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NOMINACIONES A LOS LATIN GRAMMYs 2023: LOS HABITUALES AND CO.

 Ayer se desvelaron la lista de nominados a los Latin Grammys 2023, que tendrán lugar en Sevilla el 16 de noviembre.  Este año se ha vuelto a nominar a un grupo de artistas que llevan acaparando los Latin Grammy en las últimas ediciones, volviendo a poner de relieve la falta de adecuación a la realidad de la música latina por parte de la Academia. Camilo , Karol G y Shakira son los máximos nominados de esta edición con 7 nominaciones cada uno, a los que sigue Bizarrap , con seis, y Pablo Alborán , con cinco.  Canción del Año:    Acróstico - Shakira Amigos - Pablo Alborán y María Becerra De todas las flores - Natalia Lafourcade Ella baila sola - Eslabón Armado y Peso Pluma NASA - Camilo &Alejandro Sanz Ojos marrones - Lasso Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53 - Bizarrap y Shakira Si tú me quieres - Fonseca y Juan Luis Guerra TQG - Karol G y Shakira Un x100to - Grupo Frontera con Bad Bunny Ya en esta categoría se introducen a "los habituales" , los artistas que, año tr

2023 GRAMMYs RECAP: BEYONCÉ REIGNS WHILE THEY SNUBBED BJORK -AGAIN-

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 The 65th Grammy ceremony took place yesterday (Staples Center, L.A.). The Awards started been given before the 'big' ceremony, the one were the stars go, seat and perform and where the ' main' categories are given (The Big Four and the pop ones). This lead , as it happens every year in the Latin Grammys, to giving the awards while the celebrities are on their way to the Grammys or, like it has happened to Bebe Rexha, while they are arriving to the red carpet. In consequence,  most of the Grammys that Beyoncé took home yesterday were given in this other ceremony ( Best R&B Song for 'Cuff It', Best Traditional R&B Performance for 'Plastic Off The Sofa' and Best Dance Recording for Break My Soul). Even  the singer posted a photo with the awards before the main ceremony had place. That's why they should unify most awards in one ceremony, at least, some of the genres categories (like EDM, hip-hop, rock, latin or country), because these genre

THIS BEAT IS KILLING LATIN MUSIC!

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 In 2018, Grady Smith, released one of his most famous videos, 'This beat is killing country music'(Stop the snaps)' , in which he pointed out the excessive use of claps or snap tracks in country music. Often used in pop music (as it is shown in the video, for example, in Halsey's Without Me), the trend became a must in country pop and more in the boyfriend country subgenre, forgetting the use of country instruments for the confort and simplicity of the snap beat.  Two years later the beat keeps on pop music and on  mainstream country music, like in Gabby Barrett's I Hope . Its spread has been so huge that it is almost in every genre, in latin melodic pop too !  Latin music is crammed by reggaeton and latin trap, as I said in my last post, and there is so little space for latin melodic pop. Almost every artist that made melodic pop in the past had to adapt and make urban music (Luis Fonsi, Álex Ubago, Pedro Capó...) and the artists that remain making it use this bea