I noticed the Mexican telenovela "La Reina del Sur" (Queen of the South in Spanish) is on Netflix in the US, so I randomly started watching the first episode for fun... don't judge me, Kate del Castillo is a babe and she's the actress who went with Sean Penn to meet with El Chapo before he was recaptured.
About 15 minutes and 10 seconds into the first episode of La Reina del Sur I heard a song in the background while the couple is talking that sounded vaguely familiar. I kept re-playing the scene trying to figure out the song. Was it a famous Mexican mariachi song perhaps? Nope! It soon dawned on me that the song was "Negro y Azul" (The Ballad of Heisenberg) by the group Los Cuates de Sinaloa. The song appears in Breaking Bad season 2, episode 7 and is about Walt's drug dealing catching the eye of the cartel south of the border. The episode aired on April 19th, 2009 and is also called "Negro y Azul".
Apparently the theme song to La Reina del Sur was also sung by the same group, Los Cuates de Sinaloa. The show La Reina del Sur was originally released on February 28, 2011, showing that La Reina aired after the Breaking Bad episode, thus was paying homage to Heisenberg (El Rey del Norte, if you will) and the tv series from the US.
Submitted November 29, 2017 at 12:24PM by ShaolinMaster http://ift.tt/2AIN1h7
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