Written by Krista herself
From what I’ve seen/heard so far, the music here can be quite varied.
Some people have insisted on listening to American music. I personally was thrilled to hear Alice Cooper’s "School’s Out" playing in the gym on the first day we went there. The Gimnasia plays a lot of different music, and practically all of it is Techno Remixes of English-Speaking bands such as Evanescence, Within Temptation, and the Cranberries (that one was really fun to kick box to).
Now, as for bonafide Latin American music, it actually isn’t that bad, but I don’t particularly enjoy it. When we were at Carnaval, a few of the floats actually had live bands playing on them, which was really cool. I’ve only heard a bit of their music, but the tempos are off to me and I find that it sounds….wrong.
What else is wrong with the Spanish-singing music is that, some of it is just translated American music. At the church we attend here in Montevideo, we sing “In moments like these,” but it sounds so bad because they try to squish their words into the music written. It's either sung very fast and very badly, or very elongated and very badly. I’ve decided that they just need to write their own songs, because, hey, it would sound SO much better.
3 comments:
I loved all the songs they managed to put to techno at the gym. I think my favorite combo was Greensleeves to a techno beat.
Several of the folks in our group found the good Spanish music by watching MTV and seeing what the Spanish rock was. (Super different from Tejano.)
En momentos asi...
what university are you all attending in Montevideo?
Funny how blending sometimes works. Black spirituals blend with traditional Band music and we get jazz - great. Traditional latino music blends with country and we get the abomination of tejano. Jazz blends with rage and cocaine of the beat poets of the sixties and we get rap.
The latin syncopation is a samba like weirdness that sounds off to us gringos (at least me.) Try oriental music - where they have quarter tones, the land between a note and its sharp or flat. Yuk.
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