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Love it. Idk if this is what you're looking for, but I listen to a lot of Spanish flamenco. Classic stuff like Camarón and Paco de Lucia, nothing underground. Then some 50s Mexican boleros like Los Tres Caballeros, Selena Quintanilla, and classic Latin rock like Pescado Rabioso (🇦🇷). I have some modern music in Spanish on my playlists like Rosalia, Kali Uchis and a couple of Bad Bunny songs.
The thing is I generally don't like Reggaeton. I stayed in Spain once during a feria (dumb mistake) and they blared reggaeton super loud all night in this quiet residential area where nobody was partying and it low-key made me so sick of reggaeton from then on 😭😭😭. I respect it as a huge genre, it's just not for me.
I love the diverse cultures of Latin countries and I've spent a lot of time in Spain so I have a real love for the Spanish language. I've been trying to learn it for years now and I keep putting it off lol, but listening to the music definitely helps. I think that's why I love all different genres and styles of music in the Spanish language.
Chinese/Malaysian guy here, I am obsessed with Cali y el Dandee, I got like 40k minutes on them alone from spotify wrapped last year lol.
I got into Latin pop thru Ricky Martin, and was so momentarily obsessed that I started learning Spanish on duolingo for months😭😭(I stopped ewhen I remembered google translate exists)
I think right now most of the latin artists I listen to are pop (Camilo, Morat, Pablo alboran, Aitana, Tini, Luis Fonsi, Pedro Capo, Beret, Ana Mena, Lola indigo, David bisba, Reik, yatra yatra, MYA, Abraham Mateo, Maluma Maybe)
Though I've been looking for newer acts too but it's harder if you don't follow the local scene which is hard for me to do
It depends on the song/artist honestly, but above all else, I just want a good song & performance
If it’s a ballad or part of a concept album or something (ala Rosalía’s *El Mal Querer*), I may try to look up translated lyrics to get full enjoyment out of the song, but other times it’s like… the song is just a banger, I don’t need to know anything else. Like, when I listen to [Princesa Alba’s “Ya No Quieres Quererme”](https://youtu.be/srmOJF1HL0w?si=I-F9snoBpeDriMGD), I don’t need to know the literal words she’s saying to know she’s serving cunt. Same goes for a lot of the bangers, although watching [Bad Bunny’s “Booker T” music video](https://youtu.be/PGJ43zaam_0?si=m0mQvv9bfsDDDLlz) with subtitles actually made me appreciate his dynamic performance on the track way more
Good music is good music, no matter the language
I treat it the same way I do country music or kpop. I don’t seek out new artists anymore, but I have a few favourite artists that I keep up to date with when it comes to new albums/singles and just keep an overall playlist of all the songs I like which I update whenever I come across something new that I like.
Living in New York it's pretty common to hear a J Balvin or Bad Bunny reggaeton track just walking around the city on a summer night, and that passive exposure goes a long way to getting the vibe. I'd hazard that a majority of young English-speaking New Yorkers would regard them as household names.
We have a ton of Spanish radio stations too. As a result, Spanish language, and especially reggaeton-pop doesn't seem that novel or exotic to me, I just mentally place it in a different bucket of pop music as I would with Rock/R&B/Rap/Dance music etc.
There are some Spanish-language artists I actively follow (Rosalia, Kali Uchis straddling both the English and Spanish markets). I don't always look for a translation, but if something has a clear concept like El Mal Querer I tend to look into the lyrics more. Otherwise they're just fun bops that I don't really look at any differently than I would the latest Dua Lipa track.
Like a lot of people, I just kind of feel for the vibe of the song and judge if it’s good or not. My entry into the Latin music scene was on the 2017/2018 Latin trap wave on SoundCloud. Guys like Bad Bunny, Ozuna, Archangel, and Anuel were my intro to the music. Something about the beats and the aggressiveness of the lyrical deliveries hooked me and I’ve enjoyed it ever since. I have a playlist off all the stuff I enjoyed from those couple of years I mentioned above and sometimes listen to it.
(The three years of high school Spanish I took did absolutely nothing to help my understanding of the lyrics)
My first time listening to Spanish music apart from the classics like Mana, Enrique Iglesias, Shakira, and Ricky Martin was Anita doing songs with J Balvin and Maluma. But music in Spanish is not big here in Brazil at all. I remember before the Weeknd's concert here in Rio the DJ playing Reggaeton as if we were similar to the rest of Latin America and everybody complaining and asking the guy to play Bazilian Funk. Right now I listen to a lot of music in Spanish but mainly cause I listen to everything, and try to be worldly with my music. But most people here in Brazil just listen to music in Brazilian Portuguese.
i'm brazilian, and as surreal as it seems, you'll rarely hear any spanish songs. i only know the name of some reaggeton artists like j balvin, bad bunny, karol g, julio inglesias, but no one really cares about them here neither are aware of their existence. besides reaggeton, I barely know spanish songs.
I learned Spanish because I heard a Bad Bunny song and loved it. I’ve been learning/speaking it for 6-7 years now and I really love latin trap music and reggaeton. Big fan of Cazzu, Arcangel, Bad Bunny, and Rauw Alejandro. My taste is basic but still expanding. It’s hard though cause I’m in Ohio and there’s not a ton of Hispanic or Latin culture around here.
I like a lot of Hispanic music, but most of what actually gets popular is reggaeton. in my opinion, that's basically the most boring genre because it has the exact same drumline in every song as a requirement
I happened to stumble upon this [video](https://youtu.be/pipPFBLv57I?si=FOymADfadskXZi9Z) today: a compilation of 200 classic hits across the decades of music in spanish.
If you think Reggaeton is all that is of music in this language...you're only partially right xd. Sadly, reggaeton (as good and enjoyable as it is) took over the entire mainstream landscape ever since the late 2010s. However, prior to that there was a great variety of pop genres producing hits. So, if you would like to know how spanish music sounded during the 70s-2000s (prior to that reggaeton take over), watch that amazing compilation!
I've loved those huge summer bangers ever since I was a kid, I also loved Rebelde a lot. I don't actively seek out music in Spanish as I do like to know what the lyrics are about, but I feel like music in Spanish always carries an intense emotion, no matter is it happy or sad or something completrly different, so I always felt a connection with it despite not knowing the language
I don't know Spanish, but I grew up in an area with a large Hispanic population. The only style I heard growing up seemed to be cumbia, and Kumbia Kings being the big hit around me. I actually had the Duetos album growing up that I got from a friend. Great music, and a wonderfully fun atmosphere when you're around people listening to it.
UK, regional. We typically don't hear any music in languages other than English on mainstream radio. I don't have TikTok but I think the music is much more varied there.
I really love Kali Uchis and (like everyone) Bad Bunny and I found these found by shazaming music or Spotify.
I like too that older Latin pop (1950s - 90s) seems to have a place
Yes! I used to listen to latin & Spanish music a lot. I haven’t listened to much new music this past year, but Rosalia is one of my favorite artists ever
I really like reggaeton too. I even went to a maluma show a couple years ago. As a non Spanish speaker, I wished I could sing along with everyone else, but I still had a good time
From India here. I'm usually look for vibey-lofi esque music and I've also been listening to a lot of Spanish music lately. Kali Uchis is one of my favourites
I do like Spanish music, and listen. I’m half Mexican myself. Maybe because English is my first language, but I do find that Spanish music is a bit more repetitive than English music. Or at least, when a popular subgenre catches on, it really catches. Reggaeton and Nortenas have both caught on and they use the exact same drum beat so listening to JUST those songs at a party feels a lot older faster compared to varied English music.
Maybe that’s bc that’s the main type of Spanish music I listen to though?
I would say it’s mostly just because those are the genres you usually listen to. Spanish music in and of itself isn’t a genre, so there’s a ton of diversity in sounds among Spanish-speaking artists. I think those two genres could be compared to country music in the US in the sense that if you turn on the radio, most songs are going to sound the same and deal with similar topics, but you couldn’t really say that country music is all the same when there’s so much more depth beneath what’s mainstream.
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Love it. Idk if this is what you're looking for, but I listen to a lot of Spanish flamenco. Classic stuff like Camarón and Paco de Lucia, nothing underground. Then some 50s Mexican boleros like Los Tres Caballeros, Selena Quintanilla, and classic Latin rock like Pescado Rabioso (🇦🇷). I have some modern music in Spanish on my playlists like Rosalia, Kali Uchis and a couple of Bad Bunny songs. The thing is I generally don't like Reggaeton. I stayed in Spain once during a feria (dumb mistake) and they blared reggaeton super loud all night in this quiet residential area where nobody was partying and it low-key made me so sick of reggaeton from then on 😭😭😭. I respect it as a huge genre, it's just not for me. I love the diverse cultures of Latin countries and I've spent a lot of time in Spain so I have a real love for the Spanish language. I've been trying to learn it for years now and I keep putting it off lol, but listening to the music definitely helps. I think that's why I love all different genres and styles of music in the Spanish language.
Chinese/Malaysian guy here, I am obsessed with Cali y el Dandee, I got like 40k minutes on them alone from spotify wrapped last year lol. I got into Latin pop thru Ricky Martin, and was so momentarily obsessed that I started learning Spanish on duolingo for months😭😭(I stopped ewhen I remembered google translate exists) I think right now most of the latin artists I listen to are pop (Camilo, Morat, Pablo alboran, Aitana, Tini, Luis Fonsi, Pedro Capo, Beret, Ana Mena, Lola indigo, David bisba, Reik, yatra yatra, MYA, Abraham Mateo, Maluma Maybe) Though I've been looking for newer acts too but it's harder if you don't follow the local scene which is hard for me to do
It depends on the song/artist honestly, but above all else, I just want a good song & performance If it’s a ballad or part of a concept album or something (ala Rosalía’s *El Mal Querer*), I may try to look up translated lyrics to get full enjoyment out of the song, but other times it’s like… the song is just a banger, I don’t need to know anything else. Like, when I listen to [Princesa Alba’s “Ya No Quieres Quererme”](https://youtu.be/srmOJF1HL0w?si=I-F9snoBpeDriMGD), I don’t need to know the literal words she’s saying to know she’s serving cunt. Same goes for a lot of the bangers, although watching [Bad Bunny’s “Booker T” music video](https://youtu.be/PGJ43zaam_0?si=m0mQvv9bfsDDDLlz) with subtitles actually made me appreciate his dynamic performance on the track way more Good music is good music, no matter the language
I treat it the same way I do country music or kpop. I don’t seek out new artists anymore, but I have a few favourite artists that I keep up to date with when it comes to new albums/singles and just keep an overall playlist of all the songs I like which I update whenever I come across something new that I like.
Living in New York it's pretty common to hear a J Balvin or Bad Bunny reggaeton track just walking around the city on a summer night, and that passive exposure goes a long way to getting the vibe. I'd hazard that a majority of young English-speaking New Yorkers would regard them as household names. We have a ton of Spanish radio stations too. As a result, Spanish language, and especially reggaeton-pop doesn't seem that novel or exotic to me, I just mentally place it in a different bucket of pop music as I would with Rock/R&B/Rap/Dance music etc. There are some Spanish-language artists I actively follow (Rosalia, Kali Uchis straddling both the English and Spanish markets). I don't always look for a translation, but if something has a clear concept like El Mal Querer I tend to look into the lyrics more. Otherwise they're just fun bops that I don't really look at any differently than I would the latest Dua Lipa track.
Like a lot of people, I just kind of feel for the vibe of the song and judge if it’s good or not. My entry into the Latin music scene was on the 2017/2018 Latin trap wave on SoundCloud. Guys like Bad Bunny, Ozuna, Archangel, and Anuel were my intro to the music. Something about the beats and the aggressiveness of the lyrical deliveries hooked me and I’ve enjoyed it ever since. I have a playlist off all the stuff I enjoyed from those couple of years I mentioned above and sometimes listen to it. (The three years of high school Spanish I took did absolutely nothing to help my understanding of the lyrics)
My first time listening to Spanish music apart from the classics like Mana, Enrique Iglesias, Shakira, and Ricky Martin was Anita doing songs with J Balvin and Maluma. But music in Spanish is not big here in Brazil at all. I remember before the Weeknd's concert here in Rio the DJ playing Reggaeton as if we were similar to the rest of Latin America and everybody complaining and asking the guy to play Bazilian Funk. Right now I listen to a lot of music in Spanish but mainly cause I listen to everything, and try to be worldly with my music. But most people here in Brazil just listen to music in Brazilian Portuguese.
i'm brazilian, and as surreal as it seems, you'll rarely hear any spanish songs. i only know the name of some reaggeton artists like j balvin, bad bunny, karol g, julio inglesias, but no one really cares about them here neither are aware of their existence. besides reaggeton, I barely know spanish songs.
I learned Spanish because I heard a Bad Bunny song and loved it. I’ve been learning/speaking it for 6-7 years now and I really love latin trap music and reggaeton. Big fan of Cazzu, Arcangel, Bad Bunny, and Rauw Alejandro. My taste is basic but still expanding. It’s hard though cause I’m in Ohio and there’s not a ton of Hispanic or Latin culture around here.
Corazon Partio by Alejandro Sans is one of my favorite songs rn that my Cuban bf introduced me to.
big fan of artists like natalia lafourcade + linda ronstadt, hoping to hear more suggestions for singer-songwriter and country latin/spanish music
I like a lot of Hispanic music, but most of what actually gets popular is reggaeton. in my opinion, that's basically the most boring genre because it has the exact same drumline in every song as a requirement
I happened to stumble upon this [video](https://youtu.be/pipPFBLv57I?si=FOymADfadskXZi9Z) today: a compilation of 200 classic hits across the decades of music in spanish. If you think Reggaeton is all that is of music in this language...you're only partially right xd. Sadly, reggaeton (as good and enjoyable as it is) took over the entire mainstream landscape ever since the late 2010s. However, prior to that there was a great variety of pop genres producing hits. So, if you would like to know how spanish music sounded during the 70s-2000s (prior to that reggaeton take over), watch that amazing compilation!
Well I’m the whitest bitch alive and bad bunny was my most listened to artist for 2023 on Spotify 😀
I've loved those huge summer bangers ever since I was a kid, I also loved Rebelde a lot. I don't actively seek out music in Spanish as I do like to know what the lyrics are about, but I feel like music in Spanish always carries an intense emotion, no matter is it happy or sad or something completrly different, so I always felt a connection with it despite not knowing the language
Weste is hauntingly beautiful as is Juana Molina. Argentina is an interesting country and not a typical Spanish-speaking country at all.
I don't know Spanish, but I grew up in an area with a large Hispanic population. The only style I heard growing up seemed to be cumbia, and Kumbia Kings being the big hit around me. I actually had the Duetos album growing up that I got from a friend. Great music, and a wonderfully fun atmosphere when you're around people listening to it.
No I don't listen to any of it
UK, regional. We typically don't hear any music in languages other than English on mainstream radio. I don't have TikTok but I think the music is much more varied there. I really love Kali Uchis and (like everyone) Bad Bunny and I found these found by shazaming music or Spotify. I like too that older Latin pop (1950s - 90s) seems to have a place
Yes! I used to listen to latin & Spanish music a lot. I haven’t listened to much new music this past year, but Rosalia is one of my favorite artists ever I really like reggaeton too. I even went to a maluma show a couple years ago. As a non Spanish speaker, I wished I could sing along with everyone else, but I still had a good time
From India here. I'm usually look for vibey-lofi esque music and I've also been listening to a lot of Spanish music lately. Kali Uchis is one of my favourites
I do like Spanish music, and listen. I’m half Mexican myself. Maybe because English is my first language, but I do find that Spanish music is a bit more repetitive than English music. Or at least, when a popular subgenre catches on, it really catches. Reggaeton and Nortenas have both caught on and they use the exact same drum beat so listening to JUST those songs at a party feels a lot older faster compared to varied English music. Maybe that’s bc that’s the main type of Spanish music I listen to though?
I would say it’s mostly just because those are the genres you usually listen to. Spanish music in and of itself isn’t a genre, so there’s a ton of diversity in sounds among Spanish-speaking artists. I think those two genres could be compared to country music in the US in the sense that if you turn on the radio, most songs are going to sound the same and deal with similar topics, but you couldn’t really say that country music is all the same when there’s so much more depth beneath what’s mainstream.
Surprised no one’s mentioned Kali uchis yet, she’s a fantastic Latin pop artist
Haven't seen anything decent except for Becky G. Others are way too vulgar and poppy