Since we can never read enough discussion of Rosalia versus Latinx artists, here’s J Shepherd from the Slate music crit roundtable :
This is not to say that “authenticity” is the goal or even all that desirable as a flat concept, but when Rosalía is better known by mainstream English publications than Anitta or Natti Natasha or Amara La Negra or Karol G or even Becky G, the system has either gone wonky or is doing exactly what it was meant to.
https://slate.com/culture/2019/12/best-music-2019-fka-twigs-solange-holly-herndon.html
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
I might grant more weight to her statement if Googling her name paired with any of those artists' names yielded results. You can't complain that no one's writing about these artists if you're not writing about them either.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
(She's an editor at Jezebel. If she wanted to get something out there, she could. The last time she wrote about Amara La Negra was in 2015.)
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 24 December 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
As editor, maybe she assigned someone else to write about them.
I wrote up a Karol G preview in 2017 for the Washington DC City Paper, and did Bad Bunny, J Balvin, & Maluma this year. There’s not too much English language coverage of Latinx music in DC area
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 December 2019 00:19 (four years ago) link
https://remezcla.com/lists/music/10-best-latino-latin-american-spanish-albums-of-year-2019/
Less "urbano" than I expected, but still strongly represented. 1.'This Is How You Smile' by Helado Negro;2. 'Oasis' by Bad Bunny & J Balvin; 3. 'Ahomale' by Combo Chimbita; 4.'Almadura' by iLe;5.'Sueños' by Sech; 6.'Foam' by Divino Niño; 7. 'Soy Piedra' by Belafonte Sensacional;8.'Sombrou Dúvida' by Boogarins; 9.'System' by Debit ; 10-Joterías Bobas’ by Hidrogenesse
Not really seeing many Latin jazz albums on lists. The genre seemed formulaic years ago, but still hangs on. Pancho Sanchez did a Coltrane tribute I see. The NPR jazz critics poll usually has a separate Latin jazz category, but the 2019 poll is not posted yet.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 January 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link
Time to go to the 2020 thread:
Rolling Afro-Latin Music 2020: Reggaeton, Salsa, Bomba, Latin Jazz, Bachata, Merengue, Urbano and more Latinx
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 January 2020 16:09 (four years ago) link