Point of view from a Latino: NOBODY CARES!!!

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a film about Hector Lavoe...alot of hispanics care. I dont know if you know this...but in 1993 when he died, it recieved attention all throughout the latin community and umm about 500 people were present for his burial. You say nobody outside of the Carribean Nations will even care about salsa? maybe u should beef up ur knowledge because u ever heard of the country called Colombia? Well i have and they also listen to salsa over there. Ever heard of Venezuela? Panama? Well these are all outside of the Carribean and I do recall Hector Lavoe as well as other famous salsa singers such like Marc Anthony, Victor Manuelle touring around south american where they had sell out crowds. How dare you say salsa singers are marginal at best. Ever heard of El Gran Combo, Ruben Blades, Celia Cruz, Tito Nieves, Eddie Santiago, Frankie Ruiz, Grupo Niche. By the way, they did not make this movie to make a quick buck. U must not be puerto rican because the reason they made this movie was to also show the rise and fall of a Puertoriqueno because this past year marked thr 50th anniversary of the Puerto Rican Day Parade. Get yourself together!!! You say ur latino, but thats really hard to believe when ur putting down music which identifies our culture...ur puttin us to shame!!!

I don't know y ur mad but playing salsa takes more talent than the artist you've mentioned. Selena was a pop act, Ritchie Valens (and don't make me mention why he was liked by the american public) who got famous for raping a mexican folk song was a pop act, and as we know most pop music is next to garbage. Salsa is a genre that requires skill, even the guy that plays the clave has to have rhymth. and as a person of caribbean descent i feel highly offended by ur stupid and uninformed comments.

When in the hell have you heard that this kind of music only appeals to us? I went to spain this summer and the club that I usually went 2 played salsa and other caribbean sounds b4 playing techno. I also went to 2 clubs that played only salsa and there was always a lot of ppl going into them. My friend spent 5 months in Italy and she told me that she felt stupid because she didn't know how to dance salsa because they were a lot of ocassions when she went into a club and they were playing and dancing it. I heard it's like this in a lot of places in europe too, so ur stupid comment is just that u dumba$$.

And u, as a mexican who hates caribbean sounds, shouldn't comment on where or when our music originated. Salsa took elements from a lot of the other genres that are seen in the caribbean and it got developed in the states (mostly by Puerto Ricans) so in a sense it is an american thing( as matter of fact most of the artist that could be labeled as "salsa artists" are often found in the jazz sections of music stores don't believe me go look up eddie palmieri just 2 name one) and jazz is a genre that not only requires high instrumental playing skills but also writing skills, i.e. COMPOSING, so don't b mad. go listen to a mariachi band.

p.s.
could u actually prove this?
"They are certainly not composers, most of their songs are rip offs or remakes of Spanish or Mexican composed pop or romantic songs." if you can i'll take u to a tijuana donkey show. i promise.

Hey rvejar, did you actually SEE the movie?

Get your facts straight.

Salsa originated in New York. It was made by the Puerto Rican singers and musicians in the city.

Salsa has become part of U.S. culture since it originated there.

Well I think time has proved that nobody cares. This movie was a huge flop at the box office.

You are so full of shyt, that is the reason why I don't care what happens to Mexicans in this country, because you Mexicans or at least most of you (don't want to generalize) think you are better that every other Hispanics. I'm not Purtorican or Cuban but I rather listen to salsa hands down than to that stupid frog hopping 'quebradita" or tejano music which is crap and only you Mexicans like.

It pisses me off that you cry when people are racist towards you, but what makes you think you can discriminate all you want? that is the reason I do not give a flying fu*k about Mexicans, I wish they deport most of yall back to Tijuana or whatever you came from. The only ones that should stay are the few LEGAL ones that work hard and the rest gang bangers, and rapers should be thrown back to Mexico lindo y no querido. A freaking fence the higher than the moon should be built around the border to keep yall indios outttt!!!!

The truth is that if the movie is good enough
it'll make us care about whatever person/thing it portrays.
(I'm thinking of a movie like "The King of Kong: A fistfull of dollars".)
In this sense the movie failed terribly.
I have nothing against Puerto Ricans or
against Salsa.
The movie plainly sucked.
That's the truth.
It served as another vehicle for the j-lo and marc-anthony love affair thing.
Sigh.
To the rest of you who complain about racism and attack with racism
at the same time...well you just killed it for your own cause.
The fact is that the box office proved that in fact not many people
cared about the movie. It sucks. I went to the movie with a friend
of mine who is a big fan of Lavoe. She was disappointed.