Macarron Chacarron

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“Macarron Chacarron”

Single by El Chombo featuring Andy's Val Gourmet
Released	December 5, 2006
Format	CD
Recorded	2005
Genre	Reggaeton
Label	Universal

Macarron Chacarron (usually shortened to Chacarron) is a hit pseudo-Spanish language song. In Spanish, macarron means "Tubular powder" (i.e. cocaine) and chacarron means "party." The song is by two artists - Rodney Clark, known as "El Chombo" (The self titled "Godfather of the Reggaeton sound," best known for Lorna's 2003 worldwide hit "Papi Chulo") and Andy De La Cruz (also known as Andy Val Gourmet), both artists from Panama. The song has gained popularity on the Internet because of its nonsense lyrics (which despite sounding vaguely Spanish, are nothing but gibberish) and odd music video, with an excerpt featured on many sites. Andy’s mumbled vocals were originally laid down as a rough skit with a view to writing "proper" lyrics later but because many loved what he had recorded, they decided to keep the original version. ^[1]

Since then many internet sites (often from YTMND) have juxtaposed the song with humorous videos of various figures and characters, such as Batman or Shrek. The most famous YTMND usage of the Macarron Chacarron audio track is called "Ualuealuealeuale", an onomatopoeia of the gibberish hook, and features various clips of Batman dancing and fighting. The song is sometimes falsely credited to El Mudo, an underground Spanish pop group.

BBC Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills started a campaign on October 30, 2006 to get the song to #1 in the UK singles chart. A link was put up on the BBC website to the video on YouTube. Although the song did not reach the top, the campaign pushed the song all the way up to #20, which became its peak.

A similar song, "Chacarron Macarron", appeared as the first track of Yahari's album Las + Bailables de .... Yahari.^[2]

It is one of the current at-bat songs of New York Mets shortstop Jose Reyes and Cleveland Indians third baseman Andy Marte. Additionally, Arizona Diamondbacks Catcher Miguel Montero used this song in the 2007 season.

The song contains a sample from "The Breaks" by Kurtis Blow.