"Tango is terrible"

'Tango Macho'

After the Rosarinos had played their set of live music we chatted. She had got him playing tango music. She danced, he didn't. I asked them if they found differences in milongas in different places but they mentioned nothing in particular.

I mentioned the story from Buenos Aires that demonstrated the near zero tolerance for same sex dancing there is (or was, in 2016) in the traditional milongas there.

She was amazed that such things still happened.

I was amazed she didn't know that.

Tango is terrible, he said, with a sorrowful shake of the head. I wasn't sure if there was irony there.

What do you mean?

The lyrics, they are awful. He meant sexist.

Ultimately, sexism, machismo is about control.

And yet you travel the world, playing tango music!

Ah, but not the lyrics. There are no lyrics when we play, he grinned.