@RehnSturm256 @hideki latin music can be pretty nice sounding

@supersid333 @RehnSturm256

I am Latin and i literally don't know what you guys are talking about lel

@hideki @supersid333 @RehnSturm256 I bet they're talking about reggaeton

@waifu @RehnSturm256 @supersid333

that would be pretty sad

@waifu @hideki @RehnSturm256 @supersid333

@hideki @RehnSturm256 Sorry, we're talking about Spanish music from Mexico/Latin America that some radio stations play.

@supersid333 @hideki @RehnSturm256 but you see that there are a shit ton of genres of "Spanish music from Latin America", right?

I mean, this is a somewhat old song by an Argentinian rock singer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Jqk3umKO0

@supersid333 @RehnSturm256 @hideki while this is n Afrobeat band from Chile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCZZWu9WR5s

You can agree that when you refer to both as "Latin music" you'll cause certain confusion on Latin people, right?

@RehnSturm256 @hideki @supersid333 and this is Flamenco.

Also, this guy is Spanish, he's not from Latin America, I put him here just because I felt like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oyhlad64-s

@Suzu @hideki @supersid333 uh ok, but obviously things are different in Le "melty blood pot" of America where you have the Chinese station, the Korean station, the Latin station 1, the Latin station 2, the Latin station 3-6, the rap station where they are violent, the rap station where they are horny, the rap station where they also throw in reggae, the 80s rock (safe White boomer station), the 90s pop (safe White millennial station), country (opera of the working man).

The big station I was referring to wasn't playing the songs you posted. More like the anime song I posted, or sort of like newer stuff that dirb posted.

@RehnSturm256 @hideki @supersid333 OK, I was checking the link you sent, and this is an 80's song, it's a time where "disco" and "dance" were on an all time high in Latin America. In Brazil this was already fading away and Rock was having a revival in popularity (the 80's were a time with lots of protests in Brazil, and Rock is a rhythm that works well with "protest songs"), but we still had some remanescents of this kind of music playing now and then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKaf39nCgMY

I can agree that songs like the one you posted would sound like "anime songs", but that's mostly because they sound like soft "dance" songs, which are most anime OPs, and this ones sound like they were a bit remixed to sound more like "city pop" (which is also basically "anime music - the genre"). But I think what makes YOU in particular (and most Americans, tbh) think that this kind of music would particularly work well as an anime OP is the fact the lyrics sound outlandish to you, and you probably don't understand them, or at least don't understand them well enough. So it gives the same feeling as when we hear Japanese lyrics. Trust me, when you understand the language it kinda loses it's magic...

@Suzu @hideki @supersid333 yes that's part of the joke Like calling jazz "Persona music", lol.

The foreign language does help, I will admit, but it's because most other languages EXCEPT English have more, I dunno, eloquence to them. English is a very blunt language, imo. You don't see good operas written in English, they're in Italian or even German. The fact another language can make the word & simplified meaning of "love" into something beautiful-sounding off the tongue is of note. They call Latin languages the "romantic languages" I think for a reason. English is almost ugly, even when spoken it lacks many nuances for concepts that other languages do have.

@Suzu @RehnSturm256 @hideki no I conpletely understand, but on the flipside I don't think either of us know what we're fucking listening to either

@hideki @supersid333 you don't like Latin music? The singing sounds more passionate than what you hear in rap or most 80s rock, or pop. Something about the chords they play in is more musical.

@RehnSturm256 @hideki @supersid333 I think of of them would work for 90's animes
https://youtu.be/UyQfa8dcauI?t=484

@dirb @hideki @supersid333 yes, stuff like this! The melodies and the singers make stations that play it very unique when compared to the rap, pop, or the same tired rock stations.

@dirb @RehnSturm256 @supersid333

obligated post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t-nhQqenBc

@hideki @dirb @RehnSturm256 @supersid333

considering Spain's first opening it could pass as the actual one just fine, although this one is unironically good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNsO3J6-7RI

@hideki @RehnSturm256 @supersid333 no, obligated post

cc @karolat
rember bandito;;;

@dirb @karolat @RehnSturm256 @supersid333 DELET

@dirb @hideki @RehnSturm256 @karolat @supersid333

blessed post

@RehnSturm256 @hideki I mean he could just also be living in a latin country, where they would just call the music by the genre it is rather then catch-alling it as latin music like we are.

@supersid333 @RehnSturm256

I live in Mexico.

The panorama of today's Latin music is so shitty and depresive that i literally don't know what kind of music you are talking about when you say "sounds like an anime opening" or "nice sounding", so i am very confused. That's why i asked for examples.

If you talk about earlier stuff, like mid-00s to back to the 80s then i would agree to some extent.

@hideki @supersid333 @dirb I think the quality of all music after the mid 00s is pretty shitty. I see it as a universal decline.

The "anime opening" was a little cheeky joke, but I meant it as a positive. I'm not talking about openings like from a harem anime or something really schlock-y.

For example, I literally heard a song on the Latin station that sounded like the opening to the anime Basilisk, which I liked : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6gbXIX8gMl8

@RehnSturm256 @dirb @supersid333

yeah if you go back in time you can find a lot of variety and actual quality in latin music all across america, not only in mexico of course. But if you talk about TODAY's latin music you are most of the time reduced to whatever reggaeton loop track they are playing on today's radio.

Stuff like this isn't being produced anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUH_Sr_aFy4

@hideki @dirb @supersid333 Yeah there's a reggaeton station accessible everywhere you go... I don't like it :ehhhh:. Too much electronic sound use, repetitive drums, loud or "sweaty" singing, if that makes sense. I guess it's what might be used as "club music" for dancers to, uh, grind to.

I feel like most rap, pop, and reggaeton is targeting the lowest common denominators, People who don't really like music, they just like SOUND or NOISE.

@RehnSturm256 @dirb @supersid333 Yeah, even "traditional" mexican stuff is noisy as hell, is not made to be remembered, only consumed. It's pretty sad.

@supersid333 @hideki only stations worth listening to here even the mariachi stations can be fun because they're using real instruments and dramatic vocals.

There's so many rap stations, bleah... Of course the same tired oldies & 80s rock that gets replayed ad nauseum are there on two or three stations.

Sometimes if I'm super lucky a techno-ish station with good beats comes in on the weekend evenings and I pretend like I'm driving in a Wipeout or F-Zero game