I have been so annoyed in the past few months by a certain type of music that I decided to write a blog post about it. "Huayno" is the local obsession in much of the Andean region in Peru. The vocals are ridiculous and make grown women sound like they are little girls giggling. A male voice usually accompanies the women in the background and he says the same line over fifty times in every song. Con todo el cariño de/With a lot of love from (village where he happens to be from) and Eso! Eso! Eso!/This is the good stuff! This is the good stuff! This is the good stuff! are the most likely phrases. The lyrics are almost always about broken hearts and runaway lovers, These singers are backed-up by an assortment of repetitive violin and harp lines. Every driver in the region is blaring this god-awful concoction of "melodies" wherever they happen to go. The stores in the streets, the trucks, the restaurants, everywhere is huayno. I got my first taste of the music in the first few weeks of traveling here. We drove in an over-crowded, dusty, 2WD van at 15,000 feet over some of the bumpiest roads in the region without water for five hours. I always had a sufficent headache. The huayno blaring over the radio made it a migraine. I now understand why they play a different form of Andean music for the tourists in Cusco. I doubt they would sell very many whino CDs. As harsh as I am on this stuff the locals love it, and I can't hate on that but, personally, I will not be downloading any anytime soon. Below is a link to some typical huayno.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi5syFGvnUA&feature=related
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