Lucky you, you don’t know Moderatto…

Those who know about music might have felt offended about the iac Moderatto reference in my last post, then I felt the moral obligation to clarify this issue: I was not, and I repeat NOT referring to the Moderato (notice one “t”) movement in classical music, that describes a way to play one part of a longer composition in a moderated speed, normally 80 crotchets per minute, slower than an allegretto (100 crotchets p/m). NOT AT ALL, I’m completely respectful about tempos and all the classical culture it holds.

Nevertheless, I meant the swearword, nay, THE INSULT that a bunch of Mexican “musicians” spelled against the music world with a “group” named Moderatto (notice double “t”):

Outrageous rocker posers, eighties look. This guys neither play rock nor have a style or anything, they are not even a real group, just a struck of luck.

They were created on the year 2000, as their last sly trick before the end of the world I guess. Unfortunately Earth didn’t ate us alive and we remained here to listen to them in every bad taste advertisement of soda, and look before our distressed eyes the embarrassing parade of spellbound fans they’ve got. How come they even got fans!?!?!

But hell, they show the world how to make a living out of the mentally handicapped mass:
The story of the band is obviously a laughing tale, if anyone with just a little bit of knowledge about Mexican rock knows that Javier “El Cha” (Xavi Moderatto, bass) and Jay de la Cueva (Brian Amadeus Moderatto, singer, guitar and piano, though I don’t know where they use this last one) are not even brothers but used to play in Fobia together, just for mentioning the stepping stones for the rest of the hallucination (please, tell me they are not real). Besides, Marcelo Lara (Mick P. Marcy, guitar) is a manager of a radio station, Reactor 105.7. A fact which, by the way, has been highly critizised by real musicians who accuse Marcelo of using its job for “personal purposes”, meaning publicity for Moderatto.

They have accepted the group is just a joke out of control, which intended at first to parody glam metal bands, but got followers willing to buy their albums.

da, da, da, da!!!!

da, da, da, da!!!!

Their songs are pitiful 80’s pop covers (seriously, they’ve got Parchis in their CV) with horrible wannabe metal guitar poses, and some stolen arrangements from real glam metal bands, using as well their aesthetic as declared posers. I’d play a sample but I don’t want to insult this blog, just as proof, they’ve got Motley Crüe’s “Home sweet home” piano arrangements mixed in a cover of a mexican ballad, trying to make it sound rocker.

The members are just characters as they already accepted, making fun of glam so… to me, being their fan would equal someone being crazy about a performance of Marilín Mensón, a character from a Mexican comedian Eugenio Derbez which parodies Marilyn Manson.

So, What’s wrong with you people?¡?¡?¡

Tags: Moderatto, rant, Reactor