Last night, I went to a concert at Luna Park featuring four prominent Reggaeton artists including Makano, La Factoria and Eddy Lover. The venue (Luna Park) is quite small for concerts, probably with a capacity of only 5,000 but the concert was great. There were a lot of "villeros" (younger men and women from the poorer areas of the city who have a very distinct style of dress, way of talking, etc.) there, but they were all well behaved.The performers played a number of songs that are on the radio here every day, such as Te Amo, Perdoname and Dejame Entrar en tu Corazon. Reggeaton is not as popular in Argentina as it is Colombia, the Dominican Republic or Puerto Rico, but the crowd went wild at the start of every song and seemed to know all the lyrics.
In a nutshell, Reggaeton is latin music that combines hip hop with rap (mostly in Spanish but with some English woven in). It became popular in the 1990's and its lyrics are often very erotic in nature, but not always.
My friend Jaime and I had seats without numbers (unassigned) and we ended up sitting behind our new friend Claudia, a 46 year old who thought she was 20, and her four friends. The nickname for middle-aged/older women who act/dress younger to appeal to younger men here is called a "pendevieja," which is a combination of two words - pendeja (which is slang for a young woman) and vieja (which means old). She turned out to be a lot of fun and we laughed a lot throughout the concert. Enjoy the video and the photos.
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