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Los Umbrellos - No Tengo Dinero

Music Video
ArtistLos Umbrellos
SongNo Tengo Dinero
DirectorJason, Brendan
IntroNo
OutroNo
Sound MixStereo
Technical Specificationscolour - format unknown

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Synopsis

Los Umbrellos perform "No Tengo Dinero" in a brightly colored, deliberately kitschy setting built around the song's Latin-pop and dancehall attitude. One version places the trio against a red curtain, flanked by two female dancers, while another moves the performance to the Safari Inn motel in Burbank, California. The motel version adds comic visual cameos, including adult-film actor Ron Jeremy, and leans into the track's playful, novelty-hit character rather than presenting a conventional narrative.

Factoids & Trivia

  • There are two known music-video versions. The earlier version uses a simple red-curtain setup, while the alternate version was filmed at the Safari Inn motel in Burbank, California.
  • The video was shot on Super 16mm film, giving its colorful late-1990s pop imagery a distinctly filmic texture.
  • Ron Jeremy appears in the motel version. His cameo became one of the video's most frequently remembered features and helped reinforce its deliberately irreverent tone.
  • The song's main hook is based on the theme from the 1960 film "Never on Sunday," composed by Manos Hadjidakis.
  • "No Tengo Dinero" was Los Umbrellos' debut single and became the Danish group's signature track. It reached the top five in Denmark, Italy, New Zealand, and Switzerland, while also charting in the United Kingdom and the United States.
  • Los Umbrellos were a Danish project assembled around rapper Al Agami, with backing vocals and performances from Mai-Britt Vingsøe and Grith Hojfeldt.
  • The song's Spanglish lyrics and exaggerated summer-party presentation helped position it as a novelty pop hit during the Latin-pop crossover wave of the late 1990s.
  • The track was later included in Billboard's 2017 list of the 100 greatest pop songs of 1997.

Lyrics

Chorus:
Vamos a tequila, senorita, bonita
I really need it now
I ain't got no tengo dinero, caballero
Say can we work it out

First time I meet her, I wanted to greet her
Nobody could've been sweeter
I was wrong should have bought a bombita
But, now she gone
I don't know where she go
Me, I'm frustated down so, and the other men miss her
I guess I surely know that, baby
Where did she gone? where the rose bush rise up
...
© Los Umbrellos - No Tengo Dinero. This is an excerpt, provided as citation under fair-use.
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