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the ballad that turns outlaws into legends and history into something you can dance to
means A corrido is a traditional Mexican narrative folk ballad, typically in waltz time, that recounts real or legendary events — revolutions, heroes, bandits, love, and tragedy — in story form set to music.
from From Spanish corrido, the past participle of correr, "to run" — the same Latin currere that gives us "current" and "course." The name fits a song that runs along, telling its tale in a steady gallop of verses. The form flowered in 19th-century Mexico, drawing on the older Spanish romance (the storytelling ballad) and bursting into full voice during the Mexican Revolution, when corridos carried news, grief, and reputations across a country on horseback.
- origin
- Born during the Mexican Revolution as musical news reports
- narco shift
- Evolved into narcocorridos chronicling cartel exploits
- banned airwaves
- Several Mexican states outlaw playing certain corridos publicly
- global charts
- Corridos tumbados now top Billboard with millions of streams
- structure
- Traditionally opens by announcing date, place, and protagonist
corridos tumbados — mexican music subgenre popularized by natanael cano and peso pluma starting around 2018
corrido prohibido — 1992 album by los tigres del norte that defined the narcocorrido genre in mainstream mexican music