Mexican songs or singers #12 (see the other songs on my last days posts) 12.- José Pérez León - Los Tigres del Norte Talking about Corridos, it’s not only about criminals or drugs, some of them are situations that describe some people’s lives and this one it’s not exception. It’s supposed that José was a guy living in Mexico, and was contacted by a cousin in USA to offer him a job there (del otro lado del charco). This song describes how some people leave their house looking for a better life, and that’s something you can achieve by being an immigrant in the US, because it’s easier than going to Europe or Canada, and the fact that a dollar is equal to lot of pesos makes people to go there for new or better things. Personally, I’m not completely against immigration but obviously there are ways to do that, but now the situation is going out of control so that’s not really helpful for the people in US even here in Mexico. There’s people that really wants to work an be a better person with better life by working hard, and there’s people that want earn more to spend that right away their boss is paying them. So this song talks about the first kind of person, the people that really want to work and be successful because here in the country sometimes there’s no big opportunities. Obviously this one is a sad story, because there’s lot of people that take advantage of people’s situations and just made them wasting not only money, sometimes even losing their lives, and that’s what happened with José. This song is kind of a masterpiece of Los Tigres del Norte, a Mexican Norteño band with long career in the Mexican music culture. https://youtu.be/ghBeXvbSJqQ?si=kcTGx0MibYxO_0LH Listen to the song and tell me your thoughts.