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февруари 5 2006 MSICA HEAVY


Casi se me olivid deciros!: Wayne Marshall's thorough Boston Phoenix


  cover piece on reggaetn


& his equally thorough


  Dem Bow/reggaetn mix.


No lo pierdais, joder. booom cha boom cha, booom..


today's NYTimes Daddy Yankee article by Sarah Corbett is decent too.


The genre remains at the point where every English-language journalist writing about a reggaetn artist must provide a scene overview and cover its history.


Corbett does it well but shines when looking at the money drenching everything, closing her piece with a Reebok photo shoot scene:


>>Yankee's expression slackened. Behind him was a scrim of white paper, a big blank expanse that was just a holding place for what would be the advertisement's real backdrop some gritty-looking, Latin-looking street location to be Photoshopped in later. An assistant handed him a sneaker, and the shooting started up again. Yankee lifted the shoe to eye level and gave it a hard, meaningful look. "Yeah," the photographer encouraged, "hold that." Then, abruptly, they all turned away again, examining the image on the computer screen, back on the phone, back in conference. Only Daddy Yankee stood there, beneath the glaring lights, still holding his pose.<<


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w&w (URL) - февруари 5 2006

gracias for the forward, jc.

and thanks for making me read to the end of that article in today's times. if not for your rec, i wouldn't have made it past the first page's ghetto-mythologizing, its precise descriptions ("unrefined lyrics over a speeded-up beat" - why didn't i think of that?), or the even more evocative "boom-pa-dum-dum."

pa-dum-dum. um. i'll leave it right there.

paz//

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