Kornhaber: Your book is partly about the racial dynamics in reggaeton. But his two songs that are popular now, especially вЂњShaky Shaky,вЂќ sound a lot more like the mid-2000s reggaeton with a very common dancehall loop in it. HeвЂ™s become more dance-pop in a lot of ways. If you listen to Daddy YankeeвЂ™s catalog from when he was an underground artist to now, thereвЂ™s definitely a shift in his sound. Since вЂњGasolina,вЂќ heвЂ™s had many albums and several hits, including some success this year with two other songs, вЂњShaky ShakyвЂќ and вЂњHula Hoop.вЂќ Daddy Yankee was part of one of those groups and was quite popular. Rivera-Rideau: One of the things thatвЂ™s important about Daddy Yankee is that he had a successful career before вЂњGasolina.вЂќ Reggaeton in Puerto Rico in the вЂ™90s circulated informally for a while and was called вЂњunderground.вЂќ There were several crews somewhat analogous with hip-hop, with different DJs that would have artists rapping on them.

Kornhaber: For a lot of Americans, the last the time theyвЂ™ve heard of Daddy Yankee was in 2004 with вЂњGasolina.вЂќ What has he been doing since then? вЂњThis genre has moved from being maligned and censored to being the No. It is true that reggaeton has a reputation of having misogynistic and explicitly sexual lyrics, and вЂњDespacitoвЂќ doesnвЂ™t have have such explicit lyrics-but itвЂ™s obviously a very sexual song. IвЂ™m not sure that I totally buy such stark divisions between reggaeton before and pop-fusion now. Now that reggaeton has broken into the mainstream of Latin music, there has been a lot of discussion saying that it has shifted its orientation lyrically: that before it was hyper-sexualized and connected to the street and politics but now itвЂ™s not. And itвЂ™s pretty different in terms of its melody. ThereвЂ™s that guitar riff in the song that you hear in a lot of Latin pop. Most reggaeton is rapped and not sung Luis Fonsi is singing not rapping. вЂњDespacitoвЂќ definitely has that, but there are some differences. The main thing that people think about when they think about reggaeton is the beat-the boom-ch-boom-chick beat.

Rivera-Rideau: In the media, the songвЂ™s been presented as вЂњreggaeton-pop fusionвЂќ or вЂњurban-pop fusion,вЂќ which are phrases that have been attached to Ricky Martin or Enrique Iglesias or other pop singers. Kornhaber: Am I right to be calling it reggaeton? How does it showcase the genre or diverge from it? Emily in Paris Is the Last Guilty Pleasure Spencer Kornhaber

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