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So the country is all wrong

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Since I’ve got ten years of street cred as a non cheating husband ( that they know of) I can handle this gig planning on my own now

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ORIGINAL: Stu

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So the country is all wrong

There doesn't seem to be much wrong with the old ladies logic.

Accompany you to meet a lady who's had some previous, secret hanky panky, so as to protect you from any potential reputation damage?. Seems fair enough...[:D]

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ORIGINAL: Ricardo

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Since I’ve got ten years of street cred as a non cheating husband ( that they know of) I can handle this gig planning on my own now

[:D][:D]

Jeezus what drama, fuk. Look you need to convince everybody to just do sepuku as a group, this is shameful.

So here is my take. I get your sentiment, I had this same thing early on. The problem is over time I developed such a love and respect for the art of cante, and what it expresses and means, I gradually could not tolerate people doing it for the wrong reasons. I greatly prefer instrumental versions of the letras to bad or mediocre singing. It is a real horror for me. To be fair the way it progressed is that there were the Compás CDs of soler of all the typical palos that had the most generic set typical letras dancers like and or learned from their short workshops in spain that they bring back and “teach” to students. I realized that since the dance teachers that used these CDs in class when there was no musicians available needed to try to do a student recital with real cante and guitar, they had the singers learn the exact same letras. So the so called singers around town were all doing these letras from the CDs. These CD’s are available on YouTube and whatever Japanese tube sight you want, probable with lyrics printed out in the comments, etc. That is the what you are looking for, and you can just strum the chords and everybody “happy”…for a while.

When I realized this was the norm, I started to get disgusted by the whole concept. That is that the dance requires this little section for the letras that is set in stone. You don’t need a singer, it is like Karaoke, just do the chords form. OR, what I started doing for my sanity, is just do a mix of chord and melody that is based on the exact letra that you need. This is NOT hard and gets the job done, and no out of tune wailing of the wrong notes of the traditional cante to give you a headache. You can even develop a sophisticated version of a letra, or ignore the actuall cante melody and just make your falseta of your choice that is beautiful and fits the MATHEMATICS….cuz honestly that is what dance students need, not the depth of some story about a gypsy cousin you were in love with that had to marry an old doosh bag in the neighbor clan. Let the real cantaor do the proper singing as it should be, as rare as it might occur in your neck of the woods, and just treat dance as math. It is still fun and musically interesting IMO.

Or, sing your damn self…that is another option I have been exploring. I am no Camaron but at least I sing with feeling and the actual melody.

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ORIGINAL: ernandez R

**** Stephen, I don’t know wether to laugh of cry 🤣, keroki indeed!