#gringatunes

I imagine that from a Colombian point of view, gringa music is slow songs sung by thin girly voices accompanied by an acoustic guitar or piano. And it’s true. But not the whole truth. I like Christina Perri, Lily Allen, Ingrid Michaelson, among others, but I also like a song I can shake it to or rap music that makes me feel really tough.

I should also add that Gringas like Latin pop music, generally the songs that everyone who speaks Spanish as their first language cannot tolerate. Except for Juanes, because he is rock, not pop (even though he sounds pretty poppy to me....). But for us, these songs are fantastic and they teach us many Spanish vocabulary words. Thanks to Latin pop, before I could even say the books are on the table, I had already learned how to tell someone that I'm so sorry for cheating, but that now here I am with a beso burning my lips for them if they would just leave that witch, that old worn out piece of leather they left me for and come back to me where I am drowning among photos and notebooks and things and memories that I can't understand.