Everyday I'm tempted to make a tragic-romance musical (like hadestown or wicked) but insted of the classic musical style is rancheras and boleros.
I am not going to ask anyone to learn spanish but please go and listen to at least one or two songs, google Alvaro Carrillo, and then search the translation of the lyrics. The songs are just feel with so much pasion, like they seem taken out of Romeo and Juliet or Devdas or any other love story that ends in tragedy.
In fact, you don't need to look, I've translated some songs! Here they are:
Like, Frank Sinatra, Natalie Cole, Nat King Cole, even EXO-K (sorry idk k-pop, i know sorry, i'm trying) have sing songs of the genre:
How are they not more popular!? (i know why, but still.)











