A Colombian once told me that he liked all kinds of music...Colombian music such as Cumbia and Vallenato, reggaeton, and Bob Sinclar, you know, all. But he neglected to mention another important genre...the genre of sappy love songs. Maybe he didn't mention it because it's understood that all Latinos love songs about love...especially when the love ends in a broken heart.
Now I've been to Mexico (briefly), to Guatemala and Honduras and Nicaragua, and now at the moment, to Colombia. Other the Spanish language and a fondness for ground corn, there are cultural threads that bind these ex-colonies. There's a beat that all Latin Americans feet are tapping. It's not the salsa or the merengue. Nor the samba, rumba, and tango. It's more than music, it's a musical soap opera.
And there's just one song to rule them all, one song to find them,
one song to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
And there ain't nothing darker than a Total Eclipse of the Heart. That's right baby, you can't go nowhere in this continent and a half without that power-ballad vibrating your eardrums and your soul.
Now I've been to Mexico (briefly), to Guatemala and Honduras and Nicaragua, and now at the moment, to Colombia. Other the Spanish language and a fondness for ground corn, there are cultural threads that bind these ex-colonies. There's a beat that all Latin Americans feet are tapping. It's not the salsa or the merengue. Nor the samba, rumba, and tango. It's more than music, it's a musical soap opera.
And there's just one song to rule them all, one song to find them,one song to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
And there ain't nothing darker than a Total Eclipse of the Heart. That's right baby, you can't go nowhere in this continent and a half without that power-ballad vibrating your eardrums and your soul.
Im really digging your blog Andrei :)
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