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Originally Posted by suarezn
OK...with regards to "Mambo" they are NOT referring to the old mambo style music originating from Cuba, I believe. It's just an expression they use to mean they got rhythm, charisma, appeal, they are the shizznit, etc...Hard to explain to a Non-Dominican who's got no mambo.
I believe Merengue De Calle and Dominican rap definitely should have had their own category. It is the most popular genre right now by far. If nothing else regular old merengue should have their category dropped, because of how unpopular it has become. Problem is these nominations are not put out there by the people, but by a few elitist people who like to nominate crap regular Dominicans don't care about. These people have no clue or are discriminating on purpose.
If Spanish rock, pop rock, classic dance and junk like that which are not Dominican and most people could care less about are included then these two other genres have to be included too, because guess what? This is what most of the population listens to, this is what they like. Example is nobody is more popular than Omega right now.
Pretty much all kinds of music have been considered junk when it first comes out, just because people are not accustomed to it. Music which nowadays is considered "good" or great (i.e. Jazz, Rock n' roll, tango, bachata) was considered crap at one time.
Mr. Lu: I think you're opening up the debate in the wrong forum. This is another one of those things most people here just don't get. Most people here are foreigners. To them this music is trash...reason is "THEY HAVE NO MAMBO".
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Hehehe that was funny but you make many good points. I am no one to say anything about merengue de calle, I don't like it that much either, I wanted to pull my hair out when the other day i was in a club and it was merengue de calle night, arghghgh. I dont like it maybe because is for a younger generation, like teenagers, but i agree tht it should have a category since its been around for a little while now.