What Is Reggaeton?

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I wasn’t that familiar with Spanish Music going into this video, part of the reason why this one is album focused and not song focused. I also don’t like doing base level genre introductions, since putting them in every video is tiresome, but the entire video is based around Reggaeton so I think it’s necessary for this video. The genre is also far enough outside English culture that at least I wasn’t that familiar with it.

If the genre distinction of Dembow is still confusing, don’t worry I feel the same. The primary distinction from Reggaeton listed on Wikipedia was the tempo, which proved to not be the case for Titi Me Pregunto. There’s also the terrible naming convention, with Dembow referring to a drum pattern and an entire genre.

Something I found while researching this video, and maybe want to free-form talk about in a vid, is how much of Latin music comes from the tiny island of Puerto Rico. I was concerned about wrapping my head around music for the 500M Spanish speakers of the world, but it turns out that a vastly disproportionate amount of music influence comes out of this one tiny island. If I had to guess why, I would blame its connection to the US. I’m not trying to be an American Chauvinist, but it’s one of the country’s primary material differences and explains the pre-internet hip-hop influence.

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