The Singles Jukebox

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Juana Giaimo: While reggaeton artists are changing their music to fit in the trend  — see Yandel’s “Encantadora” — Daddy Yankee decided not only to be loyal to his beginnigs, but to take them to an extreme. His rapping lacks a melody or any kind of sensibility as he boasts about his sexual appeal. He hasn’t been this repetitive since “Gasolina,” while the warmth of reggaeton is lost in a schematic beat with no flow at all. As a result, this might one of Daddy Yankee’s most boring singles.
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Alfred Soto: Repetition wears down the hook’s meager charms, and learning that the line wasn’t “dame una gordita” forced me to dump fifty words about the Puerto Rican act’s body positivity.
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Cassy Gress: The pokey guitar line is uninspiring, and aspects of Daddy Yankee’s flow remind me of a more throaty G-Dragon, of all things. I won’t lie, though, I’d shaky shaky to this.
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Will Adams: A whisper and subsequent re-chop of a Sly & Robbie sample (last heard on “Freaks”) is the only salvageable element in this dull reggaetón exercise in which Daddy Yankee chants like a kindergarten bully mocking the weird kid’s name: JAKEY JAKEY JAKEY JAKEY JAKEY.
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Josh Langhoff: Daddy Yankee’s “One take!” braggadocio makes him more Cee-Lo than Glenn Gould, so thank goodness DJ Urba and Rome marshaled a small army of Yankees to squawk and pop off around him. Working those “rrrrr”s and changing his delivery from one chorus to the next, Yankee twitches like a seismograph needle giddy over the destructive potential of booty.
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Patrick St. Michel: Daddy Yankee couldn’t find one guest vocalist to buff this one out? 
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