Latin Mafia

One Liner: Spanish indie pop, which, I guess I knew had to exist, but somehow didn't expect

Wikipedia Genre: reggaeton, Latin trap, house, Latin R&B, dream pop, indie pop
Home: Mexico City

Poster Position: Second Quarter - Line 8
Day: Saturday
Both Weekends.

Thoughts:  This was one of the bands that was teased with the postcards that went out before the lineup was announced.  I had no idea who they were, and now I know why.  This first song sort of feels like if a K-Pop song was in Spanish.  Which is an ignorant take, since I don't think I know a single K-Pop song, so maybe this is like what I imagine K-Pop would sound like in Spanish.  It is terrible.  Like, crazy generic guitar licks coming in over completely forgettable pop synth garbage.  And a bunch of Spanish words saying lots of things.

This band has two twin brothers doing the vocals, which is kind of fun.  Milton and Emilio de la Rosa, with their older brother Mike doing the production.  It's all in the family!  Wikipedia says they "appeared on the scene" using TikTok during the pandemic.  Not sure which scene, but they did some tracks on video in their bedroom and received a positive response.  By the end of 2022, they sold out the Olympic Velodrome in Mexico City in minutes.  By April 2024, they were at Coachella, and I guess now we get to enjoy this too.  They won the Lo Nuestro Award for Best Latin Fusion Song in 2024.  So, they've got that going for them.  Which is nice.

One album, 2024's TODOS LOS DIAS TODO EL DIA.  Which is weird to type and means Every Day, All Day.  JEAAAAHHHH!!!  But their top song is a 2023 single called "Patadas de Ahogado," which I swear I have ordered in a restaurant before.  What does that mean?  According to the google, it means "Drowning Kicks."  Which is a really weird title.  But I can't understand what they are singing about anyway, so maybe it is all about how a person they were drowning while doing hardcore mafia shit kept kicking them as they drowned?  Dunno.  221.4 million streams.

🎶 "I drowned that dude in the bathtub while he kicked like Pele!"  🎶 Iconic line for sure. Yeah, not really.  That song is not my thing at all.  Even if I could understand it, it sounds super lame.  Second-biggest streamer is "Julieta," which translates to "Julieta."  179.8 million streams.

Bro.  If you can sell out a stadium, you can afford some real Chuck Taylors.  Damn.  Also, that song is very boring as well.  Even if this was in English, I really think I would have felt the same way that these are bad tracks made by Mike in his bedroom when he should have just like, gone to college and become a nurse practitioner or something.  This is not my thing.