Daddy Yankee is Globalism
This I decided while watching Pepsi Musica over the last few
weeks. Globalism is about flows. Flows across borders and boundaries
and oceans. To a banker it's about the flow of funds, transactions. To
a Hollywood mogul or committees that make such decisions these days
it's about whatever set of intangibles (not that they believe that they are intangible) will make people spend money
to watch Transporter ii in Lichtenstien, Uzbechestan, Balikpappan and
every point in between. To Karen Hughes (and Martha Bayles) it's about
reminding people everywhere, but particularly in the arab world, that
America is about spreading freedom. Martha Bayles wrote a column about this in the
Washington Post's Sunday outlook section last week
Now Showing: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Americans. If anyone remembers she wrote a book (which I read at the time) called Hole in Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music.
Which was dedicated to the proposition that while some pop culture music was
life affirming, much of it was nihilistic and life denying. I never saw
that her thesis ever got beyond taste, but I guess its all a matter of
subjective aesthetics. Lastly; globalism is going to be Daddy Yankee on
the inevitable European tour (after the US "who's your daddy" tour,
singing reaggeton to Germans.
I had a hit on my referer logs sometime last week:
search=Karla+blogs+pepsi musica... or something along those
lines. Karla Blogs? Well I can't say I'm surprised. I like the
show. I don't understand a word of it, but it's a tightly put together
well paced show. Karla has one of the effusive personalities in all
television. Up there with Ty Pennington. It's a music show, You don't
have to understand the language to appreciate a good song. When Karla
interviews a singer or musicians it's easy enough to tell if they're
sincere, or assholes. Occasionally you see characters who seem to like
to talk about themselves, but seemed bored or uninterested taking
about their music. Music flows across cultures easily - it's a
very global medium. Being someone who likes rock and roll genre songs I've taken to the band Natalia Y La Forquetina.
JD Natasha is similar. I'm at a loss as to why Natalia Y Forquentina
isn't being played on the college stations I listen to, WMUC or WZBC. I
guess they might have to play Interpol one less time or something.
Verizon is trying to hawk a new line of cell phones n' network on the
selling point of being able to view the Shakira (who no longer needs
introduction) video to La Tortura over them. I should coco. Can't beat
that voice on the song No though.
I have determined that the singer Thalia has a last name, it's Sodi (born ThalÌa Ariadna Sodi Miranda) She has a page of her own in Wikpedia
Thalia Sodi - Wikipedia.
She's been singing profesionally since she was six. Was in a Mexican
production of Grease, is she reprising this with the new song Amar sin
ser Amada. It says in the wiki that she has her own brand of
Hersheys chocolate La DulcerÌa ThalÌa. I wonder where one goes to get a
hold of some. Tran likes chocolate.
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