Singer Fey during a presentation of her 2018 Desnuda tour (Photo: Carlos Tischler/Getty Images).
if that Popocatepetl Volcano reminded us that on December 21, 1994, María Fernández Blázquez Gil, which is why they call him “the smoking mountain”, had managed to catch the attention of Mauri – a member of Magneto who began his career as an artistic representative -, who signed her to make her the next teen pop star
Maria Fernanda became fey and with a self-titled debut album that mixed techno and bubblegum pop, he established himself as the revelation of the year. The adolescents copied their way of dressing – essentially denim with sweatshirts tied at the waist – and of course their choreographies were not absent from parties either.
In 1996, both Fey and Popo made headlines again: the volcano began a new period of activity before spring, an event geophysicists described as comparable to that of 1994, but also observing the growth of the first lava dome at the crater floor.
For her part, the singer released her second record, Tierna la Noche, at the end of the year, an album that saw Fey seek her more introspective side and capture the experiences of her early career year. But next to songs like “Azúcar amargo” or “Lágrimas en mi almohada”, very personal and idealistic, “Popocatépetl” sounded risky and strange “for his keyboard programming and a series of electronic shocks,” according to the All Music website.
And it is that the lyrics of the song, which they only said was inspired by the volcano, begins with a kind of ritual that involves a dance to attract the rain, only to later focus on a somewhat toxic relationship, in which one does not pay attention to the other and there are warnings of violence, far removed from the love story that exists around the volcano and its neighbors, the Iztaccíhuatl.
25 years later, Fey and Popocatépetl made headlines again.
Located between the state of Mexico, Puebla and Morelos, the “Smoking Mountain” roared again with greater frequency and intensity in the early weeks of May. The blasts of the past few days have shattered doors and windows, particularly in nearby towns, and one of their latest fumaroles dropped ash to the north and east of Mexico City, forcing the closure of the capital’s airports. Authorities have raised the alert level but without requiring an evacuation, although some do not rule this out.
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Though a shocking event, many have revived Fey’s song as if to calm down Don Goyo. “I think we all learn Fey’s ‘Popocatépetl’ choreography and dance it together, that will surely bring peace to the volcano”, “If Fey dances his punch to the volcano, will Popocatépetl calm down?”, “Maybe Popocatépetl is angry, because “Fey no longer sings his song on the 90’s Pop Tour”, are some comments on the stations.
Seemingly The singer doesn’t include her hit in her repertoire, but when she does, something bad happens on stage (or so they say).
While participating in the 90’s Pop Tour in 2017, Fey performed “Popocatépetl” with Caló and later with MDO, but every time they sang it, someone from the cast would fall because the song was said to fire fumaroles (“narana, nara , ye; narana, pum, pum, Popocatépetl”).
Unlucky coincidences included Beto Cuevas, MDO’s Abel Talamántez and Irán Castillo. “They fall from us, it’s dangerous, we were all traumatized but now they’re fine,” Fey said in an interview with El Informador. She hadn’t succumbed to this “curse” until then.