How come my students still know Ricky Martin? Weren’t they still in diapers when he was famous? Or has there been a revival? Or what do you call it, a comeback?
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How come my students still know Ricky Martin? Weren’t they still in diapers when he was famous? Or has there been a revival? Or what do you call it, a comeback?
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Ricky Martin takes them back to their childhood. That song is old enough. He has also done remixes of songs with Pitbull.
:-p
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He’s an actor in a new film.
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https://www.out.com/out-exclusives/2018/1/09/exclusive-ricky-martin-and-edgar-ramirez-talk-love-death-and-gianni-versace
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I remember Ricky Martin from when I was a kid, but even then he was more popular with people a bit older than me, which makes sense because I was probably somewhere between four and eight. If you have students around 23-25 and older that might explain it. Or older siblings who introduced them to his music. And friends tend to share favorite music and whatnot.
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Why are mine nuts for Selena?
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I don’t even know who that is. Am I old?
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Selena (Quintanilla-Perez) was a famous American Spanish-language singer, same age as Ricky Martin, who was shot dead by the crazed female president of her fan club in 1995. Hey, the news was in all the papers…
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Also, IIRC, Selena barely spoke any Spanish but learned her songs phonetically.
She was hugely popular in the cross-border region (50 to a 100 miles both sides of the US-Mexico border) but essentially unknown otherwise. Her popularity was the type of thing that led Joel Garreau (9 nations of North America) to believe that the border area was turning into its own cultural sphere.
There was a movie in which the mestiza Selena was played by the caribbean Jennifer Lopez (her big break) casting that probably couldn’t happen in today’s micro-ethnically woke world.
Here’s one of her better songs.
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Down votes? Really? For Selena?! ¿No te da vergüenza?
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“I don’t know what you said but I hate it already.”
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Special bonus! Another frontera? song from the 1990s
El Colesterol by Fito Olivares (lyrics below the vid)
Ya me dijo el doctor muy en serio
Que de kilos ya estoy pasadito
No más grasa, ni azúcar, ni harina
Ni más golosinas que me hacen gordito
No más grasa, ni azúcar, ni harina
Ni más golosinas que me hacen gordito
Con mi colesterol en 300
El antojo casi me domina
Y pa´colmo mi fiel chaparrita
Con amor me grita desde la cocina
“Quieres que te guise un chicharrón,
Un pedazo de jamón,
O prefieres pollo frito mi amorcito?”
No, muy sabroso el chicharrón
Tu pollito, tu jamón
Pero ahorita nada de eso cariñito
Qué es lo que te pasa corazón?
Siempre has sido comelón
Y te me pones los moños mi gordito
No, muchas gracias, pero no
El doctor ya me ordenó
Que me faje el cinturón
Es que me sube el colesterol mi amorcito
Me sube el colesterol
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