Karol G refers to all her teenage dreams in ‘Contigo’: from Rihanna to ‘Three Meters Above Heaven’

Karol G just turned 33 years old. And how have you celebrated it? As a teenager growing up in the mid 2000’s. Literally! And Bichota has taken advantage of the launch of her new song with Tiestö, With youto recreate some of the visual scenes that marked his teenage period. And it wasn’t subtle at all! She wanted it to be noted that each shot is a tribute to those years when she was learning for the first time what love is. In fact, the song itself samples one of Leona Lewis’s biggest hits: Bleeding love.

One more time, Karol G has counted on Pedro Artola for direction: a young Spanish filmmaker who has recorded almost all of his music videos from the Tomorrow will be beautiful era. And it is clear that the director and the musical star understand each other perfectly. Every shot in which Karol appears leaves you breathless.

But the thing has not stopped there. Karol G has had a top-notch co-star: Young Miko. The Puerto Rican has become Carolina Giraldo’s romantic interest in this video. A way to reinterpret some of the best-known scenes from other music videos and movies but with two girls. A way for people from the LGTBI collective, who at that time did not have many references, to also revive these visual works as they would have liked.

Karol G and her obsession with We Found Love by Rihanna

Although musically Contigo is a tribute to Leona Lewis, visually, Karol has recreated some of the most legendary moments of Rihanna’s We Found Love. When the song came out, Karol was 19 years old and dreamed of becoming a world star. Who was going to tell you that you would end up meeting Riri at the 2022 Super Bowl? Not only that, but the one from Barbados invited her to go to her own box.

In this way, Karol G wanted to recreate some of the most legendary scenes from the famous video clip that Rihanna filmed in 2011. There are shots that are copied. Also moments.

The first one that catches our attention is Karol G and Young Miko tattooing together in a house. Something Rihanna already did with model Dudley O’Shaughnessy in the video.

The Colombian and the Puerto Rican also recreate the shower moment. And the plans couldn’t be more similar.

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Of course, Karol G, as if she were Rihanna herself, also sings on a wall full of projections. Come on, everything sounds familiar to us.

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Karol G and her moment Three meters above the sky

But Karol G not only pays tribute to Rihanna, far from it! The star has also rescued one of the love movies that she saw in her teenage years. And which one was it? Well, nothing more and nothing less than Three meters above the sky: the love story that Federico Moccia wrote and that became a true global success thanks to Mario Casas and María Valverde.

In fact, The singer was a big fan of Mario Casas. Without going any further, on his album Unstoppablewrote a song called Ganas de tu for the second part of Three meters above the sky. In an interview she starred in in 2017, talking about this song, she said the following about the Spanish actor: “My song ‘Ganas de ti’ is very special for me, because it describes a situation that many women go through, we fall platonically in love with someone we have never met, a boy we see from afar, or an artist, but you really want him. From the first movie I saw I fell in love; Then, I began to search more and watch other films, I watched interviews and, as a person, I was captivated.”

Well, now Karol G has become Baby, the protagonist of Three meters above the sky, at the end of With You. Karol appears as María Valverde in the middle of the dance floor to the rhythm of her song. Meanwhile, Young Miko, as if he were Mario Casas (Hache), looks at her from above the track. A moment that we all remember. They even touch each other the same way as in the movie.

With With you, Karol G has had a great time recreating some of the scenes that marked her adolescence. Without a doubt, we are delighted to recreate them with her.