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Te Amo, Te Odio: New Latin Songs Of Love And Hate

Paula Maffia is the lead singer of Argentina's La Cosa Mostra.
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Paula Maffia is the lead singer of Argentina's La Cosa Mostra.

In Spanish, they say there's a single step between love and hate; that the same intense passion fuels both emotions. This week on Alt.Latino, we explore both sentiments, and many that lie between.

We start with a Chilean band that adamantly wishes a former love would just get lost, but rapidly move on to a Mexican group that hopes a special lady never goes away. Also from Mexico, singer Carla Morrison recently premiered the video for "Eres Tú" ("It's You"), which celebrates gay marriage. Across the border, Austin's Royal Highness offers a chopped-and-screwed version of "Que Le Pasa A Mi Camión" ("What's Wrong With My Truck"), one of the strangest psycho-sexual cumbias we've ever heard. (In the singer's nightmare, his girlfriend has morphed into a truck, and he's unable to drive it.)

We close the show with an Argentine band's klezmer/swing reinterpretation of a Britney Spears hit — I'll give you a hint: She's stuck in a toxic relationship — while Chile's Manuel Garcia reminisces about the women he's loved and lost. Whether you're falling in love or stumbling into heartbreak's gutter, you ought to find something that speaks to you here.

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Dicen que del amor al odio hay un solo paso- que es la misma intensa pasión la que se esconde tras ambos sentimientos. Esta semana en Alt.Latino exploramos ambas emociones.

Comenzamos el programa con una banda de Chile y una lírica sobre alguien que desea de todo corazón que una ex novia se aleje para siempre y no vuelva más, pero seguimos con un grupo mexicano que con la misma energía, le suplica a una mujer que no se vaya jamás. También desde México hablamos con Carla Morrison, quien hace poco estrenó el video para su canción "Eres Tú", una celebración del matrimonio gay. Del otro lado de la frontera, la banda tejana Royal Highness nos ofrece una versión algo distinta de "Que Le Pasa A Mi Camión"- una de mis cumbias favoritas, por su bizarra sexualidad: el cantante tiene una pesadilla en la cual su ex novia se convierte en un camión.

Cerramos el show con una banda argentina que reinterpreta un éxito de Britney Spears en versión klezmer, y un cantautor chileno que recuerda, melancólico a todas las mujeres (y al parecer son muchas) que ha amado y perdido.

Sin duda todos nuestros oyentes se hallan en distintos estados emocionales cuando del amor se trata; pero ya estés en pleno enamoramiento o recuperándote de una ruptura del corazón- hallarás buena música que te acompañe en el programa de hoy.

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Jasmine Garsd is an Argentine-American journalist living in New York. She is currently NPR's Criminal Justice correspondent and the host of The Last Cup. She started her career as the co-host of Alt.Latino, an NPR show about Latin music. Throughout her reporting career she's focused extensively on women's issues and immigrant communities in America. She's currently writing a book of stories about women she's met throughout her travels.