Down The Rabbit Hole: Juan Gabriel Hasta Que Te Conoci Reaction Videos

Of all the genre of online videos that has popped up on Youtube throughout the years the one that always seems to get me is reaction videos. I know, they’re bad, I know they’re the lowest form of “entertainment”. I know most of them are dumb and false hyperbolic performances for the camera. Still there’s a reason why they’re popular, and I think it’s because sometimes you just want someone else to share some of the enthusiasm you have for whatever it is people are reacting to. I’m sure this has happened to you before, you find a really good (to you) song that you share with someone and the other person just sits there. The seconds feel like hours as you see their expression turn to boredom, the joy in you turns to shame and then to hate. Maybe not that bad but it SUCKS. So that’s the hole Reaction videos fill. You know something is good and you want others to experience it too and also confirm how right you are.

For me, when I’m bored, I just search up “Hasta Que te Conoci Reaction” and I can easily sink hours into it. This is one of the great performances ever. It features Juan Gabriel at his peak, at Bellas Artes, the crowning moment of his career. The song itself just has such a great trajectory it starts with just guitar strumming, a mariachi group that also features an accordion (the accordion player with a cowboy hat cus it’s not a traditional mariachi instrument, and more of a norteño instrument is just perfect too) and Juan Ga just belting out the most emotional beginning to a song. Total Silence. “Hasta que……………..te conoci” full mariachi kicks in. JuanGa shimmies, sings more. The Song builds to a point where JuanGa goes a cappella again, the mic not even in view, then the entire orchestra kicks in and you’re off to the outer edges of the solar system.

Seriously, watch it. Maybe record a reaction video to it yourself. For this particular song and really any JuanGa song the Reaction video effect is so much better when it’s people who aren’t Mexican or aren’t familiar with Juan Gabriel or aren’t from the border. It just has that little extra bit of pride.

But for those of us that have already seen this hundreds if not thousands of time. Here’s some of my favorites:

This is just a small sampling of the thousands of videos out there.

Now if you don’t wanna cry alone go watch some “Amor Eterno” Reaction videos.