How a culture of dehumanization and denial keeps ICE and Border Patrol personnel “at war with an enemy that does not fight back.”
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How a culture of dehumanization and denial keeps ICE and Border Patrol personnel “at war with an enemy that does not fight back.”
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Mexican music is incredibly diverse. I like old-school folk so Chavela Vargas (born Costa Rican but “Mexicans are born wherever they damn well want”) is my jam. Natalia LaFourcade also is great, once she stopped trying to be a teeny bopper. Julieta Venegas … there’s some more but I’d have to log into Deezer to remember their names.
That said, this is semi-nichey stuff; there’s an oppressively homogenous vaquero music (ranchero?), of which the only good thing I can say is that it is not reggaeton.
I was trying so hard to remember “vaquero”. Thanks.
If it helps it’s the professionalization of vaca, or cow–cowboy.
Met a relationship-starved Mexican woman on a language exchange app (a common affliction for the venue) and she was so sick of dating vaqueros, every one of them in tight jeans with a big buckle, western shit, and cowboy hat…
Meanwhile, I’m white af and love rolling down the street bumping Nortec (electro Norteñas) once in a while. Hilariously fun music. But yeah, it’s a weird take on a weird genre of campy music rooted in polka.
I think classic ranchera is hard to hate (i.e. Vicente Fernandez)
I also quite like Corridos Tumbados despite the controversy and think most people can get into that.
Mexican cumbia isn’t quite as cool as Peruvian space cumbia, but there are some heavy hitters from Mexico.
You make me want to make a post in the pirate forum about how to download albums without opening a port like you do in soulseek. Someone sent me a link to a web-based pirate–search, click the album, and download the whole thing, easy peasy, but I don’t even know what search term to use…