La música en España es muy similar a la música de Estados Unidos. Hay música tradicional, pero la mayorías moderno. Me gusta la música tradicional mejor de la música moderna. Noté qué una cancion ere el mismo de un himno que canto en iglesia que yo voy. Yo no comprendo por que la música es similar a la música de Estados Unidos. Cuando salgo, solo escucho la música de Estados Unidos. No lo me gusta.
Anoche, I went to a clase de cultura on Spanish music. It was different than what I thought it would be, but it was very cool.
Basically the dude ( who is one of my professors) talked about how music has progressed throughout the decades. It was very odd to me, because I recognized the style of music throughout the entirety of the lecture. Whether it is good or not, much of the music industry elsewhere has influenced the music here in Spain. Honestly, I expected to come here and here the bumpin Spanish music I had in my head. However, not the case. Almost everywhere I go (stores, bars, cafés, etc) I hear American music. I asked a waiter one time what the deal with that was and he told me that most people cant even understand the lyrics,l but they all play it because everyone like the music. I asked one guy to play some traditional stuff (I mean I would even settle for some Enrique Iglesias), but the guy was like no this is my favorite kind of music. They blew me out of the water. Plus, what is popular and current here in music was like last months top hits in the U.S, or at least in good ole Alabama.
We started off talking about the early 60s and listened to "Mi calle" by Lone Star. It was a very typical sounding 60s song. Then, to illustrate the late 60s, we listened to "Himno de la Alegría" performed by Miguel Rios. This song is basically "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee" hymn that I have sang in church for many years. I think my professor was just trying to get across the traditional music style during this time, really to illustrate the contrast of the next generation of music - The Movement (la Movida).
Another traditional (calm type music, not too rock and roll, no sexy music) song we listened to was "Dime, Dime" by Los Ángeles. This song, as well as video, was like placing the Beatles inside Spanish men's body and putting them in Spain. It makes sense because this group was influenced heavily by the Beatles and Kinks.
Then, the movement happene (late 70s, early 80s). When the king, Franco, during that time died ('75), all hell broke loose in the multimedia area of life (newspapers, music, TV, etc).
The only relation to the US time frame I can make is to the time a little earlier than this when the hippie (peace, love, drugs, sex, and rock and roll) era became a thing. But, this was much different. Franco was a dictator, and a terrible one at that. He restored the monarch during his rule, and created am economical recession. He promoted only traditional Spanish cultural events, and anything else was strongly forbidden. Everything was censored and the people's emotions were suppressed for as long as his rule. TV, literature, music, newspapers, etc- all of it was controlled and censored. So, after he died people could do whatever they wanted. The music industry saw this as a new door to a completely different type of music ( just like Elvis created the oh so evil hip swinging movement). Anyways, so music following this time sounded completely different. A good illustration of this is the song, "Voy ser Mamá" by Almodovar y Macnamara. This is a super weird song.
Okay, so most of the stuff following that wasn't as weird cause people got most of their super strong emotions of repression and what not out. People could now fully express themselves. And we all know that people express themselves through art, and most of the time the stronger the expression, the better the art. So, in my opinion, the music got better.
Rock and roll was born in Spain my friends.
Tino Casal- "Eloise"
Love this dude, he reminds me of like a mix between Prince and something I'm not sure what.
This band, called AirBag, is like a Spanish version of Aerosmith. This is probably my favorite video.
"Maxi ha Vuelto"
As you can tell, it's not "flamenco"-y sounding of what one would associate with "traditional" Spainish music. But, it is still good. And, there does exist that type of music and young people do listen to it, even if it is not as common as the American stuff, so I'm still happy. :)
After this class, some of us students went to my favorite bar and continued to discuss more about what the class covered.
Didn't think you will see homework and sangría together at a bar? Well, now you have seen everything. That is what us cool kids do these days.
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