The seguiriya has a bleak character, something that translates into the presence of much complaining and little lyrics. In fact, one way to identify this flamenco style is to pay attention to the achievement of ‘ayes’ that it has.

This tragic element that the seguiriya possesses may be motivated by the belief that it is a style that comes from the plañideras, women who were hired to sing in the wake. Since it was a song of mourning, death is very present in the letters of this style.

It is a song that has the basic values ​​of what is known as the jondo and pure song. His lyrics are of pain, tragic, which reflects the suffering of human relationships, love and death.

From the musical aesthetics of the seguiriya, are inspired many flamenco styles such as dry styles songs (without guitar) or malagueñas, among others.

The origin of the seguiriya has been a real headache for musicologists, but they have come to determine that the metric of this style reverses the order of the compasses of the soleá, that is, 3×4 + 6×8.