"Eres" (English: "You Are") is a song by Mexican band
Café Tacuba
Café Tacuba (), stylized as Café Tacvba, is a band from Naucalpan de Juárez, State of Mexico. The group gained popularity in the early 1990s. They were founded in 1989, before they had the current lineup of Rubén Albarrán, Rubén Isaac Albar ...
from their fifth studio album '' Cuatro Caminos'' (2003). The song was written by Emmanuel del Real and was produced by Argentine producer
Gustavo Santaolalla
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. It was released on 11 November 2003 through Universal Music México as the album's third single following "Eo" and "Cero y Uno".
The song featured on the band's first live album '' Un Viaje'' (2005), as well as their third, '' Un Segundo MTV Unplugged'' (2019), recorded at the Sala Nezahualcóyotl in the
National Autonomous University of Mexico
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Alejandro Sanz
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's "No Es Lo Mismo" and
Draco Rosa
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According to the band, the song is a "total declaration of love", specifically the "high school love", hence, the theme of the music video for the song. José Alfredo Rangel Arroyo, the band's guitarist, said that the song, alongside "Ingrata", was "one of the most romantic songs by Café Tacuba", commenting that "people have fallen in love to the song, have tattoed the lyrics..., that's when one realizes that some topics are part of the people, of their lives, of their body".
In a retrospective of the album '' Cuatro Caminos'' for its fifteenth anniversary, José Marr from ''IndieRocks!'' wrote that the song would be the one for which Emmanuel del Real's voice and role as a songwriter in the band will be remembered, likening the song to a version in Spanish of
Oasis
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Pitchfork
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'', Alexander Lloyd Linhardt wrote that "Eres" is "unabashedly classic 70s rock, a sun-splattered villa with the best Spanish guitar line in a rock song since Naked Raygun's "Vanilla Blue"". On another review of the album, Enrique Lavin for ''
Blender
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'' called the song alongside "Encantamiento", a "timeless pop song that speaks about urban existentialism". Lauren Cocking from ''Culture Trip'' included the song in a list of thirteen songs that serve as an introduction for the band, describing "Eres" as "perhaps the most emblematic of all the Café Tacuba songs" and a "modern classic of a love song".
Music video
The music video was directed by Mexican director Rogelio Sikander and produced by Rodrigo Valdés from the company ''Los Maestros'', the band contacted Sikander to direct the video after watching his previous work in Molotov's "Here We Kum" and Zoé's "Peace and Love", the video featured cinematography by Gerardo Madrazo and drawings Daniel Guzmán and José Luis Sánchez Rul, which were animated using the software Shake.
The video shows a teenager (Emmanuel Vega) who is in love with one of his classmates (Berenice Escandon) but is unable to confess it to her, as the video progresses a series of drawings begin to appear all over the classroom filling with color a previously black and white video, expressing the love he feels for her matching with the romantic lyrics of the song, the video ends with him smiling at the girl as the drawings begin to disappear.
As of 2021, the video has over 400 million views on
YouTube
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. The video was nominated for the
Latin Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video
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