There are maybe three people reading this who will understand the TOTAL FREAKY COOLNESS of this

[lolaraincoat]

Okay, I spent way too much time today tracking down Spanish-language music videos about Obama. I have a vague idea about an article but basically I am just too tired to do my actual work.

So anyway. I found this. It will only make sense to those of us who know the oeuvre of Pedro Infante and can appreciate the sheer utter brilliance of pasting in George Bush where Jorge Negrete ought to be inDos Tipos de Cuidado. Which I guess is likely to be just me, twotoedsloth, and maybe logovo. But believe me when I tell you, this is fabulous.


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Comments

[logovo.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, I have to see this!

[lolaraincoat.livejournal.com]

So, what did you think?

[logovo.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, it was equal part bizarre and cool -- and appropriate!!!

[le-mousquetaire.livejournal.com]

lol.

[mulberryfields.livejournal.com]

No, it's pretty great for someone with no context too, actually.

On a completely different note except for it being in Spanish and in re: Obama, you got this from idlerat, right?
Viva Obama

[idlerat.livejournal.com]

Nope, not from me.

We have been trying to call you on the telephono...

[lolaraincoat.livejournal.com]

You have? whyfore no message?

[lolaraincoat.livejournal.com]

I did! And it plus the reggaeton and the salsa vids may yet someday be the basis for an article. I love it.

[mincot.livejournal.com]

Seriously way cool for geeky academics with no context!

[lolaraincoat.livejournal.com]

If you had the context it would be even cooler! See, Pedro Infante (the body underneath Obama's face in the vid) was the most important male movie star/singer in Mexico, ever. Like John Wayne and Elvis in one package. And he, famously, liked to play cross-race parts - in his last movie he was a humble Indian servant (it was awful) and before that he starred in the Mexican version of ... oh, hell, what was the name of the 1930s tearjerker movie where the rich woman, who is passing as white, refuses to acknowledge that the African-American maid is really her mother? So it's really interesting to have him as Obama, anyway. All of this is further complicated by the weird relations between African-Americans and Mexicans (at least in Mexicans' public discourse it's a weird relationship) and and and ...

I dunno. It's just really interesting, is all.

[twotoedsloth.livejournal.com]

Hee hee hee hee hee!

Is that just supposed to be a gringo accent, or is the pronunciation affected by having his head cut in half?

[lolaraincoat.livejournal.com]

Both!

[idlerat.livejournal.com]

Please ignore BOTH MY PREVIOUS COMMENTS.

[lolaraincoat.livejournal.com]

OKAY I WILL!!!

[themodestokid.livejournal.com]

I don' understand it. (Don't speak spanish, don't know who Sr. Infante is, don't know what "Dos Tipos de Cuidado" is.) And yet it seems awesome.

[themodestokid.livejournal.com]

(Is it kind of a Mexican version of the dueling banjos scene from Deliverance?)

[lolaraincoat.livejournal.com]

No, more like - okay, look, imagine if The Searchers was a wacky musical comedy. That's Dos tipos de cuidado. It IS awesome. Everything Pedro Infante ever did was awesome. To have someone identify him with Obama ... there is no greater compliment possible, I'd argue, within the confines of Mexican popular culture. One of Infante's biographers once remarked to me (though I'm sure it's a line he uses all the time) "Oh, Pedro Infante? He's the Virgin of Guadalupe's boyfriend." He's just that big a deal.