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.
