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Where are you exposed to reggaetón?

post #1 of 23
8/9/07 at 11:23pm
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Yes, I know 99.99996% of you hate it, but humor me: since I'm pretty sure no one here watches MTV2 or spanish-language music video shows/stations, etc. I gotta ask... where are you guys exposed to reggaetón? I mean, you gotta hear it around somewhere in order to have the animosity.

I'm also curious because, like I said when I introduced myself, I run a pretty big reggaetón website and I'm curious about where non-fans hear it during their daily/weekly routines (if at all).
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post #2 of 23
8/10/07 at 12:02am
I currently live in Northeast New Jersey about two towns over from Newark, where the influx of folks from the Caribbean is starting to reach Burly Brawl levels of ridiculousness. The ready availability of homemade beef patties is a good thing. The music, not so much.
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post #3 of 23
8/10/07 at 12:15am
Doesn't "Exposed" carry a positive connotation?
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post #4 of 23
8/10/07 at 12:43am
Not necessarily.
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post #5 of 23
8/10/07 at 1:04am
What the fuck is reggaetón?
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post #6 of 23
8/10/07 at 1:23am
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Originally Posted by Andrew Collins
What the fuck is reggaetón?
Take typical music from the Caribbean, some dancehall, raggamuffin, reggae, hip-hop, crunk and a few electronic noises and push them into a blender.

It's probably the most readily-adaptable musical genre to surge in the last 15-20 years. By this I mean that you can fuse it with just about every single musical genre in existence to create different tempos and "flows" and ambience to the songs.

The lyrics are mostly simple; just imagine hip-hop dance numbers but in spanish. Harmless enough, really.
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post #7 of 23
8/10/07 at 1:26am
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Originally Posted by Justin Clark
I currently live in Northeast New Jersey about two towns over from Newark, where the influx of folks from the Caribbean is starting to reach Burly Brawl levels of ridiculousness. The ready availability of homemade beef patties is a good thing. The music, not so much.
There are now more Puerto Rican living OUTSIDE of Puerto Rico than in. We have a population of just north of 3 million, so... yeah.

I will say this though: the difference between Puerto Ricans raised in the US and raised here is staggering even to us.
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post #8 of 23
8/10/07 at 1:27am
I love reaggeaton. Most people I know hate it. I hear it all the time in my neighborhood and I always listen for any variations. It's a ground for so much to be built upon.

I play in a rockin noise-ish band and we had a reaggaeton song not too long ago, and my good friends in made in mexico are always working on incorporating it into their sound. Shit's for real. Haters on this: quit.
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post #9 of 23
8/10/07 at 1:46am
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Originally Posted by BTSMGL
Take typical music from the Caribbean, some dancehall, raggamuffin, reggae, hip-hop, crunk and a few electronic noises and push them into a blender.

It's probably the most readily-adaptable musical genre to surge in the last 15-20 years. By this I mean that you can fuse it with just about every single musical genre in existence to create different tempos and "flows" and ambience to the songs.

The lyrics are mostly simple; just imagine hip-hop dance numbers but in spanish. Harmless enough, really.
Oh, I see. I think I would be fine with it.
I don't think it exists in the Northwest though, or if it does it has to fight it's way through The Shins.
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post #10 of 23
8/10/07 at 2:07am
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Originally Posted by stump
I love reaggeaton. Most people I know hate it. I hear it all the time in my neighborhood and I always listen for any variations. It's a ground for so much to be built upon.

I play in a rockin noise-ish band and we had a reaggaeton song not too long ago, and my good friends in made in mexico are always working on incorporating it into their sound. Shit's for real. Haters on this: quit.
The Guitar Hero fanatic in me saw only that little sentence fragment, and a happy vision of a padlocked, soundproof room.
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post #11 of 23
8/10/07 at 2:26am
I hate the music. It's horribly annoying.

I want to punch my own race sometimes.
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post #12 of 23
8/10/07 at 3:18am
I'm a Spanish teacher so I try to keep up with a lot of pop music in Spanish. I'm not a huge fan of the music itself (I'm more of a punk guy myself) I recognize its importance to modern music.
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post #13 of 23
8/10/07 at 8:13am
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My room at the dorms at ISU was supposed to be for three people but I had it all to myself, so it was a huge room. I'd crank up the speakers with reggaetón on weekends and these rural-neighborhood/Iowa country-raised fellow dorm neighbors would pass by my room all the time and ask me what that music was and if I'd burn CDs for them. The girls especially loved it, although some of the guys would ask me to make a CD for them for random dorm parties.

This is 2002/2003 I'm talking about here, WAY before reggaetón started finding ground in the states (that would've been around 2005).
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post #14 of 23
8/10/07 at 12:40pm
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Originally Posted by Justin Clark
The Guitar Hero fanatic in me saw only that little sentence fragment, and a happy vision of a padlocked, soundproof room.
Yeah, I'm sure the folks in Made in Mexico are nice people but, holy shit, they are terrible.

reggaeton is also terrible. That "Gasoline" guy? Fuck him.
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post #15 of 23
8/10/07 at 12:44pm
Oh God. Drunk posting is horrible. I need to take a break now.
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post #16 of 23
8/10/07 at 2:00pm
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Originally Posted by gravedigger
Yeah, I'm sure the folks in Made in Mexico are nice people but, holy shit, they are terrible.

reggaeton is also terrible. That "Gasoline" guy? Fuck him.
That is a horrible song. I'm happy it opened up new doors and bridges to new markets, and I understand people who hadn't listened to reggaetón before liked it, but it's SUCH a lame example of the music.
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post #17 of 23
8/10/07 at 3:19pm
I fail to see how reggaeton is a genre and not actually just ONE SONG.
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post #18 of 23
8/10/07 at 9:26pm
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Originally Posted by KABONG
I fail to see how reggaeton is a genre and not actually just ONE SONG.
Same way salsa isn't just one song, etc.
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post #19 of 23
8/11/07 at 5:21pm
God that music is terrible. It makes my ears bleed. Maybe I've only heard the mainstream stuff, so I shouldn't pass judgment, but damn, it really sucks.
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post #20 of 23
8/11/07 at 5:28pm
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Originally Posted by BTSMGL
Same way salsa isn't just one song, etc.
Except I can listen to salsa and not want to murder. Nor do I confuse salsa songs, for that matter.

Argue your case.
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post #21 of 23
8/11/07 at 6:37pm
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I don't confuse reggaetón songs.

I dunno what to tell ya.

Edit: I confuse merengue songs quite a bit, though. Now there's a music that goes perfectly with your "just ONE SONG" description.
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post #22 of 23
8/12/07 at 2:40am
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Where are you exposed to reggaetón?
On NPR, just like everyone else!
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post #23 of 23
9/5/07 at 4:31pm
I was first exposed to it on local Hip Hop stations in LA and SD. I liked it. Then I saw a reggaeton mc with a live band perform at Temple Bar and it kicked total ass.

I think it's great. I think Spanish and French MC's flow so much better than English speaking MC's.

Give me Saian Supa Krew over Common or Kanye West any day.
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