Reggaeton

It was intended to be a short answer to a Kelkian question on the Mothership, but then, as usual with me, it got out of my hands. So here's my list of favorite latin musicians :

Reggaeton is a matter of controversy for women all over Latin America.

Usually its lyrics are about how women are a bunch of whores that just want to get laid (by men is understood), but from time to time, you find some reggaeton that maybe is not that obvious...

For example : "Atrevete-te" from Calle 13 a group from Puerto Rico

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLHuDDdo-90

The lyrics say something like :

Atrevete-te-te-te (Come on, dare !)
salte del closet (come out of the closet)
destapate (take your clothes off)
sacate el esmalte (take the polish off)
dejarte de taparte (stop hiding)
que nadie va a retratarte (no one is gonna take a pic)
levantate ponte hyper (get up, get hyper)
prendete (get on fire)
sacale chispas al estarter (make the starter sparkle)
prendete en fuego (get on fire on fire )
como un arte (i'm not sure of this line)
sacudete el cinturon como si fuera un whiper (shake the belt like it was a whiper)
que tu eres callejera streetfighter ('coz you are a street girl streetfighter)

so... it's ambiguous no ?

As for me, I say, if it's good dancing music, the kind that makes you just wanna get on the dance floor and shake your ass, I don't give a damn about the lyrics.

For example :

Gasolina from Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rico too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCUO_ApQccs

The songs basically says "A ella le gusta la Gasolina, Dame mas Gasolina, Como le encanta la Gasolina, Dame mas Gasolina" (She likes Fuel, give me more Fuel, how she loves Fuel, give more Fuel), and of course, fuel is...

I just LOOOOVE that song to dance !

As for my favorite latin artists :

Juan Luis Guerra
from Republica Dominicana

El costo de la vida
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zLpacr1DlU

La bilirrubina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cosT3X-owzk

La cosquillita
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX7IkZ5IMqg

Ojala que llueva café
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJimpth-yNs

El Niagara en bicicleta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4i7tbqKWp4

Bachata rosa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9UIl8I6WBQ

etc...

Joe Arroyo
from Colombia

La Rebelion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhtn3HROvgA

Echau pa'lante
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz77RC8qDok


Shakira of course
from Colombia

La Tortura (awesome video !!! this girls moves her boobs, her ass, her every particule !)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piFr31cWpEo

Hips don't Lie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htJuGVrhKWc

Ojos Asi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqeuSWTgtQo

Ciega Sordomuda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOeaxkMbGO8

Beautiful Liar (feat. Beyonce or the other way around)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtIHBRsy1lI

Rubén Blades
from Panama

These are songs to hear and read. Look up the lyrics if you want to know what they mean.

Pedro Navaja
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbi2HunKux8

El Padre Antonio y su monaguillo Andrés
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvL_CQFuZdg

Decisiones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzCPT8wQMM0

Mana
from Mexico

El Muelle de San Blas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4TGbW0_6mw

Rayando el Sol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLUcqW2Z3_E



Enjoy !