my observation over the years has been that a) it ALWAYS has a certain constutiuecy, and b) it NEVER crosses over (or "goes clear" as my old ninjatune pal matt used to say; at some point there's a weird resistance

what's strange is that ts aplies to ANY form of music you could reasonably call latin (inc.the stuff that gets danced to in "come dancing" back in the day and celebrity TV dance-competitions now

"smoothness" maybe has a similar -- though distinct -- uk arc of success/resistance? (relating to a white idea of what black music should be?) (as if the words "adult"and "pop" were intrinsically opposed?)