How do you sing the rancheras? You may not do it wrong but in how many languages can you do it, A content creator teaches what some of the classic songs sound like for Mexicans in French and it goes viral on TikTok.
It’s about the user Magui the Mexicaine Prof who belongs to the community of content creators who educate, is a Mexican polyglot, a language teacher who speaks four languages fluently, and six in total (Spanish, English, French, Italian, Korean and Portuguese).
Diana Margarita or Magui, As he is affectionately called, he makes various videos on the TikTok platform, where he helps his followers learn languages, entertaining comparisons between them and even more personal content such as stories from his daily life, among others. In general, he is well received. of his audience.
A few days ago he performed what can be called a cover of the classic song “No news” originally performed by the acclaimed Linares Cadets, that are part of the identity of what today makes up the Mexican region.
Magui gave this song a twist, singing it in French in a video that went viral almost immediately. This tiktok already has 1.2 million views and more than 180 thousand likes and almost 3 thousand comments.
The Cadetes de Linares song, It came out in 1979 and evokes a love that seems to be gone, making Mexicans third for decades, especially with the different covers that have been made over the years, uOne of the most famous is that of Valentín Elizalde.
Why this song is almost perfect on the track, even though it is in another languagea, it is something that perhaps Magui should answer, but it could be because Spanish and French are both Romance languages, That is, they share a branch of other previously spoken languages, an evolution of Vulgar Latin, which makes them phonetically similar, that is, they sound almost the same.
The users of this application praised and humored the young woman’s interpretation, mentioning things to merge the two cultures. “To sing it under the Eiffel tower in Apodaca” or “songs that I will play when I open a cantina in Paris.”
Likewise, the young woman was asked for other covers of Mexican songs in French, such as “Belleza de Cantina” by the Cardinals of Nuevo León or “Nieves de Enero” by Chalino Sánchez.
The young woman commented that she would put them on her list, and it seems that she did fulfill it because she has uploaded a second cover but now of the song “Mi Tesoro” by Relámpagos del Norte, mentioning that “Definitely an iconic song that is worth sharing and continuing to enjoy.”
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Result of his charisma, creativity and talent, Magui already has almost 230 thousand followers on TikTok and in general it does not receive bad comments. La regia has many interesting videos and promises to upload more cover songs, so if you are interested in this content you can go follow her at @profmexicaine.