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Subject: The Latin Pop Craze
Written By: whistledog on 02/19/24 at 8:58 pm
For a while in the 90s and even beyond, Latin pop/dance music was all the rage! Post some of your favourites!
We all know that go-to song... the Macarena from 1995, but did you know there were two versions? (technically 3 if you count the version by The Chipmunks, which for the purpose of this topic, we won't lol) I used to get confused which was which until I realized the easiest way to tell them apart... the Los Del Rio version uses a sample of Alison Moyet's laugh from the 1982 hit Situation by Yaz/Yazoo
Los Del Rio - Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)
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Los Del Mar featuring Wil Veloz - Macarena
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Subject: Re: The Latin Pop Craze
Written By: whistledog on 02/19/24 at 9:01 pm
I really liked this one from 1997. This group is from Denmark...
Los Umbrellos - No Tengo Dinero
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Subject: Re: The Latin Pop Craze
Written By: nally on 02/19/24 at 11:36 pm
We all know that go-to song... the Macarena from 1995, but did you know there were two versions? (technically 3 if you count the version by The Chipmunks, which for the purpose of this topic, we won't lol) I used to get confused which was which until I realized the easiest way to tell them apart... the Los Del Rio version uses a sample of Alison Moyet's laugh from the 1982 hit Situation by Yaz/Yazoo
Los Del Rio - Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)
Los Del Mar featuring Wil Veloz - Macarena
Also, the Los Del Rio version - well, one mix of it - has a young lady singing three verses in English. (There is also an all-Spanish version, which I have heard, but I personally don't care for.)
Moreover... one episode of the animated series Animaniacs made a parody of it called "Macadamia" (which we probably won't use for the purpose of this thread, even though I personally liked it).
Subject: Re: The Latin Pop Craze
Written By: nally on 02/19/24 at 11:40 pm
Another go-to that readily comes to mind for me is "Livin' La Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin, from 1999.
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Subject: Re: The Latin Pop Craze
Written By: batfan2005 on 02/20/24 at 8:58 am
Another go-to that readily comes to mind for me is "Livin' La Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin, from 1999.
I think 1999-2001 was the peak of the Latin Pop Craze of the Y2K. Santana and Enrique Iglesias also had many hits around this time.
Subject: Re: The Latin Pop Craze
Written By: nally on 02/20/24 at 11:54 pm
I think 1999-2001 was the peak of the Latin Pop Craze of the Y2K. Santana and Enrique Iglesias also had many hits around this time.
Yeah...Enrique Iglesias was just getting started on the pop scene, taking after his dad Julio.
Santana, on the other hand, was making a comeback. (They had been active throughout the 1970s and into the early 1980s.) In 1999 they released their comeback album, Supernatural, which had a couple of tracks that became hits: "Smooth" (featuring Rob Thomas), as well as "Maria Maria" (featuring the Product G&B; this was actually a hit in early 2000).
Subject: Re: The Latin Pop Craze
Written By: whistledog on 02/22/24 at 6:17 pm
Lou Bega is best known for the world wide hit Mambo No. 5 but did you know it was not his only hit? He had a few other singles in various parts of Europe, but he remained a two hit wonder in the US/Canada
Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of...) (1999)
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Tricky, Tricky (2000)
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Subject: Re: The Latin Pop Craze
Written By: whistledog on 02/22/24 at 6:31 pm
No Mercy was an American pop band created by the late Frank Farian and in the mid-90s, they had 4 charting singles on the US Billboard chart, 2 of which made the Top 40...
Where Do You Go (1996)
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Please Don't Go (1997)
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Subject: Re: The Latin Pop Craze
Written By: yelimsexa on 02/27/24 at 1:58 pm
No Mercy was an American pop band created by the late Frank Farian and in the mid-90s, they had 4 charting singles on the US Billboard chart, 2 of which made the Top 40...
Where Do You Go (1996)
Please Don't Go (1997)
I find that the sound of a lot of these artists is a natural evolution from the house/eurodance sound earlier in the decade, all being dance-pop based and in essence was part of that "disco is back" mantra that some critics called such hits. Of course, Gloria Estefan never really went away and continued to evolve as the decade progressed, away from the "freestyle" as the decade began, to a cover of the 1976 disco hit "Turn The Beat Around" in 1994, to more electro sounds later in the decade. It was naturally going to happen as the North American Latino population really was exploding around this time, and in essence was partially inspired by the aforementioned freestyle sound based out of Miami, NYC, and southern California Latino communities in the later half of the '80s. Latin rap didn't start to really explode until around 2002 when Pitbull came out with "Kings of Crunk", effectively putting this era in the rear view mirror.
And the nostalgia for this era seems to be peaking commercially thanks to the Trilogy Tour by Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias, and Pitbull.