From Madrid, it’s a guy hoping to be the next David Guetta rather than the next Sak Noel…
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[4.67]
Jonathan Bogart: If this were the official remix, the one with Pitbull and El Cata on it, the score would be higher, probably a [7], maybe even an [8], but Magán is a DJ for a reason: his own vocals, even electronically-assisted, are pretty personality-free, and even Señor Tres Cero Cinco and Ra Ta Ta at their most party-hearty and boastful would be a vast improvement, and their actual verses are instead pretty great. Still, Magán can’t get in the way of that hard-slamming merengue beat and an accordion line as addictive as any in the past few years.
[5]
Patrick St. Michel: Nice music marred by Juan Magán’s decision to soak all of his vocals in Auto-tune, which makes the singing sound awkward against the galloping beat.
[4]
Alfred Soto: T-Pain and Flo Rida could have helped this AutoTunery.
[3]
Brad Shoup: Auto-Tune in a minor key: the more tentative or unpolished the singer, the sadder he or she seems. A kind of transcendent chintz.
[6]
Will Adams: The rampant AutoTune does a disservice to the lively merengue under it, but Juan’s limp delivery is also to blame. On the superior remix, Juan is restricted to the chorus, and Pitbull manages to move as fast as your feet.
[4]
Sabina Tang: The instrumental maintains a rickety cheer, never descending into bludgeoning by blunt synths — or any other ante-upping effect: it sounds like the skeleton of an “extended Latin discomixx” when all the instruments have dropped out for the bridge. Before you ask, the vocals don’t go anywhere either.
[6]