Friday, May 30, 2014

Ozomatli

Seems like a bad sign when you most popular song on Spotify is not actually your song (Jack Johnson's Mudfootball from some festival compilation disc).  But once you get past that, these dudes are latin funk and hip hop-fused rock and roll.  They've got at least two Grammys under their belt from 2002 and 2005, and apparently served as the United States' cultural ambassadors in 2009/2010 with officially state-sanctioned trips to play Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Mongolia, and China.  Which is messed up; if people in Asia now believe that this music is representative of America, we are screwed.

Now multiple countries still think we are in to Limp Bizkit and Fishbone.  Dear Vietnam, most people in America (except for Michael Bay) quit listening to rap/rock in about 1999.  Maybe they just stuck to their rap/cumbia sound when melting Asian faces, although that also ought to be highly confusing for people trying to learn about American culture:

By the way, although we just missed it, April 23 is apparently Ozomatli Day in L.A., so put that on your calendar for next year.

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