Not only does he smoothly repurpose the cadence of the chorus, he smartly flips the script, assigning the criminal role instead to the dancer who he eyes from the other side of the club. Ryo Miyauchi: Daddy Yankee touches on dancehall as much as reggaeton in this revival of Snow’s “Informer,” and his being relatively in the center of that musical Venn diagram removes some of the cultural baggage attached to the original record. So just plunking Snow directly on the damn track with a minimum of funny business and then paring the rest of the production back to its bones scratches the itch with a mercenary efficiency I appreciate. I’m not sure that this is any better than a hypothetical modern reggaeton remix of the original, done by some dude in his bedroom.ĭavid Moore: My taste in interpolations ebbs and flows around my need for verisimilitude, and I happen to be in a flow mood (don’t waste our time, there’s nostalgia to mine?).
If “Con Calma” isn’t “so bad it’s good” - and it’s not - it’s at least “so bad you have to hear it.”Įdward Okulicz: It’s fantastic that we’ve reached the age (or that I’ve reached the age) where my musical childhood is now the preferred era to pillage for hits - ’90s nostalgia forever! The hook to “Informer” was outrageously catchy, but Daddy Yankee’s rendition of it lacks its tension and danger. Thomas Inskeep: Daddy Yankee, the most average guy in reggaeton, has finally hit musical bottom, but in the most delightful way possible: by bringing Snow back from the dead! From its verses, “Con Calma” would be as average as it gets, but no, the song utilizes “Informer” for its chorus! And as if that somehow wasn’t enough, Yankee actually pulls Snow in for the song’s final verse (in English, in case you were wondering). Not featuring Snow tha Product, because there has to be someone other than your editor who assumed that… Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment.Email (song suggestions/writer enquiries).