Song of the day: Mediocre – Ximena Sariñana

I am not a big fan of pop music, but I could become a fan of that category sometimes. This is a good example of it.

Ximena Sariñana is a Mexican singer / actress, daughter of Fernando Sariñana, director and producer of some Mexican films and she has been in some. However, her true talent is, in my opinion, composing and singing.

She started her singing career time ago with the band ‘Feliz no cumpleaños’ (Spanish for ‘Happy Not-Birthday’). Later she kept on studying music in Mexico, and then released her first solo album: Mediocre. This is the album that got me into her.

But her style is nowadays more.. “pop-ish”, filled up with glitter and happy melodies. Not my taste actually, but her very first album ‘Mediocre‘ is one of my favorites, a nice balad/jazzy sound in every melody that makes you sing along with her even when the songs are kind of depressing some times.

Here I present my favorite song from the album (hard to pick among all the songs), which is the song that gives the name to the album: Mediocre. Lyrics with translation are below 😉

Spanish English
Son las hojas que escribí ayer.
El lenguaje que quedó en tu piel.
Fue la tinta a toda intención
de dejarte lo que soy.Poco a poco
Ganó mi ocio.
Cuando veo ya no estás
y me quedé hasta el final.

Y me creí tan especial
¡Qué ingenua, mi torpeza!
Y me sentí tan esencial
¡Qué ingenua, mi vergüenza!
Me olvidaste.
Por mi parte ¡Qué mediocre!

Me encanta escucharte hablar
¡Qué elegancia hacerte sentir mal!
Sólo quiero que quisieras hoy
demostrarte lo que soy.

Y poco a poco
ganó mi odio.
No quisiste algo más
y me quedé hasta el final.

Y me creí tan especial
¡Qué ingenua, mi torpeza!
Y me sentí tan esencial
¡Qué ingenua, mi vergüenza!
Me olvidaste.
Por mi parte ¡Qué mediocre!

They are the sheets I wrote yesterday.
The language that remains on your skin.
It was the ink in its full intention
Of leaving everything I am to you.Little by little
my idleness won.
When I see it and you are not there
and I stayed until the end.

And I believed I was so special.
So naive, my dimness!
And I felt I was so essential.
So naive, my shame!
You forgot me.
By my side, what a mediocre!

I love hearing you talking.
What an elegance to make you feel bad!
I only want you to want me today
to show you what I am.

And little by little
my anger won.
You didn’t want anything else
and I stayed until the end.

And I believed I was so special.
So naive, my dimness!
And I felt I was so essential.
So naive, my shame!
You forgot me.
By my side, what a mediocre!

3 thoughts on “Song of the day: Mediocre – Ximena Sariñana

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