Jennifer Lopez announces tour

[elegidadedios 1,826]

3 hours ago, StrawberryBlond said:

Those new dates were unexpected. She does dates in Eastern Europe and Asia, which always surprise me but these really are rarities. Kazakhstan and Armenia?! Reminds me of how she has a reputation of performing gigs for dictators birthday parties for big money. She's not even announced dates in the most obvious places like UK, France and Germany, but she will do Kazakhstan and Armenia? 

It's like, of course you like the big names, but it only works when they go to places like Madrid, Barcelona and maybe Bilbao as well. If they perform in little towns in the middle of nowhere, nobody would be interested. The rural areas are where it's more traditional and people like to keep music local, so it's a case of, if you want foreign music, go to the big cities to hear it. The sentiment is right - a lot of countries are grateful and honoured when a big name comes to their small province when they usually just go to the capital but it has to be relevant to the taste of the locals. It's strange, so many people consider her to be someone who puts on amazing performances and yet, she's always had very little touring demand. She didn't do her first tour til 2012! Even though she's been making hits since 1998!

Haha, I know a lot about Spain due to my mother studying the language and loving the culture. I studied Spanish into my senior years of school and can still remember a lot of it. And throughout my late teens and early twenties, I was always at a bodega bar and dance school which was run by a man who came from Gran Canaria and I'd always be seeing tango and flamenco performed in our showcases throughout the years. The only time I've actually been there was when I went to the wedding, like I said. My aunt and uncle moved to Malaga when they retired and some of my family are always going to Tenerife every year. Which part of Andalusia are you from? I probably passed through it that night! I've never been a fan of "Brits abroad" take on Spanish culture where Brits move there and don't learn the language and just take their own culture over but don't give anything back (that's why we like to clarify we're Scottish, not English!). Your culture is beautiful and more of us should appreciate it.

I LOVED reading the second part of this post 😭 totally unexpected and warming at the same time. You seem very genuine and we all love that here! I was born in Jaén but I've been living for many years now in Granada, the most beautiful city in Andalucía for me. I feel lucky to live here to be honest - even tho I'm considering to move out to Bilbao with my brother lol -. Glad to read you actually enjoy and appreciate our culture and you don't only come here for good fun! You clearly have a spanish related background and that's amazing  

PS: the scottish / not english part got me fr 

[StrawberryBlond 14,553]

3 hours ago, elegidadedios said:

I LOVED reading the second part of this post 😭 totally unexpected and warming at the same time. You seem very genuine and we all love that here! I was born in Jaén but I've been living for many years now in Granada, the most beautiful city in Andalucía for me. I feel lucky to live here to be honest - even tho I'm considering to move out to Bilbao with my brother lol -. Glad to read you actually enjoy and appreciate our culture and you don't only come here for good fun! You clearly have a spanish related background and that's amazing  

PS: the scottish / not english part got me fr 

Ah, Granada, that had the most major bus station I stopped at! And my aunt had seen a road sign further along and loudly declared in front of the packed bus of mostly Spaniards: "Where are we? Is this Barcelona?"  The Alhambra would have been lovely to visit if we had the time. So many people confuse it with Grenada when they book flights, as it turns out, and end up in the Caribbean! Thanks for the appreciation, I like to show that not all tourists just want to feel like they're at home except with better weather and clubs. My cousin lived in Tenerife for 2+ years but eventually had to leave when she couldn't survive on the small income she made as a cleaner as it was very hard to find employment when the most you can say is: "Dos vodkas con Diet Coke, por favor."  And yeah, the Scottish/English difference, if you know you know! No offence to English people reading this but I know their reputation as tourists in Spain isn't exactly great. There's even a comedy series here called Benidorm about these kinds of people!