domestic nuisance into a philosophy of pleasure. The beat stays light on its feet, the vocal delivery stays cool, and the whole thing moves with the kind of irreverent clarity that made the band so central to a cultural shift larger than any one track. What still makes “Bailando” feel alive is its refusal to overstate itself. It does not sermonize about freedom; it enacts it through repetition and nerve. The song is playful, yes, but also quietly radical in how little justification it offers for joy. It dances because dancing is enough. That remains a powerful proposition. \u2028Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZtVn4STac","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}