This is a tough one.
Happy New Year, everybody! I was going to answer to the first prompt only since I have already devoted one of my recent posts to rant about 2020, but after some thinking I realized that by answering the first prompt I would be forced to addressing the second one, so here we go, please bear with me.
I can't think of a single memorable song produced in 2020 by mainstream Latino singers or bands. Every year for as long as I can remember there have been a bunch of catchy songs played by all radio stations, on buses, in every household and they all end up being sung and danced (I'm mostly thinking about latino genres) by most people.
2020 was such a crappy year that not a single catchy song was made (I may be wrong, I might have missed something, but how about all people around? all radio stations?).
2020 was such a crappy year for latino music that Bad Bunny was named Composer of the Year by ASCAP. I mean, Bad fucking Bunny! even people who love reggaeton and latin trap were shocked by such a disgraceful choice.
In any case, if we have followed the evolution of the music market, we should not be surprised. After all, this was the best song of the year according to the same "organization".
I must appologize to all of you for doing this, but here's a very "praised" sample of this "composer of the year".
first all-Spanish-language album to top the US Billboard 200 and generated the Billboard Global 200 number-one single "Dakiti". He became the first non-English language act to be Spotify's most streamed artist of the year (2020).
An insult to the spanish language, even if you're not a conservative purist (and don't get me started on the moral issues, and I am not a moralist).
I am hoping that the remaining 9 years of this decade are "illegitimate chuildren" of this grotesque year; if the upcoming years will bear any resemblance to their parent year humanity is in serious trouble.
I wrote four beautiful songs this year.😍🎼🎵
And the world is missing them.😱😁Mr. @hlezama, you're wrong.🤔
LOL! Of course, sweetie. I may be biased to affirm this, but your songs would top any billboard in a paralell world where real talent and humanquality is valued.
The music world of today is driven by some sickening logic according to which the most polemic the figure they promote is, the better. Allegedly that's what people want. People, on the other hand, end up consuming that product (mostly because that's what gets promoted/exposed/available) and that reinforces the twisted logic.
Of course, audiences are the ultimate culprit. If the youth did not consume the bad-bunny-type of musical crap, we would not have a bad bunny (or any similar misfit, for that matter).
Very true! Our son won't be listening to any of that gutter trash excuse for music.
Good for you and him. Most parents here refrain from doing the right thing because it makes them look like oppressors, or because kids will be exposed anyway. On other matters, though, parents here can be very intrusive and overprotective, especially when they should let kids be themselves and do what is right and expected of them. It's an upside down world
Lol, sums up 2020 I think! 😀
I only just made a comment to bashadow on this post about the state of affairs of modern music...Most is simply manufactured rubbish designed to chart on some top 40 list somewhere. It's total shit. One doesn't need instruments of a good voice, nor even a well-written song...Just a computer and some dick head dumb enough to buy the track.
I like this last line very much sir. I concur.
!ENGAGE 25
Now that I think about it, I should have said adopted children, instead of "illegitimate". Illegitimacy in parenthood still bears the "burden" of genetic afiliation.
"Manufacture" is a good word to explain what have become social trends, and it applies to msot cultural things these days. It happens with movies and especially with politicians. Those with the money and the PR and social media machinery can create poducts people allegedly "need" and can't live without.
I think we are witnessing a similar operation with the pandemic business. Everything, from the science behind it, the protocols, policies/measures, and now the vaccines are up for auction. The best bidder gets to impose the most appealing truth, regardless of how farfetched or derisive it may be; like affirming that Maradona was the best soccer player ever or Che Guevara the most inspiring revolutionary.
Manufactured...Everything is these days, from politicians, to ideals and even people's own independent thought as that's often created through the propaganda forced down people's throats at every turn...That they swallow down with glee and ignorance.
Nothing seems organic anymore...It's all contrived, created and controlled.
Pathetic really, but humanity has allowed it through lack of action. The powers at the top pull the strings and keep feeding us the shit they want us to eat removing freedom of thought a little more each day and so the population focuses on the things they think they are choosing and those things cement the process in place and create new platforms of reality.
Well put here. I think lots of us here could sit down for many weeks with plenty of beers and come to all of these same points. Complete fabrication of society that's going on. They are also modifying history left and right. Tearing down statues and trying to make things be forgotten. Even the centers for disease control in America are modifying their historical records. The Tuskegee experiment they did many years ago is now "under review" for accuracy when the truth community, the "conspiracy theorists" have known about it and been talking about it for years. There's a long line of this shit happening.
I have a little solace knowing that so many of the people plugged into this matrix of lies and farce are so deep that if something were to happen like a true disaster like a meteor strike or something, they are defenseless and hopeless. They would turn to the people who have been trying to just live their lives peacefully away from all the shit they are forcing down our throats from their thrones on high. Probably won't happen but so many are clueless, completely clueless.
You're right. However, I think that for many people around the world believing in sugar-coated official versions is a confortable choice, like ignoring some hard family truths and ruling them out of the conversations. They know it is true, but believing it is not feels better.
ENGAGEtokens.Preach man! Lol. I love listening to two local radio stations around here that play Latino music when I'm in the car. I'm not good at Spanish so I don't know the words or artists but this year there wasn't indeed any songs that I remember being played that seemed new and were in the playlist often. I'll have to get some recommendations from you though for some artists that make good Bachata music. Love that stuff! I bought a truck many years ago and the guy I bought it from was Latino and he left his CD's in the truck when I took it. I didn't notice it for about 6 months so at that point I don't remember who it was so I could give them back so I listened to them and loved it! I don't know the songs, artists or genres of the songs but since then I'm always trying to figure it out so I can get some of the songs back lol. I love the songs that have that small guitar in it, at least it looks and sounds small in my head. Not sure what it's like in real life.
Let's hope 2020 is the bottom of the barrel for the rest of the decade. We can go up from here, I hope!
Lol! You made me remember when I sold my car in the States because we had to come back to this hell. I was sure I had gotten everything out of it, but then I remember some of my favorite CDs were left behind. I hope the lady I sold it to had the same good impression and enjoyed the music.
We too love bachata. Juan Luis Guerra was for decades the best representative of the genre. He turned his music a bit religious after a conversion, but he kept it lively and clever. Of the new guys Romeo Santos has produced some great songs that apeal both to the mature audiences and the young kids who are more into the sexualized music. Those two on the top of my head, but again, it has been a low year for good latino music and for much of what we expect from life.
Let's see what 2021 brings (it did not start well for venezuelan politics. history teacher will have a hell of a time trying to explain childen 50 years from now what they hell we were doing with this country).