The queen of this scene is Tomasa del Real: “I’m la freaky of the reggaetoneros,” she says with a grin. Yet while these industry mainstays have found success in toning down the explicit lyrics of yore, in favor of a more suavecito, romantic dembow, an entire underground scene of sexually uninhibited, female-led reggaeton is moving the genre forward in unprecedented ways by reclaiming the perreo - a sexually suggestive dance that once shocked the sensibilities of Puerto Rican elites in the Nineties. A rhythm that first developed in the Afrodiasporic communities of Panama and Puerto Rico, the genre has rapidly taken over the world, as artists like J Balvin, Daddy Yankee and Ozuna crank out summer hit after summer hit. As Latin pop is breaking into the American mainstream, all eyes are on reggaeton.
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