As I was researching the tango I started to realize that a lot of the songs had a common theme: A Love Triangle. I first started to realize this in the song "Tango Maureen" from Rent but it was more of a betrayal they both faced with the same women but they still loved her anyways. Then I came across the song "Objection (Tango)" by Shakira. Take a look at the music video:
In the beginning it is evident that they are dancing the tango to the traditional tango music, they even show a bandoneón, but then the music picks up and becomes the actual song and Shakira starts dancing like Shakira does. It is funny because it is a spin off Rudolph Valenino's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse tango scene. Click here to see the full video.
The lyrics also incorporate aspects of the tango because it is a song about being cheated on but still wanting to love the man that cheated on her but she doesn't know if she can, much like in the "Tango Maureen." She sings "I'm tired of this triangle, Got dizzy dancing tango."Which makes sense because there is a lot of spinning around when dancing. It also says "Tango is not for three, Was never meant to be." [1] It is known that there is no room in love for three people and this song and the "Tango Maureen" emphasize that. But why do both songs talk about the tango like it is with three people?
There is another less known genre of tango called “fusion tango” which does involve three people. It came about fairly recently in 2000 by Sandra Antognazzi. She combined the original Argentine Tango with modern dance. It takes the original romance from the tango and pushes it a little further by adding another dancer, or "character", into the mix with more seduction and it makes for very unexpected ending [2]. I tried looking up her version of the tango that she has choreographed but since it is so new there was not much. Here is a clip from the movie Take the Lead that has a type of "fusion" 3-person tango:
It is amazing where your mind can take you when you start thinking about a topic. I starting putting clues of songs together and found out about an entirely new genre of dance. It goes with out saying that one thing does lead to another. Although neither of these songs are the traditional "love triangle" they do deal with being betrayed in love and trying to win another person over romantically which is what a lot of tango songs are about. It is crazy when you think about how most things are all linked to or related to each other in some way.
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