Le reggaeton a gagné le cœur de centaines de millions de personnes dans le monde entier. En témoignent les records de l'artiste portoricain Bad Bunny sur la plateforme de streaming musical Spotify : artiste le plus écouté en 2020, 2021 et 2022, artiste le plus écouté sur une seule et même journée avec 61,1 millions d'écoutes comptabilisées le 19 mai dernier. Mais de nombreuses critiques s’élèvent contre les paroles parfois très violentes à l'égard des femmes. Alors, peut-on être féministe, écouter, aimer, danser et chanter du reggaeton ? Notre journaliste Amanda Perez vous explique pourquoi la réponse est « oui ».
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00:00 So what did you do this weekend?
00:01 With my friends we did the feminist march
00:03 and then we went to a reggaeton party
00:05 we danced all night long
00:07 But isn't being feminist and listening to reggaeton a bit contradictory?
00:10 I think you'll have to ask yourself that question
00:12 Can you be a feminist and like reggaeton?
00:14 You have 4 choices
00:16 Spoiler alert, yes
00:18 It all started in the 90s in Puerto Rico
00:20 Reggaeton draws from dancehall and hip hop
00:22 and Latin American rhythms like the dembow
00:24 It's an urban style that talks about
00:26 the economic and social difficulties of artists
00:28 and especially their sexuality
00:30 Reggaeton has been heavily criticized
00:32 Feminists are hyper sexualized
00:34 and people have seen it as misogyny
00:36 It's not wrong, but misogyny is not only reggaeton
00:56 it's present in all other musical genres
00:58 less criticized because more mainstream
01:00 Let's take the Beatles
01:02 In 1965 they released a song called "Run For Your Life"
01:04 In French it means "sauve qui peut"
01:06 In the song the man says to his wife
01:08 "I'd rather you were dead than with another man"
01:10 And it's not just in the old sexism songs
01:12 There's also in "Love The Way You Lie"
01:14 by our goddess and savior Rihanna
01:16 or even in "Coeur Noir" by Bosh
01:18 among others
01:20 So no, we're not going to let sexism
01:22 pass in reggaeton because everyone does it
01:24 but we can't ignore its liberating aspects
01:26 Who are you talking to?
01:28 The first one is dance
01:30 the "perreo" in Spanish
01:32 "Perro" means dog
01:34 and the dance style associated with reggaeton
01:36 is to dance close together
01:38 doing sensual movements
01:40 It's one of those dances that women can do
01:42 alone without needing a partner
01:44 unlike salsa, merengue or even waltz
01:46 This style allows many women to reappropriate their bodies
01:48 and dance freely and without judgment
01:50 and that really matches the feminism principle
01:52 reggaeton has been around for almost 20 years
01:54 It's the artist Ivy Queen
01:56 who made a big impact in 2003
01:58 She released one of the first reggaeton songs
02:00 that talks about consent
02:02 but also about seduction and sexuality to women
02:04 It's called "Yo Quiero Bailar"
02:06 "I want to dance"
02:08 Ivy Queen is powerful, explicit
02:10 and she doesn't apologize when she sings
02:12 "Yes, I can provoke myself, but that doesn't mean we're going to sleep"
02:14 And with this song, Ivy Queen opens a door
02:16 for all the women in reggaeton
02:18 Like Cardi B in rap or Dua Lipa in pop
02:20 Chilean artist Tomas Adel Real
02:22 evokes the image of a strong, independent
02:24 and comfortable woman in her own sexuality
02:26 She's the one who's the origin of the Neoperreo movement
02:28 a subgenre of reggaeton that wants to be inclusive
02:30 and that detaches from the misogynistic
02:32 and more classical reggaeton
02:34 On her side, the Puerto Rican artist Young Miko
02:36 reappropriates reggaeton songs
02:38 to sing them to women
02:40 When she entered the Hot 100 list
02:42 she justified herself in Billboard
02:44 "I'm not going to write a song for men
02:46 when I love women"
02:48 But in fact, her lyrics and her music videos
02:50 are very far from the masculine gaze that women have
02:52 They're a subject of desire, rather than an object
02:54 And there are a lot of strong women in reggaeton
03:06 with styles for all tastes
03:08 Karol G, Bad Kayal, Becky G, Mala Rodriguez, Peta Ceta
03:10 Really, there's no excuse
03:12 So it's a bit like the Taylor Swift of reggaeton
03:14 Yes, but after all,
03:16 being a feminist is not just a woman's affair
03:18 Do you know Bad Bunny?
03:20 Originally from Puerto Rico,
03:22 he is one of the most listened artists in the world
03:24 And his latest album "Un Bel Anocente"
03:26 became last week the most listened
03:28 in the history of Spotify's streaming platform
03:30 He is also a feminist and LGBT+ ally
03:32 His song "Ya Perrea Sola"
03:34 can be considered as a tribute to consent
03:36 and to women who dance alone
03:38 In 2020, the king of reggaeton
03:40 proposed to a trans woman
03:42 He unveils this t-shirt on Jimmy Fallon's set
03:44 They killed Alexa, not a man with a skirt
03:46 So, we can be feminist
03:48 and like or even write reggaeton
03:50 We can even say that it's a feminist act
03:52 to listen to these strong artists
03:54 who claim a free sexuality
03:56 and the power of women
03:58 Ah yeah, 20/20
04:02 else to perform.