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Long live the feminist reggaeton!
  • When we are immersed in the festivities of our peoples, the eternal question: What do you do when the reggaeton, the world's most infamous thing for women*, hears at five o'clock in the morning in the village's taverns and starts to shake my waistline without control? Are your veins cut?
Iraia Pereiro Urkijo Aiaraldea @aiaraldea 2019ko abuztuaren 26a

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah! A brief reflection: Reggaeton is a style of music, a rhythm, how can you be a machist by yourself a style of music? How on earth can a rhythm be insulting? I cannot understand that. No one can deny that there is an apology among the letters of the commercial reggaeton for the privileges of men over women* in a high percentage. But what about all the other musical styles? With pop, rock, indie, traditional Basque music?

This heteropatriarchate has robbed us of all walks of life, and yes, it's one of those music. But then, why is the reggaeton about to play? I would cite two main reasons: classism and taboo of sex. Where does this musical style come from? It is no coincidence that the origin of this fact is the streets of Latin America. Of course, if the song that leaves the woman underneath is sung by a wealthy white man, no one is surprised by it. Once again, the contributed phobia that this capitalist system has brought us to the bottom has deceived us. Here's the subtle face of classism, in front of us. And what can we say about explicit sex? What a problem we have with that! If in a soft letter disguised as poetry and romantic love man completely dominates the woman*, then it is beautiful. But when we talk about flesh, body, nudity… then the alarm sounds. We want to talk free of sex. Enough, hostile!

And yes, in our bars, in the scenes, in the txosnas -- when the songs with holy letters disappear, you don't know what party I'm going to ride, but let's not criminalize something that makes us enter the body and enjoy so much. Music is music, there's no better or worse. Let's transform, let's make our own, long live the feminist reggaeton!