The Spanish congregation can go overboard, and our previous pastor, now retired, was very social. We’d do five verses and a guitar-and-viola interlude! Our new pastor isn’t quite as free-and-easy, but he’s loosened up since coming to the parish.
As I said above, I’m of two minds. Although I have personal preferences about liturgy, I’m so happy to be at Mass - and especially to see our growing Spanish congregation - that details don’t really matter to me. Mass in Vietnamese with gongs? Just fine!
Actually, I wouldn’t mind Spanish with guitars or Vietnamese with gongs, but when all the music at an English mass sounds like a game show, I have a problem.
This is how it was a couple weeks ago in Mid-MI
(cue jazzy music)
Lamb of God (da dum dum dum) You who takes away our sins (da da da da) forgive uuuussssss (ding) (repeat 3X)
Seriously. They don’t even try to use the GIRM.
And I said to a Protestant friend we were camping with, I love Praise music. That is when I can sing along. When you have one guy in the front having his own solo and he “feels it”, I’m shaking my head.