Post by JohnGonzalez on Apr 19, 2005 11:06:28 GMT -5
IMHO TEJANO IS DEAD. Not the music, which I hope and Believe will live forever, but the name. As long as people insist on calling it Tejano, it will forever remain the dying sub genre of music it has become. Just like POLKA music, which once filled dance halls all over the midwest. Tejano is no longer cool. Much like the majority of the remaining fans of anglo POLKA music. Tejano music fans are going to become a bunch of viejitos reminiscing about the glory days of Selena.
POLKA musician and Grammy nominee Ed Blazoncyk of Ed Blazoncyk and the Versatones said regarding the music he loves and plays, The term "POLKA" is considered square, un hip, and needs different terminology. TEJANO has become very much the same. Duranguense like Banda and norteno before it, is considered all the rage now, Reggaeton and Regional Urbano artists are what the kids are buying not Tejano.
The key, everyone agrees, is bringing young people back. And if that doesn't work, Bobby Pulido has a radical idea to make Tejano cool again.
"We need to call Tejano something else," he says. "It's been branded as the failure. But if we call it something else, even though it's still that same music, we can stir up another marketing thing and that will help."
Abraham Quintanilla "All of a sudden, when all this is happening, Tejano becomes a bad word, a curse, so to speak, like the plague,"
Que Vive la onda - (fill in the blank)
POLKA musician and Grammy nominee Ed Blazoncyk of Ed Blazoncyk and the Versatones said regarding the music he loves and plays, The term "POLKA" is considered square, un hip, and needs different terminology. TEJANO has become very much the same. Duranguense like Banda and norteno before it, is considered all the rage now, Reggaeton and Regional Urbano artists are what the kids are buying not Tejano.
The key, everyone agrees, is bringing young people back. And if that doesn't work, Bobby Pulido has a radical idea to make Tejano cool again.
"We need to call Tejano something else," he says. "It's been branded as the failure. But if we call it something else, even though it's still that same music, we can stir up another marketing thing and that will help."
Abraham Quintanilla "All of a sudden, when all this is happening, Tejano becomes a bad word, a curse, so to speak, like the plague,"
Que Vive la onda - (fill in the blank)