{"id":1873,"date":"2009-04-26T11:25:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T16:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:00:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:00:37","slug":"muy-adhoc-a-los-microbuseros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=1873","title":{"rendered":"Muy Adhoc a los Microbuseros"},"content":{"rendered":"

That was quick. <\/p>\n

Reflecting on our latest pandemic scare and remembering such topical tropical fare as 2003’s Sars Riddim<\/a>, I wondered aloud<\/a> “about 4 hours ago” who would be the first to come up with a swine flu inspired track. <\/p>\n

\/Jace<\/a> chatted me up shortly thereafter to say that he had already been sent a cumbia tune about swine flu. !QUE PRONTO! Seems like record time for this sort of thing (if not too surprising for the YouTube era). So when Siddhartha Mitter wondered the same<\/a> “about 1 hour ago,” noting that “brothers in c\u00f4te d’ivoire got to bird flu<\/a> before m.i.a. did,” I went in search<\/a> and very quickly found this — <\/p>\n

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Interestingly, most commenters seem pretty upset by the thing, offended by what they see as an opportunistic show of bad taste at a time of tragedy. (Not sure whether this has anything to do with the song’s bizarre incorporation of the Indiana Jones<\/em> theme.) This is true of the comments on the vid above as well as on this instantiation<\/a> (w\/ inferior img accmpnmnt). <\/p>\n

I did appreciate this perspective, though —<\/p>\n

jaja muy adhoc a los microbuseros… totalmente microbusera, jajaja xD xD ;) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I suppose that’s like a subgenre of cumbia, la microbusera<\/em>. !QUE ADHOC!<\/p>\n

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