In light of Clevertrousers'
comment earlier today, I thought it might be fun to take a look at what was going on in the Madrid music scene back during the
Movida Madrileña, a cultural movement in the years directly following the death of Franco when Spanish people basically freaked the F out (i.e. lots of drugs, sex, and drag). At the forefront of this movement were people like Pedro Almodóvar (surprise surprise) and his singing parter Fanny McNamara, who possessed precious little musical talent, but more than made up for it with campy theatrics. These days Almodóvar y McNamara (as the duo was known) are good for two things: fodder for crusty Spanish art professors to wax poetic about the Movida (I've experienced this first hand), and YouTube videos.
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