Castígala! [Punish her!]
Dale un latigazo! [Hit her with the whip!]
Ella se está buscando el fuetazo! [She's looking for a lashing!]
Castígala! [Punish her!]
Dale un latigazo! [Hit her with the whip!]
En la pista te voy a dar... [On the dance floor I will give you...]
Yo pal' de azotazos y palmetazos! [...a couple of beatings and slap her with the palm of my hand]
Dale un latigazo! [Hit her with the whip!]
Ella se está buscando el fuetazo! [She's looking for a lashing!]
Castígala! [Punish her!]
Dale un latigazo! [Hit her with the whip!]
En la pista te voy a dar... [On the dance floor I will give you...]
Yo pal' de azotazos y palmetazos! [...a couple of beatings and slap her with the palm of my hand]
Just the opening salvo from reggaeton singer Daddy Yankee's hit "Latigazo" (video above). And that's as a prelude to singing about sharing the submissive girl with a friend and describing how she asks to be beaten-up again while having sex with him!
Yeah, I know. Pretty par-for-the-course when it comes to reggaeton. Thing is earlier today Mr. Daddy 'Let's-beat-up-that-girl-on-the-dance-floor" Yankee endorsed Republican presidential candidate John McCain in front of dozens of adoring, giggling and screaming teenage girls at a hush-hush event closed to the general public.
And guess what! A beaming McCain fully accepted the endorsement (see video below).
Not that we expect McCain to be a reaggaton fan or to even know Daddy Yankee (or what he sings about) but this is up there with McCain inardevertedly offering his wife Cindy McCain as a contestant for a topless beauty pageant at a biker's rally. Yikes!
By the way, Marisol has a different take on this endorsement even as we both agree that it might backfire on McCain:
Rather than addressing the social realties that reggaeton speaks to and represents, it remains easier for certain segments of the Latino/a community to dismiss reggaeton and the culture around it as an aberration of Latinidad. It's crazy because in a way this whole Daddy Yankee - McCain thing made me think about the way's in which Latinos/as are climbing over each other for a piece of that Americano Dream. At whose cost are Latinos/as representing themselves as idealized American citizens? (Excerpt from "Los Republicanos, pt. Deux" - Post Pomo Nuyorican Homo, August 25, 2008)
Update:
Related:
- Daddy Yankee Comes Out... As a Young Republican and for McCain (Rod2.0)
- McCain endorser blends reggaeton with 'gangsta rap' (Raw Story)
- Is a John McCain - Daddy Yankee ticket forthcoming? (Los Angeles Times)
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nooooooooooooooo not my Ramón!
That's some clueless GOP strategist thinking, "Hey, we'll get the Hispanic vote!"
I think this endorsement might actually show some interesting divisions along lines of race and class within the "Latino Vote." I just wrote a piece at Post Pomo Nuyorican Homo, about how Daddy Yankee and reggaeton might not jive with some conservative Latinos/as notions of "success" and Latinidad.
Check it out...
http://postpomonuyorican.blogspot.com/2008/08/los-republicanos-part-duex.html
At least we know why Hillary didn't get the Latino vote, esp. the reggaeton fans. LOL.
Ah, the party of Family Values never ceases to disappoint.
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