RESEARCH UPDATE: the La Perfecta in question are very much from Curaçao 🇨🇼, (one or two) Spanish title(s) notwithstanding. see the full sleeve here: youtu.be/08SINb8V9CY?...
(but yes, there is also a La Perfecta (from) Martinique, and there is even an older Eddie Palmieri project by the same name)
this is that video. the genre is kabula/kaseko, btw. (tbc by “not dissimilar” I was referring to the musical style btw, not suggesting it’s the same track or anything)
youtu.be/JD69pjQTQRw?...
don’t hear the Portuguese myself (and a quick check suggested funana typically has accordion in it, which this hasn’t). I suspect (altho I’m not quite sure) this might be a Surinamese track. found a not at all dissimilar “Baja da Mi” track on Spotify, the YT upload is from 2010.
iow the pavlovian I Zimbra / 99 Luftballons response when asked to come up with a NIE track
I know you’re joking, but this is my biggest fear about this WC poll: people just trying to come up with any song by a Dutch/German/Swiss/Argentinian/etc act that happened to be a hit in the UK/US, or alternatively some tried and tested chestnut, instead of fielding a ~~fresh~~ young team of players
yeah it’s wild
from what I can see one of the biggest prizes is still up for grabs, I’m of course talking about [REDACTED]
I saw some Qatar 🇶🇦 slander in the guidelines (and I will leave Curaçao 🇨🇼 out of it for now) - I do hope you (and everyone else too ftm) have made at least a mental note of this foqqinq Qatari banger that I posted the previous time: bsky.app/profile/lokp...
the least surprising reply ever!
re: the last scenario (completely hypothetical of course!): if a manager is willing and able to fill those slots themselves, will they be allowed to? or are you the ultimate curator?
is the long version available yet? very
curious about any (non)recency clauses, a thing that was discussed when the idea for this poll was announced (I’m still very much in favour of exclusively recent stuff for all countries, but you may have decided differently of course!)
segment from the Official UK Singles Chart: 72 Central Cee • Iceman Freestyle 73 Saja Boys • Soda Pop (from KPop Demon Hunters) 74 FLEETWOOD MAC • EVERYWHERE (in its 139th chart week) 75 HUNTR/X • Takedown (from KPop Demon Hunters) 76 Myles Smith • Stay (If You Wanna Dance) 77 ZXKAI • No Batidão
holding its own in the UK charts among the Young People’s Music as we speak, yet another week
Dave, the 🇿🇦Tea White album you linked came out in 2023 (he released another one last year)
ah oui, guess je misread ton post
first noticed *it in…
it’s pretty big all over the place, first noticed in the nether regions of the UK charts. why this track tho? dunno
are we talking “NO BATIDÃO” here?
don’t know if it’s the last, but it’s certainly the best
thanx for the headsup, will check it out!
people who come down for their breakfast at this time will be siphoned to the kitchen to help prepare for the busy hour
Chinese and Turkish being two examples - altho I will conceed that as languages go, they are both pretty obscure /s
non-musical, but it annoys me no end that they put a dot on the I in ALTIN and not on the I in GARIP, when it should be the other way around (there’s two different I’s in Turkish) - they don’t make this mistake in the song titles and haven’t made it on their earlier artwork either
excited to make the acquaintance of international musical powerhouses China Drum and… The Struts (?)
the road that leads to Jerusalema
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okay, let’s do a C4 Pedro fave as well, “Acaba de Dar o Toque” (2018)
youtu.be/4K-oXhVNEQo?...
I was a fan too! but then I learned about them thru you (in 2015 from what I can see), lusophone afropop being a bit of a blind spot for me until that point. my fav jam of theirs was the hypnotic “Eu Sou Topé” with C4 Pedro: youtu.be/CpAX4H2XWDk?...
poster for Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll, the 1987 American documentary film directed by Taylor Hackford that chronicles two 1986 concerts celebrating rock and roll musician Chuck Berry's 60th birthday.
culmination of said genre:
(from Billboard:) Spanish-Language No. 1s “DtMF” is the fourth all- or mostly-Spanish-language Hot 100 No. 1, and the first by a soloist and no other billed acts, dating to the chart’s 1958 inception. Here are the elite such leaders: “DtMF,” Bad Bunny, one week to date, Feb. 21, 2025 “Despacito,” Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee feat. Justin Bieber, 16 weeks, beginning May 17, 2017 “Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix),” Los Del Rio, 14 weeks, beginning Aug. 3, 1996 “La Bamba,” Los Lobos, three weeks, beginning Aug. 29, 1987
pretty depressing stat this:
¡el jelcore!
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