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Disco, Ibiza, Locomia 2024 Movie Review Trailer

 In 2022, Movistar+ presented on its platform the documentary series Locomía, directed by the Jerez native Jorge Laplace, which we found to be a very interesting approach to a musical, but above all sociological, phenomenon that from the late 80s to almost the mid-90s was certainly surprising, the appearance of the musical group of that name, Locomía, although it can also be written Loco Mía, an “electro-pop” group that started from a double circumstance: impossible outfits, halfway between a circus clown and a Picasso-like bullfighter, with gigantic shoulder pads, clothing designed by Xavi Font, the group's ideologist; and the commercial vision of the music producer José Luis Gil (nothing to do with his namesake, the actor and voice actor, famous as Mr. Cuesta from Aquí no hay quien viva), who knew how to see the enormous potential of those boys with ambiguous androgynous aesthetics. In the review of that documentary, which was certainly very good (the documentary, not the review…...