# Who is the woman in the "Despacito" video? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 12, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-woman-in-the-despacito-video/793464 "2017-08-12T21:06:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-woman-in-the-despacito-video/793464/21 "2017-08-28T18:56:24Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > If you turned on the radio at any point during the past four or five months there was about a 90% chance this song was on. I listen to 2 radio stations - alternative rock and throwback hip-hop. Never heard it but I know about it. I even let my son control the music in the car and his Pandora or whatever it is plays a lot of current pop and dance music - like I’ve heard that song with Justin Bieber sounding like a girl over Skrillex and weird/lame stuff like the R&B remake of a Fastball song and the songs sampling The Romantics and Modest Mouse and that 90s dancehall love song. But somehow I have only read about this one. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-woman-in-the-despacito-video/793464/22 "2017-08-29T02:20:19Z")
> [@bump](#): > > Me too. I heard about the song, and finally heard it last week. I actually listen to the top 40 stations about 20% of the time. I think it just may not be high in the rotation during the times I listen (to and from work), or it is, and I’m just lucky enough to avoid it. > [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](#): > > I listen to 2 radio stations - alternative rock and throwback hip-hop. Never heard it but I know about it. I even let my son control the music in the car and his Pandora or whatever it is plays a lot of current pop and dance music - like I’ve heard that song with Justin Bieber sounding like a girl over Skrillex and weird/lame stuff like the R&B remake of a Fastball song and the songs sampling The Romantics and Modest Mouse and that 90s dancehall love song. But somehow I have only read about this one. Many of us have probably read about how “fragmented” the music world is these days (same goes for TV). This phenomenon is starting to make me think that has even become true within what is alleged to be the very height of pop/Top 40. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-woman-in-the-despacito-video/793464/23 "2018-02-19T03:00:48Z")
Just wanted to bump this because I think five couples in the Olympic ice dancing are using this song in their routine. Apparently, it is still quite the thing. And, before this thread, and in the intervening months until just now, I still have never heard this song. Though my wife might want to buy it. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-woman-in-the-despacito-video/793464/24 "2018-02-19T03:13:09Z")
heard this song just yesterday for the first time on the radio, the same version as the video linked above (the Spanish version, cause sometimes I like to listen to the various Spanish music stations around here). I don’t recall hearing it played while I was watching the Olympics, but then again I didn’t watch every night and wasn’t paying to much attention to the music either. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-woman-in-the-despacito-video/793464/25 "2018-02-19T03:58:35Z")
[The absolute worst version.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=had_EfAW7rI) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-woman-in-the-despacito-video/793464/26 "2018-02-20T06:01:17Z")
I like Latin music and saw Daddy Yankee in concert once. But while the song is okay and fairly catchy it still surprises me that it is so popular. I can name dozens of Latin songs I prefer. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-woman-in-the-despacito-video/793464/27 "2018-02-20T06:55:26Z")
After expressing my surprise that this had been such a huge hit and confessing my own unfamiliarity with it until reading about it, I discovered another song in a similar fashion, which several publications named the “song of the year” (2017). That one, Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow”, is actually way worse and definitely makes me side-eye the musical taste of the masses. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-woman-in-the-despacito-video/793464.md?page=1)