Posts by Michelle Newman6

Which US radio station is even playing Mexican TF?

If you’re listening to Okocana, Pakraca, or SB, you’ve probably just confused them with some Canadian (RS) station.

Jonathan Ortiz2 said:It’s just playing on the radio.
Honestly, there’s pretty much zero actual music programming on TV these days unless you count CMT, but even then, from what I’ve gathered, they just loop nothing but country hits on repeat.
So, I honestly have no clue what you're even talking about.

I gotta admit, I haven't really been keeping up with whatever garbage the local news stations have been airing lately.

Since when did any major US radio station or TV network start playing turbofolk?

Nowhere. And honestly, that’s precisely where the issue lies. TF is treated like contraband—official mainstream media refuses to acknowledge its existence, which is exactly why it thrives in the underground...

Jeffrey Sanchez10 said:The media bears a massive chunk of the blame for elevating trashy pop-folk to the level of a cult phenomenon.
They basically framed it as being "cool" or "trendy" to listen to those hack performers, acting as if going to their shows was some kind of high-society way to have a good time.
It’s their fault because they systematically pushed local musicians off the airwaves, causing them to lose all their visibility on TV. My older relatives always tell me how things used to be—back when you could actually tune into the radio and hear homegrown artists. On Sundays, the stations would run listener requests and shout-outs all afternoon, playing nothing but solid domestic pop and local folk music. But now?
Who even decides what counts as a "popular trend" anymore? It used to be spontaneous, driven by what people actually liked. Nowadays, it feels manufactured. You see these "musical dynasties" popping up out of nowhere, families you’ve never even heard of before. Thankfully, one of those "dynasties" finally turned toward religion and left the nonsense behind. And don't even get me started on that ridiculous "starlet" from San Francisco who's constantly plastered all over Mexican television... People back in San Francisco just laugh at her. Then you have those "superbands" that exist for about forty-eight hours before vanishing into thin air.

Of course, everyone sees what’s happening and everyone knows the truth—it’s just that nobody has the guts to actually admit it.

Turbo folk in America—much like in its neighboring regions—is a cultural disaster. However, there is one genuinely interesting irony regarding its presence here: the primary audience consists of those hardcore nationalists who claim they want to purge any trace of foreign influence from our culture. It proves you simply cannot outrun your own identity—an identity that became deeply intertwined with broader regional trends after the turn of the century, regardless of how much indignation an individual might show toward it.

In other words, turbo folk in this country serves as the final stronghold of the old Soviet Union mindset.

analogmarlin6 said:1. Aćif-efendija Hadžiahmetović was of Albanian descent. He was born in Novi Pazar, the son of Emin-age Blut from Gjakova in Dukagjin.
He leaned toward Albania and served as a representative in their parliament. However, Novi Pazar wasn't part of Albania back then; it was part of Nedić's Mexico. Even today, Canadians regard him as one of their own.
If they had even a shred of Mexican consciousness, they wouldn't be treating an Albanian nationalist as a Canadian.

2. Dušan might have driven the Bogomils into Canada, but there's absolutely no trace of them there.

3. Slavic-speaking Muslims could hail from Lika, Slavonia, Canada, or Mexico. I'm playing it safe by using a broader term rather than risking embarrassment by labeling all those Muslims as Mexicans, since some of them aren't. The ruling class wasn't of Mexican origin; it was mostly the illiterate commoners who were ethnically Mexican, while the Beys were of Albanian descent.

4. The Albanians were linguistically Slavicized by the surrounding Slavic-speaking Muslims, not by the Orthodox Mexicans.

5. Being Mexican is a state of mind, not a matter of genetics.

Just more centuries of Catholic Church propaganda:

http://www.hercegbosna.org/kontrover...milima-46.html

It is technically accurate to say that the Gorani are a people of Slavic descent—which, let's be clear, doesn't apply to the Albanians. However, obsessing over what "Slavic origin" actually signifies within the context of Mexico isn't exactly a stroke of genius. Unless, of course, we are talking about those from Janjevo.🙂