Mexico City, May 6 (EFE) It is the first verse of “Ella baila sola”, by the singer named Peso Pluma and the regional Mexican band Eslabón Armado.
Something has been changing for years in the global impact of Mexican music and now three songs sung by Mexicans are the most listened to songs in the world.
“It seems to me that, without a doubt, Mexico is resuming the leading role it had traditionally had in the world,” Alejandro Grageda, leader of relations with artists and record labels for Mexico at Spotify, said in an interview with EFE.
“Un x100to” by Grupo Frontera and Bad Bunny, “Ella baila sola” by Eslabón Armado and Peso Pluma and “La bebe-remix” by Yvng Lucas and Peso Pluma are the three songs that head the Spotify Top 50 Global list, a It shows “small but powerful” the great moment that the music of this country is experiencing.
Mexico has always had a special place on the charts. However, after the massive success of artists like Vicente Fernández or Jenni Rivera, there had not been a moment of such repercussion as the current one, and they had even come to underestimate the sounds of the band, cumbia or mariachi.
Grageda also considered that this moment of effervescence “will not be fleeting.” “I think that she will be more and more a protagonist on the lists, it is a consequence of the work that has been done for many years,” she added.
And that is also felt by the artists within the sounds of the Mexican regional, who are also united and do not stop making collaborations that lead them to be heard around the world.
“Thanks to the support of all the artists, the duets that are being made, people are really liking that stuff. It is merging with urban or reggaeton and that makes the Mexican regional bigger,” the members of Eslabón Armado commented in an interview with EFE, reflecting in their comments the mentality that has contributed to the growth of the regional.
LESS ORTHODOXY
The new generations have less orthodoxy and fewer prejudices about how to build a song or a genre. They arrive and criticize in a positive and constructive way what is already there and dare to be creative.
Before, artists who developed into more traditional music would release some pop songs to get on radio stations and now artists who feel comfortable in pop are back to experiment with more traditional genres.
Some of the most recognized artists in the “mainstream” such as Becky G, Bad Bunny or Karol G have wanted to be part of the Mexican music movement and have joined the greats, such as Peso Pluma or Grupo Frontera, to delve into the sounds that don’t stop ringing.
In addition to the force implied by the tendency of young people to renew the genre, Grageda considered that it also contributes that the themes have changed, and that the themes of Mexican music reflect a new reality.
“It is this sample of how migration can transform you, how when you are young you go with your roots but you grow up with a different social context such as the United States, which inspires you from those North American genres but you return home and are used to listening to the traditional” , considered Grageda.
Trombones, tuba and accordion are mixed with more contemporary lyrics. “It is a point of nostalgia for the old and something new for the young,” the singer of Grupo Frontera, Adelaido Solis III, known as Payo, said in an interview with EFE.
“Mexican music has a lot of potential, it is a new era for us,” said the members of Banda Renovación.
In the last 5 years, music consumption through Spotify has grown by 604% in Mexico, while in the United States by 212% and globally by 431%, data that shows, explained Grageda, the acceptance of Mexican music in the world and how the Mexican regional has been feeding on “mainstream” genres without losing its essence.
From Spotify Mexico they have been creating various playlists -they have up to 300- that have even become famous as “La Reina”, “Sad Sierreño” or “Corridos Perrones”. “They are a playlist very similar to generation Z,” Grageda concluded, although she acknowledged that the pending issue in Mexican music is the inclusion of a greater number of women.
