You enjoy Bachata a lot A person can get the blues also Yes, you get the blues sometimes Bachata is a rhythm that you can listen to relaxed with a woman you like and you can express that you are in love Merengue and Bachata is what identifies the Dominican Republic The Merengue and Bachata are traditional Its just like the food If you have not eaten rice and coconut you have not eaten Here you could call it the "rice and beans" on a musical level For us Dominicans its something you have in the blood Something you feel and like you hear it, and feel the vibrations, you also dance it If you have a son and after the son does the same thing as you This means you have it in the blood because you inherited it When someone hears a Bachata and starts to dance that is having it in the blood. They enjoy it. You see them dancing and it enters in the bones, and you see how they step.
This is the "real" Bachata Its expression Through the dance you enjoy and feel (The music) The music is life I feel happiness, because I truly like it. So with something you like, when you dance it, you feel good. Some dancers have a bent over style Some are straight, some twisted to the left, and others to the right.
Everyone has their own way. You have to know about the Bachata that it is for enjoyment Its not to compete or do other things, its for enjoyment, to feel good Sometimes music makes you live passed lives, and you say "wow, this is my life! " You visualize yourself there.
Maybe a girlfriend you have that doesn't love you anymore I've seen a lot of men crying! Many people get the blues with Bachata, it sings of whats real It says the truth The Bachata is never going to disappear in this country Its a genre that is from here, the Bachata was born here So whatever music genre rises or falls Bachata will always be there The Bachata is culture In reality, our culture, just like Merengue So how would I describe it? Just this word.