Imo that’s why Bad Bunny’s show was great. He never addressed politics directly. He just made his culture look fun.
So now every time someone tries to rope in politics, you can just look at it on it’s face and see a good show that makes you happy if you’re open minded. So everyone who criticizes it has to work really hard to make it sound bad.
That’s smart, just make them look like total bummers, which they are. I have to say, what they are doing is really embarrassing, you can’t say you have a superior culture and then trot out the biggest losers in the world. Music and culture in the US has always been hugely derivative of roots and traditional musics, which makes sense since we were all immigrants at some points, but the struggles POC faced in this new world and the music that came from it played a massive role in the development of American music in some way or another, be it derivative or outright theft.
Not to totally detract from the point of what you’re saying, which is totally correct, but… All of everything seems to keep stepping over that it’s not just influential on American music, but it is American music. That they keep framing parts of our culture as somehow not shows that it’s just racism.
Puerto Rico has been part of the US longer than Oklahoma, new Mexico, Arizona, Alaska, or Hawaii. Puerto Rican culture is more American than whatever weird nonsense they have in Oklahoma.
Certainly, I guess I didn’t follow that all the way through. I certainly don’t remember this much flack over Gloria Estefan LMAO, and she’s CUBAN. They just really ramped up the culture war.
Imo that’s why Bad Bunny’s show was great. He never addressed politics directly. He just made his culture look fun.
So now every time someone tries to rope in politics, you can just look at it on it’s face and see a good show that makes you happy if you’re open minded. So everyone who criticizes it has to work really hard to make it sound bad.
That’s smart, just make them look like total bummers, which they are. I have to say, what they are doing is really embarrassing, you can’t say you have a superior culture and then trot out the biggest losers in the world. Music and culture in the US has always been hugely derivative of roots and traditional musics, which makes sense since we were all immigrants at some points, but the struggles POC faced in this new world and the music that came from it played a massive role in the development of American music in some way or another, be it derivative or outright theft.
Not to totally detract from the point of what you’re saying, which is totally correct, but… All of everything seems to keep stepping over that it’s not just influential on American music, but it is American music. That they keep framing parts of our culture as somehow not shows that it’s just racism.
Puerto Rico has been part of the US longer than Oklahoma, new Mexico, Arizona, Alaska, or Hawaii. Puerto Rican culture is more American than whatever weird nonsense they have in Oklahoma.
Certainly, I guess I didn’t follow that all the way through. I certainly don’t remember this much flack over Gloria Estefan LMAO, and she’s CUBAN. They just really ramped up the culture war.