Mexican Music?

March 2, 2007 4:26 PM

While doing research to learn some mexican and latino songs, I found "Mexican Song", "Cartel de Sinaloa", comedian Pablo Francisco and Ray Conniff. Let's just call this some YouTube Friday Fun.
posted by snsranch (4 comments total)

While I was looking at those, a propos nothing, I found this.
posted by notsnot at 4:32 PM on March 2, 2007

Really interesting. Reminds me of how much I love these kinds of music and how much here, in the North East (USA), I hear so little of it. Northern New Hampshire is so homogeneous!
posted by johnj at 5:28 PM on March 2, 2007

Two notes:

1. The Cartel de Sinaloa stuff baffles me. There's this whole bunch of Norteno bands who write and sing about real criminals, drug-dealers and murderers. Its like violence and organized crime in Mexico has its own version of a Greek chorus.

2. Don't say anything bad about Ray Conniff to a Mexican if you know what's good for you. One of my great-uncles in Mexico had all the man's albums. Mexicans of the previous generation ADORED him. You can see it in the Youtube comments as well.

That is all.
posted by vacapinta at 9:36 PM on March 2, 2007

And, here's a Pablo Francisco routine using video from the uber-popular anime Naruto:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAAIx2Tfasw

Other comedians:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crkFNq2yhrk&mode=related&search=
The novelty wears off fairly quick.
posted by sebastienbailard at 11:06 PM on March 2, 2007