Kali Uchis has been doing Latin traditional sounds like bolero before Rosalia in Motomami (2022). Kali Uchis has bolero in her album 2020 album Sin Miedo, and before the album she would sing bolero covers in concerts. Kali Uchis has been compared to Amy Winehouse since probably 2012 to 2014. You should check out her early discography. Every album, even EPs are very different. Last song Dame Beso is merengue, not Mexican, Muévete, is a subgenre of Merengue, perico Ripio. Merengue started in Dominican Republic. El Guincho helped Rosalia in El Mar Querer (2018), not Bad Bunny. Bad Bunny main producers are Tainy (pioneer of reguetón since 2000) and MAC.
AVAA Sir Skye! Amazing Catches - She’s actually heavily influenced by Sade and Amy Winehouse. I too was Sade (or Say-d) hater because I was only 12 when I heard ‘your love is king’, too sappy for my taste at the time when I wanted to indulge in Joy Division and Wu Tang, then because of her getting sampled on MF DOOM ‘s song Doomsday and Kon Karne (which sample, Kiss of Life and Is it a Crime, respectively) at age 13, I gained a renewed appreciation for Sade’s sultry sophistication, been a Major Sade Stan since then. If you get down time, do listen to Kali Uchis’ Red Moon in Venus - it is not her Best but the most Sade-esque Record.
AVAA Kali Uchis was the first artist to get me into something other than rap when I was in high school. I heard After the Storm because Tyler was featured on it and I was shocked because I had never heard a singer with a lyrical style that felt like rap. Not because she was actually rapping, but because she had such a distinctive voice that could get her message across. I listened to nothing but her Isolation album after that, and she’s evolved every album since
for me as a linguistics student, and a latino who got to learn english in brazil, it is a source of joy to see how she mixes both languages all the time with such mastery.
AAVA. On 'Te Mata' I think the message is more about her respecting herself and not allowing herself to be dragged down by another person. That's what kills this person she is singing to. Not literally about them not being able to touch her.
AVAA, i completely agree with your point on language privilege and i could not have said it better. Monolinguism needs to be actively fought in education
AVAA her 2018 album Isolation is my favorite album of the 2010s and one of the best pop albums of all time in my opinion. Her new project is good but Isolation blows it out of the water
Great review, totally unrelated commment but you should absolutely be reviewing the new Glass Beach album. Stunning prog rock-emo-art-rock songs. It’s super ambitious and it’s another addition into this “trans” music wave that’s been happening. Would love to know your thoughts on it.
i second this! what a great description of a hard-to-pin-down album :) also, if you want your comment to be read, i think you're supposed to put AVAA in the beginning... not sure if that whole bit is true for replies to comments so im gonna leave mine as is loll
La la la is fairly universal, but it is a bit different in Arabophone music because لا (la) means no. It can be and still is used but it is different. A parallel in English might be na na na and no no no where the small alterations cause different affects that monolingual betas have heard.
7:45 - 8:45 It seems like a bit of a stretch to consider modern (English) monolingual people as equally to blame as the original colonizers who put us in this situation. When you consider that many people don't have the time/resources to attain language education, might lack the mental health to do it if they do or simply don't have access to it, it's a bit mean-spirited to consider them equally culpable as the powerful class that push policies to maintain English Supremacy. Plus, to put the onus on each person to independently fix this is to suggest an individualistic solution to a communal problem. And that usually doesn't go well. Thinking more about it, to pursue a second language for any reason other than practicality really feels like a privilege only afforded to those with the resources to buy free time to learn. And that should be factored in for this discussion. ------------- Secondary question: if I put AVAA in my comment not with the intention of using it as intended but to ask questions about its use, will you still heart the comment? In other words, does your heart activate at the mere appearance of AVAA, or is it contingent on context?
First point, I see what you mean. I am perhaps a bit strident, but as a language teacher, I cannot get anyone to care at any level about what is happening to languages in this country. Neither the people in power in the administration nor the students. It is a collective agreement that seems to be struck on all levels that linguistic diversity does not matter, so i am trying to raise awareness of it on all levels. I'm trying to fight that everywhere. But you are correct that individuals are less responsible than organizations. About the other question, all messages with AVAA get a heart, unless they are explicitly against values that I believe in. So, your comment is challenging my point, but I believe in challenging my points. If your comment was "Lol, other languages are stupid. English rules! AVAA" then I probably wouldn't heart it.
@@professorskye It is true that linguistic diversity is a virtue that needs to be promoted. And at this point it's so low on the social concerns totem pole I guess you have to promote it by any means necessary.
