At the end of 2016 Maluma He was facing his first major controversy after the publication of the single ‘Four Babies’and although thousands of people showed their discontent with the lyrics of the song, many of them also sang it at a party as if there were no tomorrow.
Today there are even more people who ask for the return of the old Maluma, the one that hooked us so much in the ‘Pretty Boy, Dirty Boy’ era thanks to the catchy choruses of ‘Borro Casette’, ‘El Perdedor’ or ‘Sin Contrato’, among many others. And we are not going to say that we do not like DON JUAN who has set the pace for our summer with ‘COCO LOCO’but it is inevitable to get nostalgic and return from time to time to those songs that were a reference in Latin music before its great global boom.
And it is no wonder, because on top of that it is the artist himself who gives rise to this. He has been leaving small clues on his social networks and even in his most recent collaborations for several months that make us think that the end of the DON JUAN era will give way to a new stage that sounds similar to Maluma of 2016.
Maluma’s clues about the return of ‘Pretty Boy, Dirty Boy’
Since Maluma finished his last tour, ‘Don Juan World Tour’, the artist seemed very eager to give way to what he was already cooking. As soon as those concerts finished, he started with the tracks in the captions of his Instagram profile. Among them we can read many references to the album he published in 2015: “X always Dirty Boy”, “Dirty Boy is back” either “No matter what happens… I will always be the bby of the bbys”are some of the latest phrases that the artist has written on his social network.
All of them raised expectations, and even more so when they arrived at the same time as some Maluma songs that sound very similar to the reggaeton that the Colombian did eight years ago. These are ‘Maybach (Remix)’ or ‘Gafas Negras’, along with J Balvin, one of the artists who accompanied Maluma on several of his greatest hits in this era that we remember today.
But the definitive trigger for everyone to talk about this return to his old sound has been his verse in the remix of ‘Lollipop’. All his fans talk about this part of the song It is not sung by Don Juan, but by Pretty Boy, Dirty Boy. And this is something that thousands of followers who lived through that time when reggaeton was still trying to find a place in the global music scene have already celebrated. Now that Maluma has that place, we can only hope that those who didn’t listen to him back then also want to welcome this new era with open arms.
