Is the album intentionally nostalgic and traditional in feel?
Papaíto’s style is all nostalgic. Papaíto is critical of the establishment, values, relationships, women. Critical of the relationship between man and woman; infidelity: men who live with it and men who accept this moral setting. Papaíto is very hard on these segments of folks. He’s an old time moralist: the values of yesteryear. Is Papaíto responsible for the lyrical content? He writes a lot of the stuff he sings and writes all the stuff he improvises. I really love to work with him. He’s a fun cat. And his music is so fresh, it’s so new. Papaíto is the complete opposite of salsa erótica. In salsa erótica they talk about: “Lady I don’t care what you do as long as you don’t leave me. You’re a prostitute, you enjoy what you do, but I love you regardless.” This type of chicken shit. This is what the modernists are talking about. Papaíto is 180 degrees opposite to that. It’s all macho, if you want to call it that. I know macho is detested now by almost everyone. But to me it’s so sincere,
