So this is an awesome song. This group has taken "Para Elisa" and morphed it into a popular style of music down here called "Cumbia." One word to describe cumbia- Sketchy . . . or in Chile, the term used is "fleite." Fleite can be used to refer to people, a bar, a style of clothes, music, etc.
The other kinda pop-ish music is raegatton.
Comparison:
Same song but the first is raeggaton and the second is cumbia. (sometimes the first one below doesn't appear, if you are an avid reader you will hit refresh until it does.).
Cumbia is a style of music that can be found all across Latin America but originated in Colombia where the origins of the style come from the slaves from Africa who were brought over by the Spanish and mixing with the indigenous culture. Each country in Latin America has variations of cumbia, due to each country's distinct development, traditions, and instruments native to the region.
What's interesting is that cumbia in Chile and especially Argentina is associated with the lower classes. In Argentina it is called "Cumbia villeria" because it is a breed of cumbia that comes out of the villas miseria which I touched upon a while back. A lot of the cumbia villeria glorifies themes such as theft and drug abuse. If a Chilean hears you listening to cumbia or raeggaton, it is very very odd to them. I guess it is the equivalent of a middle-class white kid listening to hardcore gangster rap . . . it just doesn't seem to make sense because they can't relate with the material.
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