“I spit in your mouth, I pull your hair; I give you with the bug and with the fool / In the private jet, a powder in the sky; Today I want a whore, a model”. They are verses by the Puerto Rican Bad Bunny in the song ‘La Jumpa’, which is on its way to 350 million views on Spotify. This musical success is yet another example of the objectification of women in a reggaeton theme, a genre that in recent years has become a global phenomenon.
In an increasingly feminist society, is it contradictory to defend women’s rights and at the same time sing and dance reggaeton songs with macho content? It is a complex question with no clear answer, especially at a time when the feminist movement is in full internal debate.
On the other hand, reggaeton is associated with a type of dance, “twerking”, which is characterized by its explicitness, which in turn raises more questions: does a woman’s body become a simple sexual product? If a dancer freely lends herself to appearing in a scantily clad video clip, what’s the problem?
In the La Vanguardia video report that you can see on these lines, we raise these questions with four women from different professions related to music. Beyond the contradiction that some songs imply for them, they consider that the focus must be changed: stop questioning what women do and begin to analyze the man’s gaze on them.
