1 | 27/02/2021 – 19:14 (GMT-4)
The legendary Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés, who has been an insistent critic of reggaeton, said that this urban genre should not be considered music.
“Rock’n’roll in the first place was a genre that descended from the blues and is easily noticed, and therefore it is music and it is valid and over time it became much more serious and committed to the background musical work. . reggaeton has no background because it is not music, it has no background because it is not rhythm, it has no background because much less it is text, everything seems to me to be very decadent and that is why I criticize it, “the Cuban singer told the newspaper Spanish ABC.
This is not the first time that the author of songs like “Yolanda” or “El breu espacio” speaks out against reggaeton.
According to Milanés, the reggaeton “It’s something that escapes artists and the public (…), they follow the paths that are allowed to them in the media. It is the states that have the responsibility to educate the people so that they can listen, to that they know how to feel “.
“Music, of course, has a social, poetic, spiritual function and that can’t be left behind,” he argued.
On another occasion Paul qualified the reggaeton of simple music, Superficial, without poetry and spirit; and summed it all up in the term “emergency music.”
“It’s a shame to hear this music. I suffer a lot because all my life I’ve tried to rescue poetry for popular work, and the media ends up imposing other things,” he said.
After several of the critics who Pablo did to reggaeton, the reggaetonero Wisin answered him: “I hope he soon changes his mind and can start seeing music and art from another point of view.”
“I tell this person that in the case of us, me, my company, all we do is try to do great things, try to evolve. Obviously we haven’t done everything right, but we always try to grow, to look this way of doing the right thing in a professional way, of working with great artists not only from the urban genre but from being able to merge with other genres. that is our intention, “Wisin explained.
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