Molotov is a Mexican Rap Rock band formed in 1995, widely known because of their colorful — to say the least — way of talking about politics, the media, and sex.
They are also the main subject of the Rockumentary Gimme the Power.
The band lineup consists on:
- Ismael "Tito" Fuentes: Guitar, and vocals.
- Miguel Angel "Micky" Huidobro (AKA ''El Huidos"): Bass, Guitar, Drums and Vocals.
- Juan Francisco "Paco" Ayala: Bass, vocals, and drums when Randy is doing vocals.
- Randy Ebright: Drums, bass and vocals
The band and their music give examples of:
- Alcohol-Induced Stupidity: "Mas Vale Cholo".
- Bawdy Song: Rastamandita, "Changüich A La Chichona" and "E. Charles White", to name a few.
- Big Eater: Cerdo.
- Boastful Rap: Arre Caesar, which is about the rise and fall of the legendary Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez.
- Casting Couch: Discussed in "El Carnal de las Estrellas"
- Cover Album: Con Todo Respeto. Sort of.
- The Cover Changes the Meaning: Many instances in their covers.
- "Amateur (Rock Me Amadeus)" talks about the band’s life before ascending to fame.
- "Payaso" changes the lyrics, as far as portraying the titular guy as a Jerkass Alcoholic, with a dash of Dogged Nice Guy.
- "Diseño Rolas" (Lipss Inc's Designer Music), is about a jobless and inept musician.
- "Rap, Soda y Bohemia" (''Bohemian Rhapsody''), in which the lyrics are about killing people in many ways.
- Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: Parodied in "Mas Vale Cholo".
- Depraved Kids' Show Host: A variation in the video for "Guacala Que Rico", the presenter here is a Mister Rogers' like children's author reading a book to some kids.
- Digital Piracy Is Evil: Like many bands, thay're against music piracy, specially people who makes counterfeited CDs and sell them in the streets (something very common in Mexico). However, unlike many bands, they made ways to make people buy original CDs, for example:
- The Diss Track: Quiten el Trap, which is a song where they rail against the Reggaeton and Trap music genres, and pointing out the multiple things they perceive as wrong with that genre (such as the singers in these genres singing always in Puerto Rican accented Spanish with some English thrown in, their perceived tackiness in jewelry and clothing, the droning repetitiveness of its beats, and the repetitive yet crude lyrics), while at the same time recognizing they can't be bothered to care much about said genres.
- Double Entendre: More often than not.
- Food Songs Are Funny: Changüich A La Chichona... sort of.
- Gruesome Grandparent: Mi Agüela, which is an insufferable and overbearing grandmother.
- Heavy Meta: Lagunas Metales with the lyrics referencing many Latin American bands and singers.
- Intercourse with You: "Rastaman-dita".
- Just Before the End: "El Mundo" is an grimly hilarious take on this, with dashes of the pre-2000's Signs of the End Times that abounded in sensationalist media.
- Kent Brockman News: "Que no te haga bobo Jacobo," which takes a lot of jabs at Televisa and its main anchorman for three decades, Jacobo Zabludovsky.
- List Song: Quite a few:
- "Lagunas Metales", multiple Shout-Outs to many successful bands in English and Latin American rock music.
- "Changüich A La Chichona" and "E. Charles White": lists of double entendres.
- "No Olvidamos": All the post-1970 Mexican presidents, and a brief list of their screw-ups.
- Live Album: Desde Rusia Con Amor.
- Men Don't Cry: "Puto",
which had quite the controversy back in the day, since the word is also a pejorative word used against homosexual people. It's actually about men who sissy out of challenges. - Ode to Intoxication: Parásito, the subject of the song being a lazy excuse of a man who is perpetually drunk and stoned. And as a consequence he's chased because of debts, has been abandoned by his colleagues, and can't get it up.
- Police Are Useless / Police Brutality: Discussed in "Hit Me."
- Protest Song: Many of their songs, but the most well-known ones are "Gimme Tha Power," "Hit Me," "Voto Latino," "Frijolero," "Yofo," and more recently, "No Olvidamos".
- Rockumentary: Gimme The Power.
- Sanity Slippage Song: "Marciano", which it is an adaptation of "I've turned into a Martian" from The Misfits
- Sequel Song: "Hit Me," also called "Gimme Tha Power 2," as it carries the same themes as said song.
- Followed later on by "Yofo."
- Shave And A Haircut: The melody is featured at the end of "Marciano."
- Stout Strength: "Cerdo" The titular character is described as a very fat man, yet he was able to kill a man and break all of his bones
- Unusual Euphemism: Used excessively in the song "Changüich a la Chichona."
- Used also in "E. Charles White", in which all of the sexual euphemisms are fake names.
- Your Mom: Often done in their songs, but the most prominent example is "Chinga Tu Madre."
