I think I've lost count of how many times I have had to hear that phrase, or even how many times myself repeated it when I started to dabble in this world of music, the amazing thing is that it has the peculiarity that when it thunders is with pride, as if denying the fact a whole range of genres, even though they are to your liking, just for the language you are is something to brag about.
But honestly I had never given much importance to the issue, partly because as I said I also thought that way for some time, and good because everyone has their own tastes. But recently it occurred to me something peculiar, if not annoying, which made me think a bit about the subject.
A few weeks ago I decided to go with friends to a small festival due in part to the size of the festival and the situation in my country, artists who attended were nationals, some not well known (part of the theme of the festival) others already quite influential in the national movement, finally the fact is that if it had not been for the event turned out to be pretty good and personally I was a blast, might have gotten away with a bad taste, and all because people with whom I attended, this because the whole time I did not stop to hear phrases like "I do not like them," "is simply that Spanish music is not to my liking", "do not you think it would sound better in English ? ", not counting of course the fact that their faces were so serious that they should not be allowed in any rock concert.
From that day, or rather the day after overcoming the hype that a good concert stops, I could not help stopping to analyze a bit this position, because it seems quite unlikely the good despise music just by being in a certain language and even more so when it's your native language, which would connect should allow a little more with what you hear.
At first what went through my mind was that maybe they were right, just the songs are not good, but after overcoming that little mental lapse where I realized that I can not, because I'm not just me who it says that the bands that were presented, and a good number of artists speaking, are of a very high standard. Then I took into consideration one of the arguments that have given me the most, is the fact that "music in Spanish is always late," and it could be true, sometimes we feel a step behind in many respects and art not it is the exception, but you can not deny that there are many artists and bands that have brought quite innovative proposals to the medium.
Given the doubts hanging around a long time in my head decided to discuss it with my brother, the conclusion he reached was that it was a complex, since most of these people tend to want that music Spanish speaking is like anglica of language, even if this can not be, because ours is created by different people who live and develop in very different contexts. It was this that led me to link a little issue with my career, because in the end I could only understand this rejection and complex course that my brother spoke as part of a denial of our identity.
I mean, to take such a position usually exclude a whole range of artists and genres under an argument that hides background something like "is that they are Latinos", "how good they can be if they are Venezuelans?" As if being x country and speak x language the back automatically mediocre or lower than the rest, I see even more clear when we talk about these mergers imported genres, so to speak, with more indigenous, most of these people simply tend to reject it without even give it a try, for me this is still part of the belief that our country and even across the continent, is in a layer lower than the rest of the world, leading often to deny what we are, isolating ourselves to us, and leading us to reject even the good things that can arise here.
With this I am not implying that we have to accept everything that comes out of our countries, because I am also one of the most critical to this position, but if it is true that we all have a right to hear, see, read and feel the things as we please, gender and language that we like, it's just that we should keep a little more open to options around us, and to have that ability to admit when something is good, because nobody can deny me that no matter what language they touch the Arctic Monkeys are very good, in the same way they can be fried tomatoes, relatively speaking of course.
Anyway, for me the idea is to also understand that if never support what our ever going to be able to evolve and be as good as we want, always bearing in mind that such support should be objective, ie, saying both bad and good of everything, so always maintain a constructive criticism that drives us to always make things better.
Finally I leave only one of my favorite songs from the album of the band útilmo I mentioned up there, in case you still do not know the fried tomatoes.
