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Songs in Spanglish

My problem with La Buena

When I first heard Camila Cabello’s song, “La Buena Vida”, I could not wrap my head around it. I wanted to like it, but something felt so wrong and off.

I think maybe I was battling this preposition that I’ve been hearing since I was a little girl which was “Don’t mix your spanish and your english”. I was told that speaking in both languages in the same sentence sounded unsophisticated, mis-structured, and uncultivated.

Vida was that it has a tejano/spanish sound with English lyrics.

The Tejano genre is already a mix of Mexican and Texan/ U.S. sounds, but I have been listening to Tejano music since I was little with my family or at parties and I had never heard it in English.

Selena Quintanilla, a famous tejano singer, sang ‘Enamorada De Ti” was meant to have a familiar sound base from Tejano music but the label wanted the band to be flexible with a sound that they could make in Spanish but also translate to English. Camila isn’t the first to mix Spanish roots with English lyrics but La Buena Vida was an interesting take and by me feeling that something was off, made me realize how much it was true to me.

“What recourse is left to them ate their own language? A connect their identity to, one cating the realities and values language with terms that are but both.” (How to Tame a

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I remember pivotal moments like when Kali Uchis went viral for her bilingual song, Telepatia, in 2021, bilingual song Selfish Love by Selena Gomez, and A Handful of Water by Sofia Valdes whichww I found in 2021.

Yes, I am aware other hits like Shakira, Pitbull, etc., have mixed English and Spanish and this isn’t a new thing but for me, those versions either came in English or Spanish. It was rare when both English and Spanish verses were together on a song on purpose, one language taking up as much space as the other.

Since 2021 I have been looking for artists who sing in Spanglish trusting that their intended audience, like me, will understand what they are singing in both languages without any “English Version” or “Spanish Version”. Sometimes when a song in Spanish was a great hit by an amazing musical artist, they changed it to English, and vice versa, to help broaden the spectrum of listeners.

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Don’t get me wrong, I like English and Spanish versions because I think they bring a variety of ways to sing and interpret a song; but Spanglish songs feel like a love letter from an artist to me- to our community of peo ple who feel the way we do. It’s an embracement of ‘los dos lados’. It’s saying, “I am both Spanish and English and that doesn’t cut me in half, it makes me whole”. We are whole. I am happy to support a musician who does songs in English, songs in Spanish, songs in Spanglish and is ultimately proud of who they are and all their in-betweens. It makes me want to embrace mine.

Not to mention, there’s just more to go around. Sometimes there’s a saying in Spanish that just makes perfecr sense in Spanish and at the same time some verses can feel right in English. Why change that? It’s not about being misstructured or uncul tivated because when it comes to art, our purpose to bring all of ourselves.

Anyway, I’m happy to report that I absolutely love La Buena Vida, Telepatia, along with many more, so I thought it would be fun to make a playlist consisting of more artists who make bilingual music like Maria Isa bel, Niko Rubio, Boy Pablo, etc. Hope you enjoy!

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Selena Didn’t Know Spanish

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Culture in the Latino Community Impacts Mental Health

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We tell our mothers “Mama que de duele

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Table of Contents

Songs in Spanglish

Jenna Ortega, Anya Taylor-Joy Spark Debate on Latinidad

Table of Contents on Latinidad

5 Comtemporary Latina and Chicana Poets Shop Bella Dona

Interview: Becky G Marianismo

Main Story: Welcome to Aztlan

How To Make Chilaquiles

How To a Sleeck Braided Ponytail

Salud Mental

Welcome to

“According to legend, the Aztec people had migrated from a place tlan came to mean the Southwestern United -Gloria Anzaldua

During the Chicano movement, Mexican Americans were fighting like foreigners in what was once their own land and the concept still had a home.

I would argue some of us still fight for that sense of belonging. for us before like “Ni de aqui, ni de alla” and “not mexican enough ken records. I hear story after story of a Hispanic experience enough?” still around as if our identity is a stamp of approval still want acceptance within the community. I know we still want why I think we are still fighting for an Aztlan. We still look for nected to every side of us, without our constantly Where we feel like we didn’t just Where we feel more than enough to the point We are still looking

I invite you to Aztlan

No more questioning our identity Welcome to

to Aztlan

from a place called Aztlan to Central Mexico. For Chicanos, Az-Southwestern United States, their homeland.” -Gloria Anzaldua were fighting for their rights and a sense of belonging. They felt concept of Aztlan was so desirable because it was proof they had a home. belonging. I fear that our cry for help phrases that have worked mexican enough or american enough” have now made us into broexperience and after all these years, why is the question, “Am I approval that we are codependent on others to give. I know we still want to feel like we aren’t 50% this or 50% that. Which is look for a safe haven, a positive mentality, where we feel conour constantly having to prove ourselves. didn’t just slip between the cracks. the point we are overflowing with who we are. looking for a home. to Aztlan Magazine. our identity but embracing it. Welcome to Aztlan

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