what is colitas in the hotel california song
Hotel California The term "colitas" in the first stanza ("warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air") has been interpreted as a sexual slang or a reference to marijuana.[43] "Colitas" means "little tails" in Spanish; in Mexican slang it refers to buds of the cannabis (marijuana) plant.[44][45] According to Glenn Frey, the "warm smell" is "colitas...it means little tails, the very top of the plant."[46] The Eagles' manager Irving Azoff appears to lend support to the marijuana hypothesis,[47] however, Felder said: "The colitas is a plant that grows in the desert that blooms at night, and it has this kind of pungent, almost funky smell. Don Henley came up with a lot of the lyrics for that song, and he came up with colitas."[43]