1 | 27/02/2021 – 19:14 (GMT-4)
The legendary Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés, who was an insistent critic of reggaeton, said that this urban genre should not be considered music.
“Rock’n’roll was first and foremost a genre that came down from the blues and is easy to notice and therefore it is music and it is valid and, over time, it has become much more serious and dedicated to the activity. background music. Reggaeton has no antecedents because it is not music, it has no antecedents because it is not rhythm, it has no antecedents because it is much less text, everything seems very decadent and that is why I criticize it “, said the Cuban singer the Spanish newspaper A B C.
It’s not the first time the author of songs like “Yolanda” or “El breve space” has spoken out against reggaeton.
According to Milanes, reggaeton “It’s something that escapes artists and the public (…), they follow the paths that the media is allowed. It is the states that have the responsibility to educate the people so that they know how to listen, they know how to feel.”
“Of course, music has a social, poetic and spiritual function and it cannot be left behind,” he said.
On another occasion, Paul qualified simple musical reggaetonsuperficial, devoid of poetry and spirit; and summed it all up in the term “emergency music.”
“It simply came to our notice then. I suffer a lot because throughout my life I have tried to save poetry for popular work, and the media end up imposing other things, “he said.
After some of Pablo’s criticisms of reggaeton, reggaeton Wisin replied: “I hope that I will soon change my mind and that I will be able to start seeing music and art from another point of view.
“I tell that person that, in our case, mine, my company’s, all we do is try to do great things, try to evolve. Obviously, we didn’t do everything right, but we always try to grow, to look in this way to do the right thing in a professional way, to work with great artists not only from the urban genre, but also to be able to merge with other genres.
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