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'gasolina' was pretty big here in the uk (in the top ten chart i think)- but its the only track i've heard
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i cant here reggaeton or any of these other styles doing this
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I'm not saying that your point about the whole "electro punk" thing isn't interesting, but I don't think that your having heard Gasolina - a crossover track that in a lot of ways isn't really representative of the genre - can be a substantive enough of a base from which to categorize reggaeton and write off its importance...
Reggaeton isn't just the Puerto Rican version of some generic youth pop.... Its development has been tied to historical trends in Puerto Rico, and in the wider polyglot Caribbean...
This is something which, at least outside of the spanish-speaking Caribbean, is brand new, and has just exploded onto pop charts and radio stations around the world...
But, for years, this music has been the primary vehicle of expression for a whole generation of young people in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Panama, etc...
To write it off based on, of all joints, Gasolina - being by far the biggest crossover hit the genre has produced - I mean... yo, lol...
What would someone say about rap's ability to convey depth and substance if all they heard was, say, one cut from Lil Jon?
Or even better, all those people that laughed off "Rapper's Delight" as some sort of novelty way back when? You know - fake ass crossover hit to get an audience involved who up until hearing it didn't even know that the genre existed?
Like it was an annoying fad that would work itself out sooner rather than later - and how many of those same self-appointed arbiters of musical validity had any f*cking clue about the whole little universe of hip hop that had been developing on the streets of New York for years?