"Yo Perreo Sola" (English: "I Twerk Alone")[2] is a song by Puerto Rican rapperBad Bunny from his second studio albumYHLQMDLG (2020), featuring uncredited vocals by Nesi. The song's music video features Bad Bunny performing indrag.[3] It won aLatin Grammy Award for Best Reggaeton Performance.[4] A remix featuring Nesi andIvy Queen was released on October 14, 2020, following their performance of the song at the2020Billboard Music Awards.[5]
Musically, "Yo Perreo Sola" comprises808 drums and "stripped-down"reggaeton beats.[1] It uncredited features vocals from artist Nesi (Genesis Rios). According toRolling Stone, the song "is dedicated to those who desire to dance alone, and safely, at the club." Bad Bunny told the magazine in an interview:
I wrote it from the perspective of a woman. I wanted a woman's voice to sing it—'yo perreo sola'—because it doesn’t mean the same thing when a man sings it. But I do feel like that woman sometimes.[6]
Writing forJezebel, Shannon Malero called the original "song of the summer", adding that the remix "elevates this song from good to pendeja power anthem of the winter."[7] Liz Calvario forEntertainment Weekly, labeled the performance at theBillboard Music Awards as "epic" and "slamming".[8] ForE!, Billy Nilles called the remix "excellent", adding that the "extra feminine energy on the track made it more powerful".[9]Billboard magazine named Ivy Queen joining the remix as one of five uplifting moments in Latin music for the week of October 17, 2020.[10]Billboard also named it Latin remix of the week.[11] Before the remixed version, album reviews byPitchfork andNPR criticized that Nesi was not credited as a performer on the track listing, despite the song's message of empowerment.[12][13]
Time named "Yo Perreo Sola" remix the third best song of the year.[14]Complex ranked the original version the seventh-best of the year, calling it "one of 2020's defining musical moments,"[15] andBillboard ranked it 18th.[16]Pitchfork included it among the 100 best songs of the year[17] and on "the 22 best songs by Latinx artists in 2020."[18] In 2022,Rolling Stone listed the remix at number 14 on its list of the 100 Greatest Reggaeton Songs of All Time.[19]
Directed by Bad Bunny and Stillz, the music video for "Yo Perreo Sola" premiered on March 27, 2020. Bad Bunny opens the clip in a redvinyl miniskirt andthigh-high boots, as he pushes away a group of men who approaches him.[6] He also appearsperreando in a green room, with the message "Ni una menos" displayed in the background. The video closes with "Si no quiere bailar contigo, respeta, ella perrea sola" ("If she doesn’t want to dance with you, respect her, shetwerks alone.")[20]
Stillz stated inBillboard that the performer "wanted to symbolize that men also care about women’s rights and that violence against women also affects us as men... he wanted to impact and take a message to the reggaeton community that usually is not as open to speak about the LGBTQ community." Stillz and stylist Chloe Delgadillo further explained the looks displayed in the video, with the red outfit representing a sexy "badass" girl in latex suit, the second look, a perfect "Instagram girl" who "is ready to dance alone at the club", and the third, a "classy girl", dressed in a black outfit with a shiny hat.[21]
Writing forBillboard, Suzette Fernandez opined, "it's as visually eye-opening as it is conscientious, talking about respect for women and highlighting the LGBT community, a departure for Latin urban music."[21] InRolling Stone, Suzy Exposito described the video as "jaw dropping", and considered the message in the closing scene "[a] damning-but-necessary public service announcement onsexual harassment."[6] As of September 2021, the music video has received more than 500 million views on YouTube.
Vulture andBillboard ranked it as the best and fifth-best music video of 2020, respectively.[22][23]
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