Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez
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{{Short description|1974 song by Juan Gabriel}}
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{{Infobox song
| name = Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez
| cover = Juan gabriel se me olvido otra vez.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Juan Gabriel
| album = Juan Gabriel con el Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán
| B-side = "Ases y Tercia de Reyes"
| released = 1975
| studio =
| genre = Ranchera
| length = {{duration|m=2|s=57}}
| label = RCA
| writer = Juan Gabriel
| producer =
| prev_title =
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| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|QoHc2C6R18w|"Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez" feat. Marco Antonio Solís}}}}
}}
"Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez" ({{trans|"I'd Forgotten Once Again"}}) is a song written and performed by Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel for his fourth studio album, Juan Gabriel con el Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán (1974). The song is a ranchera number that tells of an awaited but impossible reunion as the singer forgets he is the only one who loved the woman. It was released as the lead single from the album in 1975. The song has been listed as among Juan Gabriel's best songs according to music critics and was one of the best-performing singles of 1975 in Mexico. Gabriel has re-recorded the song twice, the first for his compilation album, Por Los Siglos (2001), and as a duet with fellow Mexican singer-songwriter Marco Antonio Solís on his 28th studio album, Los Dúo (2015).
In 1999, Mexican band Maná covered "Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez" on their second live album-, MTV Unplugged. Mana's rendition is performed as a reggae-tinged cumbia song. Their version was also received positive reactions from music critics and won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 2000. Commercially, Mana's cover peaked at numbers five and four on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs and Latin Pop Airplay charts in the United States, respectively.
Background and composition
Since his debut album El Alma Joven (1971), Juan Gabriel immediately established himself as a popular Mexican singer. Juan Gabriel followed up with two albums, El Alma Joven II (1972) and El Alma Joven III (1973).{{cite book |last1=Poniatowska |first1=Elena |title=Todo México |date=1990 |publisher=Editorial Diana |location=Mexico |isbn=9681330692 |page=145 |edition=1}} In 1974, the artist released his album of mariachi songs Juan Gabriel con el Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, in a collaboration with Vargas de Tecalitlán.{{cite book |last1=Gonzalez |first1=Eladio Rodulfo |title=Grandes Intérpretes del Bolero |year= 2019 |publisher=Juan Rodulfo |isbn=978-1-0906-8930-6 |page=411 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CI1UEAAAQBAJ&dq=juan%20gabriel%20%22se%20me%20olvido%22%20mariachi%20vargas&pg=PA411 |access-date=7 November 2022 |language=es|via=Google Books}} As with the previous albums, Juan Gabriel composed all the tracks on the record including "Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez".{{cite web |title=Juan Gabriel – Juan Gabriel con el Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan Album Reviews, Songs & More |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/juan-gabriel-con-el-mariachi-vargas-de-tecalitlan-mw0000623874 |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=7 November 2022}} A ranchera song, it tells of a "jilted lover waits in sad futility 'in the same town and with the same people, so that when you come back you won't find anything out of place'. But reunion is impossible: 'I'd forgotten once again that it was only me who loved you.'"{{cite news |title=Mexico's Mirror; Juan Gabriel |newspaper=The Economist |date=10 September 2006 |volume=420 |issue=9006 |page=82 |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1817949198 |access-date=7 November 2022 |issn=0013-0613|id={{ProQuest|1817949198}} |url-access=subscription}}
Promotion and reception
"Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez" was released as the album's lead single in 1975 by RCA.{{cite AV media notes | title=Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez |year=1975| publisher=RCA|location=United States|id= DKA0-9289}} Juan Gabriel performed the song live at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in 1990 and the performance was included on his first live album Juan Gabriel en el Palacio de Bellas Artes (1990).{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/en-el-palacio-de-bellas-artes-mw0000878726|title=En el Palacio de Bellas Artes|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=13 August 2013}} He re-recorded the track on his 2001 compilation album Por Los Siglos and again in 2015 with fellow Mexican singer-songwriter Marco Antonio Solís on Juan Gabriel's vocal duet album Los Dúo.{{cite news |last1=Castillo |first1=Alberto |title=Pone mas sabor a sus exitos |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/315738006 |access-date=7 November 2022 |work=El Norte |date=10 October 2001 |page=5 |id={{ProQuest|315738006}} |language=es|url-access=subscription}} According to the book Grandes Intérpretes del Bolero (2019) by Eladio Rodulfo Gonzalez, it has become one of the most-well known ranchera songs in the world. Univision listed the track as "one of the 13 songs you are obligated to hear".{{cite web |title=Las 13 canciones más bonitas de Juan Gabriel que estás obligado a escuchar |url=https://www.univision.com/entretenimiento/cultura-pop/las-13-canciones-mas-bonitas-de-juan-gabriel-que-estas-obligado-a-escuchar |publisher=Univision |access-date=7 November 2022 |language=spanish |date=2 May 2015}} E! contributor Vanessa Odreman ranked "Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez" as Juan Gabriel's 10th best song.{{cite web |last1=Odreman |first1=Vanessas |title=Top 10 de las mejores canciones de Juan Gabriel|url=https://www.eonline.com/mx/news/790591/top-10-de-las-mejores-canciones-de-juan-gabriel-videos |publisher=E! |access-date=7 November 2022 |language=es |date=28 August 2016}} Antonieta Ramos of Heraldo USA cited the track as one of the 10 songs "for a heartbreak".{{cite web |last1=Ramos |first1=Antoneita |title=Juan Gabriel: Las 10 canciones del Divo de Juárez para cuando tienes el corazón ROTO |url=https://www.heraldousa.com/entretenimiento/2021/8/28/juan-gabriel-las-10-canciones-del-divo-de-juarez-para-cuando-tienes-el-corazon-roto-6188.html |website=Heraldo USA |access-date=7 November 2022 |language=spanish |date=28 August 2021}} The duet version was praised by AllMusic's Thom Jurek as a "lovely ballad".{{cite web |last1=Jurek |first1=Thom |title=Juan Gabriel – Los Dúo Album Reviews, Songs & More |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/los-dúo-mw0002784937 |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=16 November 2022}} Commercially, the track became one of the best-performing songs of 1975 in Mexico.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H1Dy_LrCTPUC&pg=PA128|title=Rock impop: El rock mexicano en la radio Top 40|language=es|last=Galván|first=Hugo|year=2013|page=128|access-date=9 October 2013|via=Google Books}}
Formats and track listings
Maná version
{{Infobox song
| name = Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez
| cover = Mana se me olvido otra vez.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Maná
| album = MTV Unplugged
| released = {{startdate|df=yes|1999|05|21}}
| recorded = 9 March 1999
| venue = Miami Broadcast Center, Miami, Florida
| genre =
| length = {{duration|m=3|s=43}}
| label = WEA Latina
| writer = Juan Gabriel
| producer =
| prev_title = Como Te Extraño Corazón
| prev_year = 1998
| next_title = Te Solte La Rienda
| next_year = 1999
}}
In 1999, Mexican band Maná performed a rendition of "Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez" on their second live album MTV Unplugged. "Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez" is one of the three cover songs in the album along with "Te Solte La Rienda" by José Alfredo Jiménez and "Desapariciones" by Rubén Blades.{{cite news |last1=Camarena |first1=Ricardo |title=Mana desenchufa sus instrumentos: El disco – ProQuest |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/368380657 |access-date=8 November 2022 |work=La Opinión |date=10 May 1999 |page=5D |id={{ProQuest|368380657}} |language=es}} The session was recorded at the Miami Broadcast Center in Florida on 24 March 1999. The record was produced by band members Fher Olvera and Alex González.{{cite web |title=Maná – MTV Unplugged (Video) Album Reviews, Songs & More |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/mtv-unplugged-video--mw0003366477 |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=8 November 2022}} Click on the back cover. Mana's cover of the song is performed as a "reggae-tinged" cumbia track.{{cite news |last1=Burr |first1=Ramiro |title=Mana Finds Success in Approach |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/261958872 |access-date=16 November 2022 |work=San Antonio Express-News |date=28 July 1999 |page=1G |id={{ProQuest|261958872}} |quote=Again, Mana retools a slow, romantic ballad – this time into a reggae-tinged cumbia.|url-access=subscription}} "Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez" was released as the album's lead single by WEA Latina on 21 May 1999.{{cite news |title=No se le vaya a olvidar |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/374343679 |access-date=7 November 2022 |work=Mural |date=22 May 1999 |page=1 | id={{ProQuest|374343679}} |language=es|url-access=subscription}}
Ricardo Camarena of La Opinión called the performance of the track "stupendous and rhythmic". The Houston Chronicle critic Ramiro Burr remarked that the band makes "raucous takes" of both "Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez" and "Te Solté la Rienda".{{cite news |last1=Burr |first1=Ramiro |title=New CDs coming from Los Tigres, Mana, Jay Perez, Intocable |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/395649041 |access-date=16 November 2022 |work=Houston Chronicle |date=4 July 1999 |page=7 |id={{ProQuest|395649041}} |quote=The CD also highlights the band's raucous takes on songs by Juan Gabriel (Se Me Olvido Otra Vez) and Jose Alfredo Jimenez (Te Solte las Riendas).|url-access=subscription}} A writer for Radio Programas del Perú listed Maná's rendition as one of the "10 Juan Gabriel Songs That Are Hits by Other Artists".{{cite web |title=10 canciones de Juan Gabriel que son éxitos en voces de otros artistas |url=https://rpp.pe/musica/mas-musica/youtube-canciones-de-juan-gabriel-que-son-exitos-en-voces-de-otros-artistas-noticia-1069799?ref=rpp |publisher=Radio Programas del Perú |access-date=8 November 2022 |language=es |date=28 August 2019}} At the inaugural Latin Grammy Awards in 2000, "Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez" won the Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.{{cite web |title=1st Annual Latin Grammy Awards Winners |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/16/arts/1st-annual-latin-grammy-awards-winners.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=26 July 2022 |date=16 September 2000 |archive-date=10 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210710073716/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/16/arts/1st-annual-latin-grammy-awards-winners.html |url-status=live }} It was recognized as one of the best-performing songs of the year at the ASCAP Latin Awards under the pop/ballad category in 2000.{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PA8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA17|title=ASCAP Congratulates Our 2000 'El Premio' Winners|magazine=Billboard|date=20 May 2000|volume=112|issue=21|page=16|access-date=5 May 2012|archive-date=20 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220720220400/https://books.google.com/books?id=PA8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA17|url-status=live|via=Google Books}} Commercially, Mana's rendition peaked at numbers five and four on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs and Latin Pop Airplay charts in the US, respectively.
=Charts=
==Weekly charts==
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+Chart performance for "Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez" |
| Chart (1999)
!Peak |
|---|
| {{singlechart|Billboardlatinsongs|5|artist=Mana|rowheader=true|access-date=4 October 2012|refname="latinsongs"}} |
| {{singlechart|Billboardlatinpopsongs|4|artist=Mana|rowheader=true|access-date=4 October 2012|refname="latinpop"}} |
==Year-end charts==
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders " style="text-align:center;"
|+1999 year-end chart performance for "Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez" |
| scope="col"|Chart (1999)
!scope="col"|Position |
|---|
| scope="row"|US Hot Latin Songs (Billboard){{cite magazine|title=1999: The Year in Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9w0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=SL680-PA76|volume=111|issue=52|pages=76, 78|magazine=Billboard|date=25 December 1999|access-date=10 December 2011|archive-date=15 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220515191717/https://books.google.com/books?id=9w0EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22no+me+ames%22|url-status=live|via=Google Books}}
|25 |
| scope="row"|US Latin Pop Airplay (Billboard)
|13 |
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Juan Gabriel}}
{{Maná}}
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Category:Marco Antonio Solís songs
Category:Songs written by Juan Gabriel
Category:Latin Grammy Award for Best Pop Album by a Duo or Group with Vocals