Mexican music … it’s great for about five minutes but no longer … maybe an hour if you’re drunk.
It’s the horns that do it for me … the Mexican horn in music sounds fun for a minute or two but after that its like listening to Bluegrass or Old Old country where everyone is singing out their nose to a tune that will just never end (or else feels like it will never end).
But I’ve also attended a few Semana Santa (Holy Week) celebrations in Malaga Spain many years ago … it’s their Easter celebrations which features dozens of churches that go marching with their congregation through the city, led by a marching band with those same type of tinny Mexican horns - hundreds of them! All playing at the same time to the march of beating drums, surrounded by millions of people in crowded streets. For hours and hours all day and into the early hours of the morning.
It’s quite the sight and experience … Mexican horns, war drums, bloody Jesus on the cross, weeping Mother Mary, priests, women in black dresses, alter boys and girls and these guys …
Wow. Yeah, that wouldn’t be the most fun thing to watch.
And yeah, the horns get a bit much. Ranchera is the genre I was thinking of and it’s primarily a Norteño thing, which makes sense, because most of the neighbourhood was Norteño. I try not to judge people by their culture, but of all the world’s music you could have adopted as your own, you not only chose polka, but you slowed it way down and added lyrics?!
But then, as more than one Mexican friend has told me, “those are our rednecks.”
Find it hard to disagree:
That’s not some one-off, that’s a thing they wear and are into. And they try to go all-out with it. No offence meant but that’s like super rednecky.
Now I’m going to have to listen to Los Incas as a palate cleanser.
Edit: from what I’m reading, the horns can be put down to Pancho Villa loving march music.
Mexican music … it’s great for about five minutes but no longer … maybe an hour if you’re drunk.
It’s the horns that do it for me … the Mexican horn in music sounds fun for a minute or two but after that its like listening to Bluegrass or Old Old country where everyone is singing out their nose to a tune that will just never end (or else feels like it will never end).
But I’ve also attended a few Semana Santa (Holy Week) celebrations in Malaga Spain many years ago … it’s their Easter celebrations which features dozens of churches that go marching with their congregation through the city, led by a marching band with those same type of tinny Mexican horns - hundreds of them! All playing at the same time to the march of beating drums, surrounded by millions of people in crowded streets. For hours and hours all day and into the early hours of the morning.
It’s quite the sight and experience … Mexican horns, war drums, bloody Jesus on the cross, weeping Mother Mary, priests, women in black dresses, alter boys and girls and these guys …
My favorite was always the flaggelants.
Wow. Yeah, that wouldn’t be the most fun thing to watch.
And yeah, the horns get a bit much. Ranchera is the genre I was thinking of and it’s primarily a Norteño thing, which makes sense, because most of the neighbourhood was Norteño. I try not to judge people by their culture, but of all the world’s music you could have adopted as your own, you not only chose polka, but you slowed it way down and added lyrics?!
But then, as more than one Mexican friend has told me, “those are our rednecks.”
Find it hard to disagree:
That’s not some one-off, that’s a thing they wear and are into. And they try to go all-out with it. No offence meant but that’s like super rednecky.
Now I’m going to have to listen to Los Incas as a palate cleanser.
Edit: from what I’m reading, the horns can be put down to Pancho Villa loving march music.