There is no prize for finding it except for my undying admiration for your good taste in music. I will know that you truly understand how Cuban music and regular life work:
- It's all about the chorus.
- We tend to repeat things we understand about life (over and over).
- We love to sing along, dance, and do all kinds of stuff with other people.
- We get really hooked on good (and bad) stuff and can't get it out of our minds.
- We start to really listen to a song/life when it gets to the chorus (the hook).
- It's all about improvisation, passionate abandon for the things/people that you love, and keeping yourself happy.
I lived in Puerto Rico a spell during the 1970s. I miss the environment that this type of music brings to mind. Mexico is not like this, at least not my part.
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