The “Otro Trago” Remix is better than the original , but yeah it may not be the best choice to use to make the point re reggaeton and Latin Grammys choices
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 17 November 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
Rolling Stone writer Esposito and headline re announcement of main Grammys--
Latin Music Is Being Quarantined at the 2020 GrammysRosalía is the only Spanish-language artist to break into a general category — the rest are castaways
Things seemed to look up in 2019 when “I Like It,” the Latin trap crossover hit by Cardi B, J Balvin and Bad Bunny, received the nomination for Record of the Year. But in spite of its skyrocketing revenue and growing ubiquity in anglophone pop culture — with support from bicultural Latina superstars like Cardi, Camila Cabello and Selena Gomez — Latin music will be excluded from the most prestigious Grammys categories, which include Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Album of the Year.
In 2020, Catalan avant-pop star Rosalía will be the only Spanish-language recording artist to break into the general category that is Best New Artist. Though the Academy has previously honored artists who’ve performed in Spanish, such as Puerto Rican rocker José Feliciano and Ecuadorian-American diva Christina Aguilera, the Best New Artist award has historically gone to those who primarily record in English. A win for Rosalía in this category would be an unprecedented win for Spain, as well as the Latin music industry, which has embraced her over the last two years.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 November 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-latin/latin-music-2020-grammys-rosalia-bad-bunny-j-balvin-914642/
https://remezcla.com/lists/music/nuevo-noise-12-songs/
So much music to keep up with
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
yes
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 27 November 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
Not really seeing Latinx acts on many year end lists. Not many Spain acts either, ha ( she has made a few).
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
So someone opened a new jazz club in Baltimore recently and they're busy bringing acts to town-- NYC Latin jazz pianist Eddie Palmieri is there tonight/Thursday through Sunday; and he's gonna be back there in 2 weeks for 4 nights as well.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 December 2019 05:21 (four years ago) link
Caramanica in NY Times lists Bad Bunny and Romeo Santos on his year end list. Jon Pareles has ILe on his.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 6 December 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
https://remezcla.com/lists/music/50-best-songs-by-latinos-in-2019/
A little of everything but mainly reggaeton
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
Ozuna’s new album is called Nibiru. I wasn’t feeling the string of singles that preceded it all that much and have been enjoying him more on his features this year, but the album is sounding really good.
Loving the skippy beat in “Fantasía” (there’s not enough of it actually): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYwzpYh7dio
Fun track with Diddy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNKnxO7wAeUOzuna ft. Diddy & DJ Snake • Eres Top (working title “I Need A Top, Part 2”)
(pretty sure this is one of those Illuminati videos I keep hearing about)
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 12 December 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
Will give new Ozuna a listen. Also need to look at :
https://www.npr.org/2019/12/11/778227075/a-survey-of-the-year-in-latin-music-whatever-that-means
― curmudgeon, Friday, 13 December 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
More top notch reggaeton:Lalo Ebratt’s Numerología EP is lots of fun, in a Afro-Latino post-“One Dance” kind of way.“Milkshake”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na8MZZU8haY
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 14 December 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
that's quite nice
― dyl, Saturday, 14 December 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
Since we can never read enough discussion of Rosalia versus Latinx artists, here’s J Shepherd from the Slate music crit roundtable :
This is not to say that “authenticity” is the goal or even all that desirable as a flat concept, but when Rosalía is better known by mainstream English publications than Anitta or Natti Natasha or Amara La Negra or Karol G or even Becky G, the system has either gone wonky or is doing exactly what it was meant to.
https://slate.com/culture/2019/12/best-music-2019-fka-twigs-solange-holly-herndon.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
I might grant more weight to her statement if Googling her name paired with any of those artists' names yielded results. You can't complain that no one's writing about these artists if you're not writing about them either.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
(She's an editor at Jezebel. If she wanted to get something out there, she could. The last time she wrote about Amara La Negra was in 2015.)
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
As editor, maybe she assigned someone else to write about them.
I wrote up a Karol G preview in 2017 for the Washington DC City Paper, and did Bad Bunny, J Balvin, & Maluma this year. There’s not too much English language coverage of Latinx music in DC area
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 December 2019 00:19 (four years ago) link
https://remezcla.com/lists/music/10-best-latino-latin-american-spanish-albums-of-year-2019/
Less "urbano" than I expected, but still strongly represented. 1.'This Is How You Smile' by Helado Negro;2. 'Oasis' by Bad Bunny & J Balvin; 3. 'Ahomale' by Combo Chimbita; 4.'Almadura' by iLe;5.'Sueños' by Sech; 6.'Foam' by Divino Niño; 7. 'Soy Piedra' by Belafonte Sensacional;8.'Sombrou Dúvida' by Boogarins; 9.'System' by Debit ; 10-Joterías Bobas’ by Hidrogenesse
Not really seeing many Latin jazz albums on lists. The genre seemed formulaic years ago, but still hangs on. Pancho Sanchez did a Coltrane tribute I see. The NPR jazz critics poll usually has a separate Latin jazz category, but the 2019 poll is not posted yet.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 January 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link
Time to go to the 2020 thread:
Rolling Afro-Latin Music 2020: Reggaeton, Salsa, Bomba, Latin Jazz, Bachata, Merengue, Urbano and more Latinx
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 January 2020 16:09 (four years ago) link