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It is true that people in the 21st century are exposed, in a single month, to the same amount of music or sound as any person in a lifetime in the 17th century, but so much is missing that it is already being compared to the lambada. But such is the absence that they would already be comparing it to the lambada. What happened to reggae, the Jamaican rhythm par excellence? With the lambada we wondered if it was a genre or a song. The curiosity, now that Bob Marley would be turning 80, is: why isn't reggae being made anymore? Why doesn't marijuana make reggae anymore?
Surely there are better things to do before trying to figure out what drug the artist was on when he recorded this or that album. Here they didn't sing to a doorknob, but more or less: national reggae becomes popular in Argentina with Los Pericos and El ritual de la banana. That was the closest we got to Africa.
Then a bunch of guys with dreadlocks appeared and it became fashionable not to be virtuous, all wearing the same straitjacket. All united and trite in a sound that didn't even cause discomfort or discomfort.
At the time it was scientifically proven that men...