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Did you know that Bachata is actually banned in the Dr for
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about 30 years, the dictator at the time.
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But Rafael Trujillo and the upper classes spies Bachata.
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They saw it as vulgar and too sensual,
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all the dance moves,
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the, the, the moans that is,
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I don't know, that's the kind of music.
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So during Trujillo when he was,
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you know, when he was in power,
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Bachata was effectively banned.
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So it was not played on Dominican radio or TV,
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until after he died,
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which was in 1961 I believe.
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Yeah, 1961. So it still grew in popularity in poor
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neighborhoods though where songs about sex,
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heartbreak or despair connected with people's struggles.
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till this day relatable as fuck.
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But I mean, brother look at Mexico,
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Mexico with Narco Corridos.
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Even the Corrido stars like Peso Pluma Nacao and places like Tijuana
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and Chihuahua have actually banned the genre for promoting gang violence.
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That's why it's Estan Minado left and right.
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Yeah. Like with Fuera Reisa recently too,
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and even the the seventies and the eighties,
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Argentina banned popular rock songs you know,
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from like bands like Queen and Pink Floyd.
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Yeah. Apparently their dictatorship thought that they were going to corrupt
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people and inspire rebellion.
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Get people fired up the bright side.
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That's why national rock in Argentina started to take off like we
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got. So the sta over Anglo music and during slavery,
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Cuba was one of the few places to allow enslaved people to
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play drums, becoming the foundation for genres like Dim and Guan
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Guan. However, in 2012,
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reggaeton was officially banned,
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the government found the entire genre with its overtly sexual lyrics vulgar
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and demeaning. It eased up a bit in the years since
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but still prohibits reggaeton artists from appearing on most state run TV
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and radio or recording in state run studios.
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No. Reggaeton, no reggaeton,
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my friend in Chile in the seventies and the eighties,
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the dictator Pinochet banned left wing protest music called Nueva Cancion.
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He also banned indigenous instruments that used to play the genre like
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the Andean guitar charango too from Calle Trece.
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He once claimed that his home country of Puerto Rico banned his
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concerts, his home country,
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so not the genre but him,
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his performance. Yes.
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And this was after he criticized Governor Luis G Fortuno for a
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plan to lay off thousands of state employees.
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So I guess it was something personal.
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it's not like all this music is unbanned now though.
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So you can't keep us down.
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We need that we stay per turn up,
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turn up, let's move on.
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