Mala has a love/hate relationship with Valentine’s Day. It’s a manufactured holiday, made to make peeps feel bad about their romantic status or lack of one. Alternatively it equates love with materialism. Pero I got excited seeing a Valentine in my mailbox, my real mailbox, not my virtual one. It made me especially happy to see that it was from an hermana in struggle ::Valentine’s Day raised fist::.

I’m not involved romantically with anyone right now pero I’m in love. In love with con my familia and con la vida and those involved in it. My friends know I’m also a sucker for old, cheesy Spanish language music and Valentine’s Day is the perfect excuse to indulge. So here’s some Roberto Carlos, a Brazilian who is celebrating 50 years in music! Que Sera de Ti was also redone as part of the soundtrack of the original El Clon novela, which yes I also shamlessly love.