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Shit on it as much as you’d like, but ranchera music’s popularity is simply staggering, especially in LA. For those of you who don’t know what ranchera music is, and God bless if you don’t, it’s basically every song you’d here at a mexican restaurant. It’s that stuff that has a lot of accordion and maybe some horns. Awful, just awful.

It’s everywhere in LA, too. I guesstimate have of the radio stations here play that shit. Literally, half. Every single pickup truck from the 70s filled to the brim with day laborers that I see, and I see a lot, is just blaring that shit.

I hate to label a type of music as shit but, well, it is. Basically, you know your music is shitty when an accordion is its primary instrument. I considered the notion that it’s a cultural difference and well, basically, it is. But, that doesn’t make it right. Ranchera music has been popular for almost a century and seemingly without much change, at least according to my Caucasian ears. It’d be like me listening to, well shit, I don’t even know what kind of music white people listened to one hundred years ago. Music tends to evolve pretty quickly, which I guess is exactly my point.

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