When we first met all those months ago I was so naive. You seemed to be everything I wanted in a genre, you had all the best bits from all those other genres I've fallen in love with and you used them so well! The way you mixed Latin and Reggaeton influences, the way you seemed to be effortlessly cool and endlessly upbeat - I loved it all.
I still remember the first time we met (on the Brodinski introduction to Moombahton mixtape) and I knew from that first drum sound that this was real love. You brightened a cold, dreary March and made me feel like we could live in an endless summer!
Since then I've followed you everywhere (although mainly on twitter). I've brought you into my bedroom, just to blast you from the speakers 12 hours a day. I was even ready to try and introduce you to my family, see if they liked you as much as I did. But I see now that I was wrong, you are not the Moombahton I met at the start.
It seems as though your Latin side was just a pretence, a trick to draw in the ladies and make them swoon only to have them find out that underneath you're not Latin at all, your just the American cousin of Dubstep pretending to be Latino. All those 'whomp whomp' sound effects aren't so cool when you're just copying someone else.
And I know it's hard to go out on the streets, to believe in yourself, make your mark, but just because it's hard at first doesn't mean you have to go copy all the other guys, the 'tough' guys, the guys who rule all the dancefloors. You can get there too - you just have to be patient! Except now everyone just sees you like Dubstep's little brother, acting like you're different but secretly desperate to be just as good. I liked you more when you were arrogant enough to think any song would be better just to have tasted you. Now that era is just a trail of abandoned remixes.
But it's ok - I understand, this is what happens to a genre when it starts to meet the masses. It has to adapt, bend to fit in, stop carving a niche and start to put itself in all the holes already carved for you. I mean look at when everyone's favourite next big indie band start to go too 'pop'.
And yes I know, like the indie bands, this isn't all your fault and it isn't the same for everyone. In fact that friend of yours, Moombahsoul, seems to be doing pretty well at the minute and, you know, she's kinda cute.
I guess what I'm saying is that we need to take look at our relationship. I don't think I'm getting out of it what I wanted and that upsets me, but I understand you want the chance to follow the path your on - who doesn't want to be successful? So I'm gonna go mess around with your friends a bit, and maybe I'll come back in a few months or so? Although if you still haven't changed, it might be over for us.
I hope you understand - but really it's not me, it's you.
Yours
Lucy
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