"Somos más Americanos" or, brutally translated, "We're more American". Song by "Los Tigres del Norte". Listened to it a couple hours ago. I really think I need to say something about it, so I will.
I feel pretty bad about this song. A song ranting about how Mexicans actually should own Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, California and whatnot. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to say it was a a nice move from the Americans to go ahead ravage and ransack Northern Mexico more than a 150 years ago. It was -rude-. Using more eloquent words: Inhuman, savage, merciless, harsh; it was plainly impolite. I stand by what I say, but I still feel a weird mix of staggering pity and amusement when I listen to it; I get scatterbrained. Simple.
I believe I should actually be supporting the song, they are right after all, but I don't. I just can't. Maybe the way in which they express it doesn't suit me, maybe it's just the fact they are Mexican and maybe I'm racist and I haven't noticed yet. I just can't seem to feel like they have a real purpose singing it. It's not the work songs the slaves chanted while working on the plantations down in Louisiana complaining how the whips of their masters were too hard on their backs. That's a good reason to complain, right? I don't feel as if they have a good reason to, even if they do.
Oh well... Music is ever-developing. In the end I shouldn't and won't have a complete or logical opinion about this song, nor about any.
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