# Has Anyone Heard "The Ketchup Song"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 20, 2002, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-heard-the-ketchup-song/133097 "2002-10-20T13:55:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2002, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-heard-the-ketchup-song/133097/1 "2002-10-20T13:55:04Z")
There’s this new pop song called “The Ketchup Song.” It’s sung by a group of Puerto-Rican sounding women singing in English and Spansih, often switching languages _ **in the same sentence!** _ It’s got a peppy beat and I suppose it’s fun to dance to. Anyway, the DJ says it’s the next _Macarena_. He’s been saying that for going on two weeks now, and AFAIK the song hasn’t caught on yet. Have you heard it? Are they dancing to it in clubs? (I’m a little old to be going to clubs, thankyouverymuch :)) Does it have its own dance, like the _Macarena_? Discuss. ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2002, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-heard-the-ketchup-song/133097/2 "2002-10-20T14:27:03Z")
They’re not Puerto Rican, they’re Spanish. There’s already [a Pit thread about it](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=140141). Sadly it’s No.1 in the charts here in the UK due to people having been infected by it on holiday and your thread title has put the chorus _back in my head again_. I will find a way of making you pay very dearly for that **rastahomie**!!! ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2002, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-heard-the-ketchup-song/133097/3 "2002-10-20T14:33:37Z")
In case anyone needs more info, this is from the BBC’s pop page… > [@](#): > > Las Ketchup? Who on earth are Las Ketchup, we hear you cry. Well, they’re a trio of singing Spanish sisters - Pilar, Lola and Lucia. And why are they called Las Ketchup? Because they are the daughters of a famous flamenco guitarist called Tomate! ‘Asereje’ was a huge summer hit all across the Spanish speaking world, and now it’s breaking out into the English speaking charts too. The lyrics make fun of a Spanish guy who is a fan of an English song and sings along with it. But because he doesn’t know the words he spouts gibberish. Which is what the song sounds like to us. How long before English folk are singing gibberish to a Spanish tune about a spaniard who spouts gibberish to an English tune… my head hurts. I don’t know if the English language song is real or not, but apparently it’s supposed to be a hip hop track. ---
**Author:** ![CBEscapee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@CBEscapee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBEscapee)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2002, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-heard-the-ketchup-song/133097/4 "2002-10-20T14:34:49Z")
It’s called **Acereje** and it _has_ caught on bigtime here in Mexico. Not the level of _Macarena_ but it gets lots of airplay and it’s played in the clubs. The video runs a lot on TV. My 2 year old niece sings it and does all of the hand jestures. It is pretty annoying ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2002, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-heard-the-ketchup-song/133097/5 "2002-10-20T14:56:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by everton \* > \*\*I don’t know if the English language song is real or not, but apparently it’s supposed to be a hip hop track. \*\* It sounds an awful lot like what they’re saying he’s (poorly) singing is “Rapper’s Delight”, that quarter-hour long grand-daddy of hip-hop. A hip hop, a hippie to the hippie the hip hip hop you don’t stop… ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2002, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-heard-the-ketchup-song/133097/6 "2002-10-20T15:09:56Z")
Yes, the chorus to the song is a mangled version of _Rapper’s Delight_. The lyrics are supposedly about a man who enjoys hip-hop, especially that song, even though he doesn’t know what it means. [Official U.S. site of Las Ketchup](http://www.columbiarecords.com/lasketchup/index2.html) (They’re the daughters of a guitar player called Tomate. Get it?) Listen to a snippet of “Acereje/The Ketchup Song (Hey Hah)” and see the music video, which features the whole song. [Do the Ketchup!](http://web.tcpalm.com/specialreports/ketchupdance/ketchupflash.shtml) (No, it’s nothing like the Hustle.) An animated tutorial on the dance that goes with the song. Requires Macromedia Flash. ---
**Author:** ![Skip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@Skip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skip)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2002, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-heard-the-ketchup-song/133097/7 "2002-10-20T16:31:21Z")
Soon to be heard at **every** wedding, bar/bat mitzvah, 50th birthday bash, \