dreadlocks previously said:

ladronaso as usual, your insights are brilliant. i remember once visiting a village called yasica, and two young men were practicising on their guitars. they told me that their dream was to become bachata musicians, and i congratulated them for it. but they were practising the very same guitar riff that i heard in every bachata i listen to. why is it that they could not have been creating something new, unique to them, in order to make their own statement? because they saw the succes of another song with the same sounds, and they wanted to play it safe. well, playing it safe is what degrades music. Miles Davis did not play it safe.James Brown did not, either. music is an expression which comes from creative souls, and copying something you already heard leads to sterility. all my expatriate friends have the exact same opinion of bachata as i do: listening to more than one in sequence leads to boredom. we do not mind dancing to it after a few cold presidentes, but it is not the type of music to sit down to for a listening session.