Persiana Americana

Persiana Americana (transl. American Curtain) is a song by Argentine rock band Soda Stereo that was released as a single and as the first track of the B side in their 1986 album Signos.

The song was composed by Gustavo Cerati along with help of film director Jorge Daffunchio. Cerati and Daffunchio met through a radio contest where the participants sent lyrics to musicians to include them in their next album. Cerati rejected the initial lyrics, as he thought they were too hard to musicalize. Daffunchio later sent Cerati more lyrics and organized meetings where they would finish Persiana Americana. Daffunchio final lyrics were made with inspiration of the films Body Double (1984) and Dressed To Kill (1980), making the song about a voyeur.

Persiana Americana was released as a single in 1987 with its B side being No Existes, other releases were made as a single sided single and as the B side to Sobredosis de TV.

American magazine ranked it in 7th place in their list of the best 500 songs of Ibero-American rock. It was ranked 31st in Rolling Stone and MTV's Los 100 Hits del Rock Argentino from 2002.