It has been the best meme of 2023 so far: David Bisbal enters the dressing room of the WiZink Center, where the Primavera Pop festival sponsored by Los 40 was being held and says “How are the machines? First of all, are you all right? Come on, let’s take a picture”. In fact, for the first time in a long time, everyone who has spoken about the singer has been to extol his virtues. However, it is not the first time that Bisbal has given us memes showing us that, why deny it, he is a machine.
Feeling the anthem of Spai
Neither put lyrics to it as Marta Sánchez did nor extol patriotic values in outlandish ways: David Bisbal came out of the gym and in an Instagram story under the text “Spain” sang every note of the anthem as if feeling them deep in his soul. There is no October 12 that Bisbal does not return to Twitter. With good reason.
Child Jesus
Year 2004. A Bisbal who only two years after his appearance in ‘Operation Triumph‘ went to Tres Cantos to participate in a living nativity scene absolutely tropospheric: Ana Torroja as the Virgin Mary, El Sevilla as St. Joseph, Estopa as the little angels, Malú as the shepherdess… And our protagonist as the Baby Jesus. He can’t help being a machine.
Dancing pharmacy
In 2002, a young David Bisbal, who at that time was touring Spain with the Expresiones Orchestra, stood out by jumping, bouncing and giving his all on stage. And as proof, the casting of ‘Operación Triunfo’ in which he showed what he knew how to do. What he didn’t expect was that twenty years later he would go viral because his dancing would go with any music. Particularly with ‘Farmacia de guardia’, as Lola Indigo showed in ‘La resistencia’.
The streets of Egypt
David Bisbal, in his traveling facet, became the talk of Twitter in 2011 after his socio-political commentary on the popular revolt that led to the end of Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship: “Never have the pyramids of Egypt been so little traveled, hopefully soon the revolt will end“. For days #turismobisbal was trending topic, and only dared to say that he had never been to the country ten years later, in ‘La Sexta Noche’, where he confessed his passion for Ramses II. Another machine.
Yatekomo, Yatekomo
The proof that Bisbal is much more than a singer, a pop culture star, is his ability to laugh at himself. And nowhere more so than in the Yatekomo ad to the rhythm of ‘Bulería‘, which left its mark on the collective imagination. It was not the only ad in which he showed his face with his consequent joke, or don’t you remember that “Milk, cocoa, hazelnuts and sugar” intoned as if they were the most romantic song in the world?
This is unbelievable
Before the machines, the noodles, his cameo in ‘Torrente 4’ and Egypt, Bisbal was the most imitated of the academy of ‘Operación Triunfo’ (along with the cries of Bustamante) for a phrase that haunts him to this day: “This is incredible”. One of the first memes in the history of Spain and that still resonates now. And it is time to admit that it is an essential piece to understand the Spanish pop culture. And not only because of the “pop”.
