Michelle Santiago Cortés

Latina is not a monolith.

Right, exactly.

100%.

Zorro, yeah!

When it gets to like the gum chewing, it's just so cringe.

It's like watching Taylor Swift do hip hop.

So I think broad strokes.

I think it takes a lot of work to put like.

Rosalia's racial gymnastics next to her music.

The racial gymnastics that gets ethically ambiguous happens in the marketing promotion side versus the music itself.

Like you said Bilal, I feel like if you never saw Rosalia interview or any Rosalia press and you just knew the music, I don't think these conflicts would come up at all.

I'm not sure it does because I feel like Latin America, like the United States, is built on the same racial hierarchies and like the people in power in Latin America are also the white people.

Additionally, like Mexico City would not be the same as like Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic.

Like they don't have the same relationship.

Right.

And within Latin American culture, this is my issue with Latinidad as a concept because...

Places like Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Dominican Republic, when they interact with communities or cultures from South or Central America, it's a big question mark whether we even count as Latinx.

But all of this being said, I don't think it complicates it because at the end of the day, reggaeton is also an import in Mexico.

Reggaeton is also an import in Argentina, in Chile, pretty much anywhere that's not like Panama, Puerto Rico, New York.

I think that's probably the bigger factor in why she's popular in Latin America.