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Natti Natasha is the ideal example that everything depends on the filter from which you look at it.
In her
odes to sexual enjoyment with reggaeton bases
that have made her one of the most successful women in the music industry, there are those who only see a repetition of the macho canons that objectify women, but there are also those who interpret it as a powerful vindication of their right to have fun. «My lyrics are impressive because they don't expect a woman to express herself like that.
For me it
is im
important to talk about the things we feel and tell real stories
, We should not hide that we enjoy sex, "explains this 34-year-old Dominican in a conversation on Zoom from Miami with the unreal blue of the Caribbean Sea in the background, as if it were a digital filter where her words sway gently.
top
of hits with just one album released (
Illuminatti
, 2019) and a good handful of
singles
winners (his collaboration with Ozuna in
Criminal
already exceeds the not inconsiderable number of
2 billion views on YouTube
), at the gates of 8M, launches the first song of her career with an openly feminist message.
«We create the wave, together or alone, we are all one», he sings in the song
The girls
along with three other women: Cazzu, Farina and La Duraca. «Carrying that flag was important to me.
Never before has there been a collaboration in the urban genre only between women, where we leave the ego behind and launch a message of companionship and enjoy the good
vibes
of the music.
It is a song of perreo to empower ourselves, because we can also unite to enjoy together ».
Natti Natasaha confesses that he has not "had the opportunity" to take to the streets during other 8M celebrations, but that his fight is from his songs.
«I feel that with music I do a lot, representing our voices,
speaking without fear and with pride, denouncing abuse and claiming what we like
», He tells this newspaper. Natti Natasha's career has progressed in parallel with the evolution of reggaeton in recent years until it has become a global trend,
dodging the topic of machismo
to give new generations a message of acceptance of hedonism.
«The path that I have traveled has always been uphill, but I have drawn an important line between how the things we said were perceived before and the empathy of now.
That makes me feel proud. ”This idea (breaking the taboo around sex) is shared in Spain by some of the successful singers among the youth, such as Bad Gyal and La Zowi.
«I have been blessed that in this industry those who have supported me have been men, like Don Omar.
Machismo not only comes from them,
it is also the women themselves who criticize me on social media
because they don't feel comfortable with what I say in my songs, "adds the singer from the Dominican Republic.
The girls
it is just a preview of what will be his new album, for which there is still no release date.
At the beginning of this year he already released another single,
Before the sun comes up
, «Un reggaetonsito suave» with Prince Roycem where he bets on the healing properties of music between invitations to passionate love
("Before the sun rises in the morning, let's take the party to bed"
) after a year as hard as 2020. «With all this madness that we are experiencing, I felt that it was the way to reconnect with people: in 2021 we are all already wanting to be more positive.
At the beginning of the pandemic, I wondered if people would really want to dance.
I realized that yes
music serves to escape negative thoughts »
Natti Natasha adds. He compares the global health crisis with "a nightmare from which one never wakes up" and reveals that in recent months he has taken refuge in both music and family.
«I have received the greatest gift of God that you can have in life:
I'm pregnant.
Everything has changed drastically
, I can no longer go to visit my parents whenever I want and I do not know when I will return to give concerts like the ones before, but I want to thank the blessing that I feel sharing my new songs so that everyone can enjoy them ». At the end of January of 2020, shortly before the quarantines began, Natti Natasha recorded the song
Come and go
next to
C. Tangana
, where they both sing, like modern Nostradamus: "Life must be enjoyed until it is over." "It was a hidden message of what was to come," he jokes now without knowing whether to laugh or cry. the Spanish pop fashion star (waiting for Rosalía to reclaim herself this year with her long-awaited new album), has only words of praise: «He is a unique artist and he will be even bigger, there are many more people who need to know him.
Music is about surprising, and C. Tangana succeeds
by merging rhythms that you do not expect from him », points out Natti Natasha. Regarding the current explosion of Latin sounds and the global success of the songs in Spanish that is being produced during the last years of which C. Tangana, Rosalía and even she herself has benefited (and been promoters), she trusts that reggaeton will continue to set the pace of the industry in recent years through its fusion with other rhythms such as cumbia, bachata and even ballads. «There will be people who don't like it and prejudices will follow, but
I will always be proud of reggaeton
.
Since I was little I have felt very connected and I am where I am thanks to him », she says with emotion, remembering that young woman who left her country at the age of 18 and came to New York to try to become someone in music.
"I'm still Natalia Alexandra Gutiérrez Batista, that girl who was looking for a dream and despite the fact that everything was against her, she continues to work on it today."
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