I don't especially recommend the video. The song (?) is featured in the delightful little movie 10 Items Or Less.
Kemo the Blaxican: La Receta
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You’re right. The video is definitely not my cup of tea.
AMDG -
I don’t know what it’s about but it’s not exactly wholesome. The movie is not in the least like that. Just a very small warm-hearted story. I may have mentioned it here back when I first saw it, which is probably 10 years ago.
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I don’t remember that. I’m not entirely sure I was reading the blog yet 10 years ago. Anyway, I’ve put it in my Netflix queue.
When I was a kid, I loved the word “queue” because of the spelling. I still pretty much like it for that reason.
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Okay. I watched it on YouTube. Nice little movie.
AMDG -
Still can’t believe whole movies are on YouTube with the creators getting nothing or nearly nothing.
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Should I get it from Netflix anyway, so they will get some money?
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Well, I see (via Wikipedia) that the company’s owned by Morgan Freeman, and the other main character is played by Paz Vega, who’s pretty successful. So I wouldn’t worry about it. Still, there must be a lot of artists who are being cheated by YouTube etc. And maybe with something like 10 Items it makes a difference to the various behind-the-scenes people…I don’t know how that works.
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I learned last week that Morgan Freeman came to a funeral at the church where I work 4 years ago. The funeral was for the husband of a co-worker.
AMDG -
Yeah, definitely don’t like the video, but the tune is kind of cool. There’s a Mexican restaurant I go to occasionally that sometimes has Latino hip-hop videos on in the bar. The videos tend to the risqué, but the tunes themselves are often fun. They are generally lighter in tone than this one.
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I should have used a different YouTube clip for it–there were others. In the context of 10 Items, the whole vibe is different. You really just get the irresistible horn riff.
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There has been a handful of pop songs over the past four or five years that have prominently used a mariachi-type horn riff. I’ve liked that sound since I was a kid listening to my parents’ Herb Alpert records.
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I’ve got an Smithsonian-Folkways album of old mariachi music that’s great. “Old” meaning recorded before 1960 or so, iirc.
I wondered if the riff in this song was sampled from something else, actually. It seemed familiar on first hearing. -
I think I’ll just stick to Aida Cuevas.
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