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.
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.
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.
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.
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.