Check out This Selena Quintanilla-inspired Music Video to Urge Latinos to Vote
A Selena Quintanilla-inspired music video is hoping to urge Latinos to vote. Watch it here!
Youth-oriented group "Mitu" created a Selena Quintanilla-inspired music video to urge Latinos to vote in the upcoming elections. The minute-long video shows an actress donned in the singer's iconic looks. She even dances and sings to the catchy jingle, urging Latinos to vote. The end of the video showed some statistics indicating that almost half of the voters in the United States will be young Latinos.
Watch the catchy music video below:
According to Pop Sugar, the pro-vote lyrics of the music video are all made by Mitu, to which the company says is a cover of Selena's song "Baila Esta Cumbia".
Mitu is a Latino media brand and is aimed to be "voice of young Latinos in the US and worldwide," according to their website. Additionally, the brand is also involved in making social and culturally relevant content for Latino youth through social media.
The music video was posted on the group's various social media pages and it has garnered thousands of likes and shares. It also has some positive reviews from people saying that the initiative is a great way to remind Latinos to vote in the 2016 elections.
"Love that my fellow Mexican Americans are organizing this get out the vote campaign. We need to take our legal right to vote and let our voices be heard!" said a top commenter, Catherine Rebola on the group's Facebook page.
"If this video didn't motivate you to vote, vote to keep Trump from becoming president! I gotta vote, 85% of my homies are Mexican and he's not about to get in office and just treat them any kind of way!" another commenter, Brittany Black, said.
An earlier report, published by the Pew Research Center, states that there are 2.73 million Latino voters in America. Nearly half of the new voters are the youth/millennials. The report suggested that the US-born Latino population has the ability to decide which candidate they want to be put in the office.
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, who was escorted out of Trump's press conference last year, urged the Latino voters to stop Trump from getting into office through the "Basta Trump Campaign." Univision has volunteered its radio and television advertising services in order to register new voters.
"The Republican Party has had an incredible opportunity to reach Latino voters, and they failed. You cannot say, 'Vote for me, but I want to deport your mother or your brother,' Ramos said at that time, New York Daily News reports.
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