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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Dead horse, etc. But I have to say to dtb that, while I can understand your concern that people not lump all latinos into the same group (I just can't tell them kind of people apart), you have to understand that for people who are not into the music that Enrique and Marc produce and who basically only are exposed to them because of who they happen to date (and/or marry), they tend to overlap, much the way Lindsey Lohan and Hilllary Duff would overlap in the minds of people who don't watch a lot of teen angst movies. My saying that I didn't know they were different people was short-hand for "I don't know either of their songs"/not my thing, whatever. TM telling NFH that she is ignorant for not knowing their music or not knowing that it has received all sorts of world acclaim over the top to me. I mean, do we all have to know everything about genres of music that we don't appreciate? Can I take a Celine Dion fan to task for not being able to tell the difference between Coldplay and Radiohead? I mean, I know I can take a Celine Dion fan to task for being a Celine Dion fan. That just goes without saying.
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Hmmmm. I agree with the Hillary Duff/Lindsay Lohan thing I suppose, but I think TM was taking nfh to task because of her statement that they were talentless has-beens (or something like that), and that they were nobodies and not very popular. She was stating it as a fact, when in actual fact, they are hugely popular in their markets, and Enrique Iglesias is huge even in the United States. I think his point was that just because she doesn't like them/they're not her thing doesn't mean they're unsuccessful losers who have never amounted to anything. All it means is that she doesn't like them -- no big whoop.
Of course, I can't disagree with your last two sentences.
