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This song’s genre is so far from my usual, that I don’t even know what it is called. Traditional Mexican Quirky Pop?
I don’t speak Spanish, so I don’t even understand the lyrics. I saw it on you tube, and it’s stuck in my head. I like it. I think I have developed a crush on the singer. Jessy Bulbo:
Someday I hope to form a supergroup with Jessy Bulbo, the guys from The Bronx and Rodrigo y Gabriella.
It would be punk as fuck.
If you’re all right with the sheer volume of the stuff, there are melismatic singers who do soul-pop with a more Motown sound.
Jessie J - Strip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ4xl7XJM08
Joss Stone - The Love We Had (Stays On My Mind): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiOMUIBkE5c
Joss Stone has been compared, not unreasonably, to Janis Joplin. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her perform wearing both shoes and a bra at the same time. Jessie J provided the live vocals for Queen when they performed at the 2012 Olympics.
Okay, as promised in this thread, I attended a friend’s country music performance last night. I stayed for seven songs (five originals, and two covers) – and he rocked!
That’s what surprised me the most: it was pure rock’n’roll, just with a countrified lead-vocal style. The sound (two electric guitars plus my friend singing while playing an electric-acoustic, plus drums and bass), the power chords…it sounded rather like early AC/DC!
(continuing from previous post)…I thought my friend did a good job directing the vocal harmonies, which is something some rock bands do well but is arguably more typical of country.
Anyway, it made me think that there’s kind of a spectrum of country music, from country-rock like this (and which I’ve always appreciated, ever since I enjoyed Linda Ronstadt’s Heart Like a Wheel album as a young child), across to “American Roots” stuff like bluegrass, acoustic blues, and other folky forms.
I like listening to both ends of the spectrum, but still would choose not to listen to the commercial “pure country” in the middle, given a choice. But at least now I appreciate more how even that commercial stuff isn’t far from rock’n’roll at all. Indeed, one could argue that bands like my friends’ are the only ones carrying on the rock’n’roll tradition these days!