tell me
― Salted gnocchimole (admrl), Friday, 2 July 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
She's awesome, mostly. Earliest cds were less pop. Ocassionally she's a bit singer/songwriter standard, but she has created some stunning pop melodies over the years. I like her live too. Will post specifics re individual cds later. Unperson and Matt/Haiku/begs to differ- whatever his name is here now to thread...
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 July 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
She's co-written with Natalia Lafourcade too, who I also like.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 2 July 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
"Algo Está Cambiando" from the MTV set is one of my favorite songs ever.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 2 July 2010 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/04/two-pop-stars-try-to-revive-mexicos-good-old-days-in-song-at-least/275085/
Nice piece on the new albums from Venegas and Lafourcade
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 May 2013 13:11 (ten years ago) link
Listened to the new Venegas last night-- it's ok, though on first listen I did not hear any of the great unique melodic choruses she has offered on earlier efforts. Bogart in that Atlantic piece is right that she's using some old-school new wavey synth sounds on it.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 May 2013 16:48 (ten years ago) link
I haven't loved one of her albums since Bueninvento, though I've always found something to like about each one. And I enjoyed interviewing her a few years ago.
― 誤訳侮辱, Friday, 10 May 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
I've seen her live twice and enjoyed both gigs a lot.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 May 2013 18:12 (ten years ago) link
Bogart's Atlantic piece nicely addresses arguments re class and music
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 May 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
I still need to listen to the Lafourcade pop take on a legend:
But her current album, Mujer Divina, is a collection of duets covering songs written by the Mexican composer Agustín Lara (1897-1970), one of the towering icons of 20th-century popular music
― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 May 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
Julieta Vengaboys
― how's life, Monday, 13 May 2013 20:14 (ten years ago) link
So glad that J.Venegas is returning to Bueninvento-style accordion-pop, even if it never quite gets to avant-garde the way it could if she tried. She's getting really quite wonderful at melodies, and her videos have always been quite bizarre (the hanging-on-a-hook one, the models-farting-butterflies one). Love her so, and Los Momentos is excellent.
― @GracieLoPan #fyi (Display Name (this cannot be changed):), Monday, 13 May 2013 21:45 (ten years ago) link
Count me as another one who quickly gave up after the first two (great) albums. This used to be my jam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxhRuqgiFt0
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 May 2013 23:19 (ten years ago) link
So glad that J.Venegas is returning to Bueninvento-style accordion-pop,
I don't quite agree with this. She's been doing accordion-style pop for years now, I just think the melodies on the recent ones were just more homogenous indie-pop-rock and yes unique than ones she did earlier (and different from the harder-edged more almost punky stuff she did way back when). But the latest one on my 2nd listen last night does seem more interesting than the last few.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 14:01 (ten years ago) link
and yes, LESS unique
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 14:02 (ten years ago) link
The Lafourcade duets album is kinda nice. She has a similar pop style to Venegas. Spotify lists it as a 2012 release, but Bogart reviewed it at the Atlantic asif it was 2013. Maybe it was just released in the US in 2013, or maybe Spotify is wrong.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link
Ok, the newest Venegas album sounded better earlier this morning. Maybe it is her comeback album.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 14:52 (ten years ago) link
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade/2013/09/julieta_venegas_interview_los_momentos_miami_2013.php
http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2013/10/01/1580225/julieta-venegas-le-canta-a-los.html
She's working with a different producer and uses lots of synth and piano beats. But I think she always composes on piano and then decides whether to add accordion or other instruments.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 5 October 2013 19:09 (ten years ago) link
She was in Miami last night I think, coming to NYC in a day or 2 and to DC October 10th
Looking forward to DC area show in Maryland Thursday night. Smaller 5 piece band for this tour
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 19:11 (ten years ago) link
Liking the new album even more. Just interviewed her
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 October 2013 11:39 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2013/10/10/julieta-venegas-on-tonights-fillmore-show-synthesizers-and-norteno-music/
3rd time I've seen her. A good show with her switching back and forth from accordion to keyboard to guitar; supported by a good band and with nice visuals showing on a screen behind them. She's gonna be in Chicago shortly
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 October 2013 04:32 (ten years ago) link
Melodies are in my head a day later (alright not all of the songs were great, but the best of them. Wow)
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 October 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
http://clclt.com/charlotte/julieta-venegas-shifts-perspective/Content?oid=3232854
― curmudgeon, Friday, 11 October 2013 19:07 (ten years ago) link
Her current musical preferences are wide, from Julia Holter and Julianna Baldwin to Café Tacvba. Venegas also reads a lot. “I like poetry, but I also read novelties ... Now I am into Ovidio!” Venegas said.
http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/article/20130918/ENTERTAINMENT04/309180037/Mexican-pop-star-Julieta-Venegas-comes-Central-Valley
― curmudgeon, Monday, 14 October 2013 04:57 (ten years ago) link
New album sounds good on first listen.
― I wear my Redditor loathing with pride (ShariVari), Monday, 21 September 2015 11:55 (eight years ago) link
Oh cool. Didn't know about it. Here's Billboard re the first single, the album and mention of an upcoming tour.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/6561204/julieta-venegas-new-single-ese-camino-algo-sucede-new-album
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 September 2015 13:34 (eight years ago) link
http://www.latintimes.com/julieta-venegas-launches-today-her-new-studio-album-algo-sucede-335127
more details here
― curmudgeon, Monday, 21 September 2015 13:36 (eight years ago) link
Awesome. I really liked her first two records then sort of lost track. This will be a good excuse to revisit.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 21 September 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link
She moved to Argentina 7 years ago and works with a Chilean producer who’s into electro / club sounds on her new album
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/24/1139167794/album-review-tu-historia-by-julieta-venegas
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 December 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
https://remezcla.com/features/music/interview-julieta-venegas-talks-tu-historia-argentinian-trap/
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 15 December 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
New album didn’t wow me on first listen
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
"Eres Para Mí" (from Limón y Sal) is my current jam
― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 20:02 (eleven months ago) link
I've heard her music playing in the Mexican restaurant near my house three times now.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 20:20 (eleven months ago) link
Nice, and yeah "Eres Para Mi" is definitely a catchy one
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 00:15 (eleven months ago) link
I like her Sí! album too. My wife played me some stuff from her early days in a ska-punk band ("Tijuana No!"), which wasn't so much my thing. Looking her up, I remembered she had been featured in that Rompan Todo doc series a few years back.
― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 00:24 (eleven months ago) link