When I finally decided to do this, I said to myself "I just need my ears!". Man, was I wrong! It never occurred to me that I'll have to listen to albums made outside, in countries with languages that I don't know. I never felt so ignorant in my life.
Sure, I like Louis Prima's Che La Luna a lot but that's just one song and it's Italian but can I really listen to a whole record in Latin? I suddenly felt sweat at the back of my neck and I was feeling my glucose going down. What am I going to do?!
I have a confession to make: I dislike no I HATE subtitles in non-English movies. I rarely like films made in other languages. You can pretty much tell what I'm about to say next.
But I have a plan of attack. My goal is to appreciate and not discriminate. Never judge a record by the album title alone. It says Congo so I thought I'll be hearing some lion-king-god must be crazy kind of songs in Latin. Weird huh? But don't listen to me, I'm an idiot. I know nothing. NIL.
I remember laughing my ass off when I heard the English version of Rammstein's "Du Hast". I was so used to the original German version (which is already funny btw) that hearing it in English made me laugh hysterically. It was my brother who asked me to come to his room to listen to his funny discovery. I want to take this opportunity to give you the gift of laughter so please listen to the English version. You are not going to regret it. I promise.
I guess that's normal right? We tend to laugh first when we hear something that we don't understand, not necessarily to the language but to ourselves because we don't get it. No Comprendo!
And that's what happened to me when I started listening to the record.I laughed. I smiled, Hell, I even started dancing and I don't understand a thing! I was a buffoon! Every word sang is pure comedy to me. I was high in laughter.
I thought of Google-ing the lyrics in English but I didn't need to. I was happy with my ignorance of the language and I chose to let it be that way because of what I felt. With the amount of positive energy this album gave me, what are the chances that they are actually saying something bad? thought so. Ignorance is bliss, man.
All fun and laughter aside, the reason why this album is a part of this book is because Sabu Martinez paved way to Afro-Latin music which I personally think is not a bad fusion.
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