Bonus Episode: The blessing and curse of the '90s Latin Pop Explosion

Code Switch

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4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Our play cousins at NPR's It's Been a Minute podcast reexamine the so-called "Latin explosion" of the late '90s: What it was supposed to be for audiences across the U.S., and what it actually came to represent.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Christina Kala, a producer on the Code Switch team.
0:03.6	This week, we brought you an episode all about Latin music.
0:07.7	In it, we asked, what even is Latin music?
0:11.0	If you missed it, go check it out.
0:13.0	It's really good.
0:14.0	I promise I'm not biased.
0:15.8	And if you love that episode and want more,
0:18.2	check out this awesome episode about the Latin pop
0:20.6	explosion of the 1990s.
0:22.8	It's from our friends at MPRs.
0:24.5	It's been a minute podcast.
0:26.1	You get to hear some JLo, some Ricky Martin,
0:28.5	some really good bops.
0:35.4	Let's go back to February 24, 1999.
0:39.6	I can recall this night in detail because that was a night
0:43.0	the Grammys were broadcast that year.
0:45.6	And in terms of award shows, those 41st annual Grammy
0:48.6	awards had everything.
0:51.1	This was a night Lauren Hill won five Grammys,
0:54.1	including an album of the year for the miseducation
0:56.9	of Lauren Hill.
0:59.3	And an album that truly got me through high school.
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