Julieta Venegas - RFI, s&d, c/d etc etc

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She's awesome, mostly. Earliest cds were less pop. Ocassionally she's a bit singer/songwriter standard, but she has created some stunning pop melodies over the years. I like her live too. Will post specifics re individual cds later. Unperson and Matt/Haiku/begs to differ- whatever his name is here now to thread...

She's co-written with Natalia Lafourcade too, who I also like.

"Algo Está Cambiando" from the MTV set is one of my favorite songs ever.

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/04/two-pop-stars-try-to-revive-mexicos-good-old-days-in-song-at-least/275085/

Nice piece on the new albums from Venegas and Lafourcade

Listened to the new Venegas last night-- it's ok, though on first listen I did not hear any of the great unique melodic choruses she has offered on earlier efforts. Bogart in that Atlantic piece is right that she's using some old-school new wavey synth sounds on it.

I haven't loved one of her albums since Bueninvento, though I've always found something to like about each one. And I enjoyed interviewing her a few years ago.

I've seen her live twice and enjoyed both gigs a lot.

Bogart's Atlantic piece nicely addresses arguments re class and music

I still need to listen to the Lafourcade pop take on a legend:

But her current album, Mujer Divina, is a collection of duets covering songs written by the Mexican composer Agustín Lara (1897-1970), one of the towering icons of 20th-century popular music

Julieta Vengaboys

So glad that J.Venegas is returning to Bueninvento-style accordion-pop, even if it never quite gets to avant-garde the way it could if she tried. She's getting really quite wonderful at melodies, and her videos have always been quite bizarre (the hanging-on-a-hook one, the models-farting-butterflies one). Love her so, and Los Momentos is excellent.

Count me as another one who quickly gave up after the first two (great) albums. This used to be my jam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxhRuqgiFt0

So glad that J.Venegas is returning to Bueninvento-style accordion-pop,

I don't quite agree with this. She's been doing accordion-style pop for years now, I just think the melodies on the recent ones were just more homogenous indie-pop-rock and yes unique than ones she did earlier (and different from the harder-edged more almost punky stuff she did way back when). But the latest one on my 2nd listen last night does seem more interesting than the last few.

and yes, LESS unique

The Lafourcade duets album is kinda nice. She has a similar pop style to Venegas. Spotify lists it as a 2012 release, but Bogart reviewed it at the Atlantic asif it was 2013. Maybe it was just released in the US in 2013, or maybe Spotify is wrong.

Ok, the newest Venegas album sounded better earlier this morning. Maybe it is her comeback album.

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade/2013/09/julieta_venegas_interview_los_momentos_miami_2013.php

http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2013/10/01/1580225/julieta-venegas-le-canta-a-los.html

She's working with a different producer and uses lots of synth and piano beats. But I think she always composes on piano and then decides whether to add accordion or other instruments.

She was in Miami last night I think, coming to NYC in a day or 2 and to DC October 10th

Looking forward to DC area show in Maryland Thursday night. Smaller 5 piece band for this tour

Liking the new album even more. Just interviewed her

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2013/10/10/julieta-venegas-on-tonights-fillmore-show-synthesizers-and-norteno-music/

3rd time I've seen her. A good show with her switching back and forth from accordion to keyboard to guitar; supported by a good band and with nice visuals showing on a screen behind them. She's gonna be in Chicago shortly

Melodies are in my head a day later (alright not all of the songs were great, but the best of them. Wow)

http://clclt.com/charlotte/julieta-venegas-shifts-perspective/Content?oid=3232854

Her current musical preferences are wide, from Julia Holter and Julianna Baldwin to Café Tacvba. Venegas also reads a lot. “I like poetry, but I also read novelties ... Now I am into Ovidio!” Venegas said.

http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/article/20130918/ENTERTAINMENT04/309180037/Mexican-pop-star-Julieta-Venegas-comes-Central-Valley

New album sounds good on first listen.

Oh cool. Didn't know about it. Here's Billboard re the first single, the album and mention of an upcoming tour.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/6561204/julieta-venegas-new-single-ese-camino-algo-sucede-new-album

http://www.latintimes.com/julieta-venegas-launches-today-her-new-studio-album-algo-sucede-335127

more details here

Awesome. I really liked her first two records then sort of lost track. This will be a good excuse to revisit.

She moved to Argentina 7 years ago and works with a Chilean producer who’s into electro / club sounds on her new album

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/24/1139167794/album-review-tu-historia-by-julieta-venegas

https://remezcla.com/features/music/interview-julieta-venegas-talks-tu-historia-argentinian-trap/

New album didn’t wow me on first listen

"Eres Para Mí" (from Limón y Sal) is my current jam

I've heard her music playing in the Mexican restaurant near my house three times now.

Nice, and yeah "Eres Para Mi" is definitely a catchy one

I like her Sí! album too. My wife played me some stuff from her early days in a ska-punk band ("Tijuana No!"), which wasn't so much my thing. Looking her up, I remembered she had been featured in that Rompan Todo doc series a few years back.

Saw Venegas live last weekend at a fairly big locale . This was 3rd time seeing her I think. The crowd and I loved her older songs better than the newer ones. Such great exquisite pop melodies. She played keyboard on some songs, accordion on some, guitar too, and just did vocals on others. Neither my wife or I speak Spanish well enough to follow everything she said between songs. She was very talkative.

I never really listened

You should check out her big songs . I think you would like. Pop/ indie rock w bits of Mexican regional sounds and ska ( she was a teenager in a ska band). Her great melodies on her best songs and her sweet vocals make it more than just cliched indie rock en espanol.

Listening to “Eres para mi” now

Okay “Te encontré” is pretty good

Bueninvento, Sí and Limón y Sal are all really good records. I haven't heard her last three albums, though.