Are people still listeninng to reggaetton?!? LOL I guess the fad still has legs...but mark my words it will go the way of the dinosaur. Garbage usually ends up were it belongs eventually.

i hate this kind of music o.0 que viva el rock!!

reggeaton is still listened to but, not as popular

ciby you dont like it because it was invented you know where...I dont like it because it sounds horrible

"ciby you dont like it because it was invented you know where...I dont like it because it sounds horrible"

It was invented in Panama. But I see what you're trying to insinuate. Even if it was a Dominican creation I would still loath the music. In my day they had a name for stuff like this. It was called crap! (pronounced with the spanish "r")

insinuate nothing ciby " the genre of reggaeton however is most closely associated with Puerto Rico, as this is where the musical style later popularized and became most famous, and where the vast majority of its current stars originated. [3][4][5][6]

"insinuate nothing ciby " the genre of reggaeton however is most closely associated with Puerto Rico, as this is where the musical style later popularized and became most famous, and where the vast majority of its current stars originated."

So what? It was invented in Panama regardless of where the genre got its legs.

kinda like techno and Detroit correct?

every body thinks somewhere else but where it actually happened

"kinda like techno and Detroit correct?"

Really? For whatever reason I thought techno originated in London. I wouldn't equate the motor city iwth the birthplace of one of the preferred choices of music for euro-trash..lol

If you really want to get technical then reggaetton stems from the english-speaking caribbean.

reggae is rock and roll with a Caribbean echo

ciby detroit would not have been my first guess either...Techno is a form of electronic dance music (EDM)[1] that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, USA during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988.[2][3] Many styles of techno now exist, but Detroit techno is seen as the foundation upon which a number of subgenres have been built.[4]

That'san interesting piece of trivia.

Techno started from the Punk/new Wave scene. Came descended from bands like DEVO and Gary Neuman & the Tubeway Army.
Actually "Cars" by Gary Neuman is generally credited as being the first "Techno" hit. Then the Euro- Gay dance crowed grabed it and totally ruined the genre.

Where was this Neuman guy doing his music? And goulet I don't think reggaetton comes so much from reggae as it does from dancehall, which for whaetever reason alot of people erroneously call reggae.

Daddy Yankee Doodle who ?? I'm sorry, but my age.......Are we suppose to be thrilled or something. I'm still stuck with old Santana and good ol Music from the 50's, 60's, 70's and some 80's, and yes the early 90's......I just hope his Music is not just a spew of degrading lyrics. Sad to say our society and even sadder to say our Youth thrive on OH's and AHH's and SHOCK instead of real Talent..... OOP's I just blew my age again, still I won't knock'em. Styles come and go to each his own.

ciby its all greek to me I like Sinatra type and classical and Rock in that order

GC, I like your tastes. Cibaeño, I was going to ask the same thing lol. I thought reggaetton was dead. First listened to that in 1993 I think, in the DR and still find it lame.

Daddy Yankee is overrated. I think Don Omar is way better!!!

Frankie baby! In my will Sinatra's I did it my way is to be played at my funeral I love that guy.
Bob Marley Frank Sinatra is on my playlist now

Music that contributes to gangsters and criminality. Musica de barrio with no education that influence in the mind of youngsters.

Edward, you are right. and so is cibaeno. reggaeton is simply the spanish version of dance hall reggae, nothing more, nothing less. it started in panama with guys like El General, who has roots in the ancestral home of dance hall, jamaica. it is not complicated.

Reggaeton, I personally did not listen to it on its early days, because yes, I thought it was simply "crap"... all songs seemed to have the same beat, all singers seemed to sound the same, imitating Jamaican Reggea accents in Spanish.. I would dance it in a club here and there if played, but listening to it was utterly disgusting, which realistically, in DR, it just appealed to "El Tigueraje" or "La Calle"...

now that said, ...reggaeton has grown extremely as a genre.. The beats have diversified, using different sound techniques that have allowed it to become more pleasant to the ears, "Looney Y Tunes" had a lot to do with that since they were one of the first to experiment in getting out of the "tra tra tra tra" style and implement sounds and rythms as used in Hip Hop/Rap and R & B.

The new reggaeton we know now is here to stay, just like Rap stayed, just like R & B has stayed. Why? Its fun and relative easy to dance, no need to impress in dance floor like FreeStyle required.

lovingit, i happen to agree with you. i have heard very creative offerins from the likes of Don Omar, and Arcangel, among others. now you can all get out the long knives, but the reggaeton beat allows for far more variation and creativity than bachata, in my opinion. reggaeton artists are using all kinds of sampling and synthesisers, and have come up with some riffs which cause me to listen over and over. bachata, on the other hand, relies too heavily on the traditional guitar riff, and too many songs sound just like each other. it is a genre, to my mind, which relies heavily on lyrics, like country and western. the music, from an instrumental standpoint, is a little sterile and repetitive. the same applies to reggaeton, especially when executed by mediocrities who cut a quick song for a quick buck.

such cerebral offerings Mozart is envious.....Basura basura and super basura

crap!(pronounced with the spanish r)

While I lay claim to the fact that I have never heard a raggaeton track that I like and agree that this music is crap with the "r" pronounced in any language, it just proves that one man's basura is another man's tesoro. A little research will uncover that the titled artist has performed to sold out shows in every country in Latin and North America, breaking all-time attendence records in Ecuador (60,000+) and Bolivia (50,000+). He has had top selling albums as far away as Japan and just last year had the highest selling album in any latin music category, routing the offerings of more supposedly accomplished artists, like Mana, Juanes and Juan Luis Guerra. He has even received a Time magazine top 100 most influential people in the world award. There are innumerable latin artists that wish to be this successful and very few that have been. The music may suck but the proven results and the majority of music fans sure don't think so.

nobody ever went broke underestimating the public...although he is a nice young man and a republican to boot

GC,
He is not a republican but he supported Senator McCain's presidential run because of the senator's stance on immigration issues and his advocacy for amnesty to illegal aliens through term work permits in a bill co-sponsored by Senator Ted Kennedy. Proof that you can be a wealthy staunch capitalist and still champion social justice issues without being a left wing zealot or communist sympathizer. lol.

P.S. The bill never made it out of Congress due to national uproar, although a committed President Bush assured that he would sign the bill had it made it's way to his desk.

devin I used to live in PR off and on and have a long loving relationship to it ....that said .I find Commonwealth status ? whatever that is ...to lack any dignity whatsoever ...I believe in Statehood or Independence...they keep presenting it to the people in the referendums as an economic issue and that statehood would diminish them ...I say it would empower them...the people of PR are very proud of their culture and would not be absorbed ...it would make it stronger....the other Hispanics would have a fit in their envy....but those two senators would be a Hispanic voice for all Latinos in America......what say you ?

I believe that commonwealth or free associated state are just status codes for an experiment in colonialism that has failed miserably. I believe that due to the existing relationship with the US, pre-dated to 1898, the people of PR should be given the opportunity to choose between statehood or independence only, eliminating the current status quo. I don't believe the people would lose their culture or cultural idiosyncrasies in the same way that Texas, Alaska and Hawaii have maintained their cultural philosophies since they became part of the American union. If the people were to choose statehood, I agree with you wholeheartedly that the Senators and appointed Congressional leadership will be strongly courted to help represent the interests of all Spanish speaking countries in the entire western hemisphere at Washington D.C. The political figures of a Puerto Rican state would agglomerate more campaign contributions than any other delegation in the entire US.

Thanks devin....my sentiments exactly

2008, non talented people are in vogue.............