Somos Anormales

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"Somos Anormales" (We Are Abnormal) is the debut single by Puerto Rican singer Residente, released on January 13, 2017, as the first single from his 2017 debut solo album Residente.

Video Somos Anormales

Composition and lyrics

The song was written and recorded in Kyzyl, Tuva, Siberia, where Residente spent one week. It features throat singing band Chirgilchin. According to him, they are singing in Tuvan a concept he originally wrote in Spanish, then translated to English so they could finally translate it to their native language.

According to Residente, "the usage of the term 'abnormal' allowed me to break free from the depreciative connotation of the word to convert it in a inclusive concept. If there is something that we all have in common, is that we are different". In a press release of 2016, Residente told people to "have their eyes, ears and minds open for what is coming".

Maps Somos Anormales

Music video

The video for the song marks Residente's directional debut and was shot in Madrid, Spain, over the course of four days. It features John Leguizamo, Leonor Watling, Óscar Jaenada and Juan Diego Botto, among 70 others, and was created by Zapatero Film (Puerto Rico) and Deseif Producciones (Spain).

It shows a woman hatching from an egg and giving birth to multiple naked adults with conditions such as dwarfism and albinism. They quickly craft clothes out of wool and divide into two groups, one clean (representing the rich and powerful) and another dirty (representing those who have no money nor power). Both quickly engage in a fight, but they end up turning violence into love. Throughout the video, Residente sings with his head popping out of the woman's vagina.

The scene with the giant vagina expelling people has been compared to a scene in Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to Her, in which Watling was cast. About the video concept, Residente says:

Residente also said that the battle scene can be applied to many different contexts of conflicts.