#offensive or smth for whatever reason feel free to tel mel

[confused-disaster32]

Has anyone else noticed that the beginning of the songs In The Heights (From In the Heights - shocker ik - 2021) and America (From West Side Story 2021) have the same kind of tapping start beat? Like the little tap-tap-tap taptap, tap-tap-tap taptap (Idk if that makes sense when typed out but it does to me.)

It's slightly different instruments and In the Heights is a bit clearer and has shorter time but the beat itself is still the same.

Like is it pure coincidence or is it just a beat that's common in Latin music so both composers wanted to find a way to work in this beat? Could someone please inform me because I would love to know and it's driving me crazy to not have an answer.

(Also just a thing that I myself am not latino so like feel free to correct me on any wrong terminology or anything)