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Music...tine week

  • majolatorre13
  • Feb 14
  • 3 min read

Week of 6 - 14 February

 

Happy Valentine’s Day or Galentines Day or whatever you want to celebrate today :)


Welcome back!


Collage of diverse people Kendrick Lamar, Karol G, PARTYNEXTDOOR, Drake, Selena Gomez, Sabrina Carpenter, Bon Iver, Chappel Roan with various expressions. Background has "Week Three Updates" text in blue. Different settings and styles.

This week started with the most-view Superbowl Halftime show in history. Kendrick Lamar made a historical, political and amazing show in New Orleans. With two music guests on stage, SZA and Mustard and two celebrity guests, Samuel Jackson and Serena Williams. The show was full of good and iconic moments that have been in the loop all over the internet. In more Canadian news, the Juno Awards nominations were announced on Monday, the Canadian Music Awards taking place on March 30th this year hosted by Michael Bublé have in their nominees well-known artists like Josh Ross, Shawn Mendes, Tate McRae, The Weeknd and more. See the full list here! 


Chappell Roan dreamt it and she made it. After her speech at the Grammys regarding the artists and how major labels don’t value them. Universal Music Group (UMG) and Music Health Alliance launched Music Industry Mental Health Fund, which promises to give a “comprehensive, high-quality outpatient mental health resources for music industry professionals nationwide,” Is this the first step to the major labels redemption with the new artists?


New and coming releases. Bon Iver’s new album will be released on April 11th. Justin Vernon announced this week that this is his first album with Bon Iver since 2019, we have a preview of the album today with their new single: Everything Is Peaceful Love.  Sabrina Carpenter is bringing her Short n’ Sweet (Deluxe) today, with five more songs for all the Carpenters. Finally, Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR’s album is here. With a special album cover with PARTYNEXTDOOR's hometown Mississauga and 21 tracks, the two Canadians are showing the world who they are and what they are made from.More new music today:

  • SOS Deluxe: LANA by SZA (Album).

  • Leave Me Too by Josh Ross.

  • Scared Of Loving You by Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco. (Album: I Said I Love You. First coming on March 21).

  • High Fashion by Addison Rae.

  • Love Is A Stillness by Sam Smith.


This week we’re going to skip the Charts Update. But if you are a music freak like me, don’t forget to check them! Interesting changes this week.

 

Latin spotlight:

When I started this I said I would be the most unbiased as I could. I have learned the importance of that in my journalism program. But since this week there is no big Latin event to bring here and it is February 14th, I have to show my favourite singer on her birthday. So FYI, this is a biased opinion and you will see my personal thoughts in this paragraph.

Karol G, the Latina who has shown the world the power that Latin America has, and more importantly Colombia. Most of you might know about reggaeton, and as popular it is right now all over the world, it wasn’t like that. The genre started in Puerto Rico with some influences in Panama. It was a sexist genre not only in their lyrics but also in the industry. In the late 90’s and early 2000’s it was a male-dominated music. Ivy Queen was the first woman to rap and sing in the urban Latin genres. She showed the world that women can also enjoy their sexuality freely as they want. They can be hot and sexy at the same time they are powerful and successful. All of this was happening when reggaeton was the music in the Latin ghettos, it was for a young generation related to crime and obscenity. With time it started to travel the world and break stereotypes. And It got to Colombia, the second house for this genre. In the 2000s a star was being formed, Carolina Giraldo Navarro AKA Karol G. She was part of Reykon’s crew as a backup singer. Then she moved on and started her single career. Since the beginning, she has shown her empowerment. It wasn’t easy but her career shows hard work and resilience. Now she is one of the most known Latin women singers around the world. From singing in schools and small events in Medellin, Colombia to being in the biggest stages all over the world. I could write about her pages and pages, but I’m sure you are not here for that. For a lot of people, she might be another reggaeton singer, but for most of us, she represents hard work, the empowerment of women in the music industry and the representation of all the Latinas around the world.


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See you next week <3


 
 
 

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