Singled Out: Anders Nilsen's Salsa Tequila
. "Salsa Tequila" started as an idea about making a comedy song with the saxophone in it, but since a song with just the saxophone would be "just one of the 60 million songs with a saxophone in it" we decided to add more of the classic summer song ingredients like an up tempo dancy beat, the accordion and so on. When the beat was done and lyrics came into play, I went on YouTube to get some vocal references and quickly realized that the artists that made most of the huge summer saxophone/accordion songs were Spanish and had Spanish lyrics. That sparked the idea of having Spanish lyrics on top of what was already a huge pot of summer song gumbo. The first problem with that idea though is that I don't speak any Spanish, and neither do most Norwegians, so even if I spent 2 weeks writing a love song or whatever in Spanish, Norwegians wouldn't get 95% of the song. The "Gasolina" song by Daddy Yankee was a real big hit in Norway when it came out, but literally no one knew any other word in the song except for "Gasolina", so they would mumble the entire song and then scream GASOLIIINA! when that word came in the chorus. So that sparked the idea of doing lyrics that were 100% Spanish words; drinks, foods, artists, actors and so on that people knew, had heard about and could sing along to. Me and one of my buddies have had this inside joke with the voice on the "Guacamole Jalapeno" part (kinda sounds like a guy almost crapping his pants) for years, and that's the first thing that made us laugh until we got tears in our eyes, and made us think "ok, this actually sounds really funny". So then we recorded the vocals for the entire song, made the lyric video in my buddy Galvan's room, and put it out hoping to get like 10,000 views during the summer months. Then it took on a life of it's own on the internet� Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself as you watch the video here and learn more about the Anders here!
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