By the Zonagirante.com team @spinning zone
In the spacious newsroom of Zonagirante.com, we are increasingly moving away from the complacency of nostalgia. Living in the past and claiming that the past was better ages us considerably. If someone starts saying things like "that didn't happen in our day," or tells too many stories from their teenage years, we get very annoyed. Nobody is saying we're right to shy away from the past, nor, of course, are we trying to deny who we were., and even less so when we were happy. But it does us no good to look at the current rains as if they were our doom, or to feel that, as Pablo Milanés so depressingly put it, «"I don't reflect love like I did yesterday.". Some of us already have a few wrinkles and some gray hairs are accumulating on the front of our heads, especially when we've gone several weeks without visiting our favorite hairdresser, But we have neither children nor grandchildren to feel that the time has come to tell about our participation in battles of nonexistent wars. or to foolishly shout that music died when we stopped being young. We swear we'd rather sink into the corner of a nursing home or the worst chair at the bar of a depressing pub if we can't take it anymore and start to think that the best days are behind us. We are still here, in the present, count on us.
However, we cannot dismiss the idea that there was a golden age, or at least a significant period of brilliance across the continent., with outstanding stars who filled stadiums and made their songs anthems that dominated the radio stations in our Latin environment. We became familiar with many of those great productions through videos that were heavily featured on MTV Latino, a channel that we will never understand why it turned into that stupid reality show that embarrasses everyone and that nobody watches anymore. Some executive, who we hope is currently being tortured in the style of the Inquisition for his decisions, believed in the brilliant idea of removing programs like Raizonica o Headbangers to flood us with beardless teenagers on distant beaches having brainless dramas. But that's a discussion for another time. While we know that there are very few contemporary Latin groups that can attract large audiences and that everything has become a "niche business", it's good to remember the songs we know by heart., But instead of taking the obvious route with the original versions, let's add a little variety and listen to the interpretations of some colleagues, Some more prominent than others, have been performing these classics for some time now. Let's listen to Soda Stereo in the hands of the Colombians Telebit, one of the best songs of Fito Páez in the voice of Mariana Mazú or the northern version of The Microbe, of the much-remembered Mexicans Phobia, in charge of The Aliens of Nuevo León.
This is a playlist made to break the monotony and turn around what we've been listening to all these days. Join us for almost forty minutes on this musical adventure that, we know, will have you modulating these familiar melodies in your own way. However, during this time, my friend, do not fall into nostalgia; it is not in your best interest to ruin your spirits in the midst of this confinement.
