Puro Veneno (2020) – Nathy Peluso

“Salsa is the music that has saved me so many times. It has shown me powerful ways of dealing with life. Wherever I go, I listen to salsa. It’s the soundtrack of my days. ‘Puro Veneno’ is the story of an intoxicated love. Salsa provides the perfect way to communicate a feeling of pain, while at the same time escape it. The genre’s natural melodrama and the imagery it invokes have always inspired me. Its strength and spirit are unique. I made ‘Puro Veneno’ because I want to learn from that and stay close to salsa wherever I go, and I want my audience to know the energy that this amazing genre transmits.” – Nathy Peluso

Puro Veneno (Pure Venom) is the third song to feature here from Argentinian Spain based artist Nathy Peluso after her previous entries La Violetera and Nasty Girl. Nathy is so theatrical, and I think there’s a vulnerability in expressing yourself and sometimes creates awkwardness. But when she does it well, she nails it, like here. I could watch her performance of Puro Veneno on repeat and never grow tired of it. Also the Colorsxstudios set below is a unique aesthetic music platform which provide a clear, minimalist stage that shines a spotlight on Peluso giving her the opportunity to present their music without distraction.

Puro Veneno is the penultimate song on the album Calambre recorded with a full Puerto Rican salsa band during the COVID-19 pandemic while Nathy was in Spain.

The song Puro Veneno tells the story of a relationship and how Nathy has fallen in love with a man, while during the course of the relationship she has become somewhat toxic. During the story it can also be understood that, although this relationship is toxic, Nathy continues to feel love for this man, even comparing this infatuation with a poison from which she wants to escape.

Below is a raw translation of some of the lyrics:

[Intro]
I came to tell the story
How that man poisoned me
Rra!

[Verse 1]
Bad wishes, no hope
Knife dances in my throat
I want to believe, my sister, that this is not the end
I still feel the corashe to live (Corashe, corashe!)
Between the branches of your body
That night a snake bit me
And its poison has stunned me
So addictive that the pleasure is now pain (Hey!)

[Pre-Chorus]
You are poison, pure poison (It hurts me)
Inevitable (That burns me), like your kisses
I have no brake or antidote, dad (Rra!)
So go away, I have no more mercy (Cramp, ha!)

[Chorus]
Oh me, that man poisoned me
What to suffer, sanity took me away
Oh me, that man poisoned me
Someone tell me how I can fix it
I need a remedy

Nathy was born as Natalia Beatriz Dora Peluso and is an Argentinian singer (of Italian Ancestry), songwriter, dancer. Peluso worked in Spain and is distinguished for her theatrical personality onstage, and her fusion of hip hop, soul, and world music. She sings drama, salsa, jazz, reggaeton, boleros, tango, soul, trap, and hip – hop.

References:
1. Serenade for Strings (Dvořák) – Wikipedia

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