Él Me Engañó

"Él Me Engañó" (English: He Cheated On Me) is a song performed by Mexican singer Paulina Rubio, recorded for her second studio album 24 Kilates (1993). The song was written by César Valle and Don Matamoros, and was released on February 3, 1994 as the second single off the album by EMI Latin. The song has been sporadically mentioned by the media as one of the singer's most acclaimed female anthems.[2]

"Él Me Engañó"
Single by Paulina Rubio
from the album 24 Kilates
ReleasedFebruary 3, 1994 (1994-02-03)
RecordedEstudios Balu-Balu
(Madrid, Spain)
Genre
[1]
Length4:09
LabelEMI Capitol
Songwriter(s)
  • C. Valle
  • Don Matamoros
Producer(s)Miguel Blasco
Paulina Rubio singles chronology
"Nieva, Nieva"
(1993)		 "Él Me Engañó"
(1994)		 "Asunto De Dos"
(1994)
Music video
"Él Me Engañó" on YouTube

Musically, "Él Me Engañó" is like Rubio's previous single, which is pop-rock related, with instruments including guitars, drum machine and tambourine effects. The song peaked at #4 in the Mexico city chart of the El Siglo de Torreón. [3]

Music video
Rubio looks like a Golden Medusa in the music video for "Él Me Engañó".

"Él Me Engañó" featured a sepia tone music video that was directed by Daniel Gruener[4] and filmed at Rubio's hometown in Mexico in January 1994. The video features Rubio in a church in her wedding day.The filming locations were in the Church of San Pedro Apostol in Tláhuac, Mexico City and the forum of the América studios.

In the video, she appears wearing a wedding provocative dress with a big heart on her back as neckline, Rubio wait outside the church to her boyfriend, who never arrives and disconsolate, runs around looking for him. In alternative scenes, there appears an alter ego of Rubio similar to Medusa in gold body paint interprets the song, this symbolizes the power and feminine wisdom that she acquires, after the break with her boyfriend. It also represents their spiritual light, as in Egyptian culture.

The video cost was 25,000 dollars and according to the director, it is a mixture of game images of the old and the modern. A concept that Rubio had already used in his first videos, especially in "Nieva, Nieva".[5]

A similar concept adopted for the video of the song "Suave y Sutil" in 2018, belonging to his eleventh studio album "Deseo".

Credits and personnel
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gollark: Why would you group together electronics and programming?
gollark: Anyway, I mostly do programming and maths, which are totally sciences, yes.
gollark: Did you know? We are now performing actions within, outside of, beyond, in front of, behind and to the left of your comprehension.
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References
  1. "Él Me Engañó - Paulina Rubio". allmusic.com. Allmusic. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  2. Coll, Jorge. "10 canciones de Paulina Rubio para cada ocasión". quien.com.mx. Revista Quien. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  3. "El Elepé de Vilo". El Siglo de Torreón. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  4. "IMVDb Rubio, Paulina". IMVDb. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
  5. "Paulina Rubio - Mi competencia es comigo misma". El Siglo de Torreón (in Spanish). Editora de la Laguna. January 21, 1994.
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