Music, cinema, current affairs, sport, fashion: all Rolling Stone digital covers.Sign up for the Rolling Stone newsletter and enter the world of music, culture and entertainment.If you think reggaeton is a trivial genre, you are very wrong.We have chosen ten songs that will make you change your mind and that will give you the keys to access a truly wide and intriguing musical world.The Zowi in concert in MadridReggaeton is certainly the most loved and hated genre in Italy.Despite gigantic numbers (Bad Bunny, for example, was the most listened to Spotify artist in the world of 2020, capable of setting, this year, the record of 184 million plays in a single day on the Swedish platform) and a capacity of diffusion that does not seem to know geographical boundaries, there are still many prejudices on gender, especially in Italy.Reggaeton, like almost all Latin music, here has suffered a certain intellectual discrimination even just for the fact that it is not a white genre belonging to our culture: at best it has been treated as an exotic product, at worst, simply as something not to be validated.Moreover, during its explosion on our peninsula, it was presented and told so superficially by the media and insiders that it seemed nothing more than a fashion to come up with during the summer season.If I had had a euro for every time I heard phrases like "reggaeton is all the same" maybe now I would not be very worried about the high cost of living, but I would certainly continue to be perplexed about how we are missing the opportunity to enjoy one of the most important musical waves and aesthetics of the last twenty years.Of course, the reggaeton that Italian radios continue to pass is an often vulgar, industrial, de-territorialized version of the genre (the Latin hits of Fred Palma have nothing to do with the songs I'm about to offer you, to say), far away from the facets of a universe that is much larger than we can imagine.Furthermore, reggaeton is a genre indissolubly linked to experience, that is to the body, to dance, to perreo (a very erotic dance linked to reggaeton, a sort of twerking to dance alone or in pairs, as well as a slang expression used for say "party").Stripped of this physical contact, in fact, the genre becomes trunk, like techno when extruded from the world of clubbing.I therefore thought of collecting ten reggaeton songs (beautiful!) That could a) make you change your mind if you have prejudices, b) make you discover intriguing artists and artists tend to be out of our list and c) make you dance, sweat, perrear.To those who claim that the reggaeton discography is a single song repeated over and over again, the advice is to pick up KICK ii by the seminal Venezuelan artist Arca, a record that is a lesson on how dembow rhythms (the basic rhythm on which structure reggaeton) can become fertile ground for sound and vocal experiments.Prada, but also Rakata, are in fact two majestic examples of how to rework the genre in a post-modern key.Are you still convinced that there can be no room for creativity?"Tití Me Preguntó" Bad Bunny (2022)Bad Bunny is the man of reggaeton records, as well as one of the mainstream figures who, with more force, tried to introduce social, queer and feminism themes into the genre.Choosing a song in his discography is difficult and Un Verano Sin Ti, his latest album, in addition to being the most successful record of 2022 so far, is a container of hits (23 to be precise) from which it is difficult to extract a favorite.Tití Me Preguntó is definitely the song that immediately transports you to the dance floor, split halfway between reggaeton and latin trap and which confirms Bad Bunny as the perfect artist to start from to discover the genre.Internationally is a reggaeton that still sounds modern and fresh today, despite the song being released in 2018 as part of the Worldwide Angel album, a record that boasted such genius producers as El Guincho (Rosalía's solidarity), Jam City and Florentino.It is Jam City, a cult British producer (get his Classical Curves), who builds a hyper-contaminated beat for Bad Gyal, a sort of talented Spanish Electro Lamborghina.The result?A song that brings reggaeton into the accelerated world of avant pop.“Dime Que Tu Quieres” Florentino feat.Albany (2019)On the one hand Florentino, an Anglo-Colombian producer, self-defined as “the most romantic of romantics”, on the other Albany, a Spanish artist who flirts with hyperpop, sad-reggaeton, latin trap.The song, extracted from Florentino's Ilimitado, lP of 2019 that mixes baile funk, Latin rhythms and avant pop, boasts an additional production of Jam City, and is a great example of what can be built on the more classic riddim dembow.Here past, future and present are mixed here for a piece that transcends a temporal collocation.“Nuestro Planeta” Kali Uchis feat.Reykon (2018)This time we are in the places of slow reggaeton, perhaps the most slippery territory for the genre.Italian radios, in fact, often tend to fill up with certain useless sugary-from-caries tunes and this is probably one of the reasons why many people hate - in no uncertain terms - reggaeton.Here, forget all this when you approach Nuestro Planeta: Kali Uchis builds an educated caress that mixes the Latin world with American R&B and soul."6 De La Mañana" Kelman Duran (2017)Duran is a Dominican producer famous for deconstructing reggaeton.6 De La Mañana is a song built on the disassembled and reconstructed sampling of a vocal sample of El Party Me Llama by Daddy Yankee and Nicky Jam.The original track, emptied of its tamarra soul inspired by the 90s, thus returns to the origin of reggaeton, as if traveling back to the origins of the genre, to the primordial sound."Empezar de Cero" La Zowi x Yung Beef (2019)Zowi is a very intriguing Spanish artist who moves between the mainstream and the most intriguing fringes of experimentation, playing radio and sophisticated at the same time.Yung Beef, on the other hand, is a Spanish trapper with a dark imagination.Empezar de Cero, their 2019 collaboration, is slow and minimal reggaeton with a fantastic production signed by Mark Luva and Marvin Cruz, embellished with a series of sought-after underground references.Bonus prize for the artwork of the single, which even better tells the incredible and fascinating dualism of La Zowi.Tu Sicaria is one of the first songs of the artist Ms Nina and in a certain way recalls the very first MIA, if we replace the Argentine background to the Sri Lankan background.It will not have been a coincidence that after that success Ms Nina was signed by Mad Decent, the label of Diplo, historic producer and boyfriend of MIA.Tu Sicaria is built on the riddim of Dem Bow by Andy Boy and Dj Blass, Puerto Rican producer pivotal figure of reggaeton (he worked with Daddy Yankee, Nicky Jam, Plan B) and works for his ability to get straight to the point with very few elements , with all those 'Ehy Papi' by Ms Nina that make the dancefloor hotter than ever."Yo x Ti, Tu x Mi" Rosalía & Ozuna (2019)After relaunching flamenco with El Mar Querer, Rosalía began to explore other places of Latin culture;for her to get to reggaeton, it was only a matter of time.Yo x Ti, Tu x It shows me, first of all, how well she can play a well produced reggaeton song.El Guincho and Rosalía produce a beat that is candy, and in a few notes of a round maritime synth, success is already guaranteed.Backing up the singer in the song is Ozuna, one of the best known artists of the genre (Taki Taki tells you something?)"Perra del Futuro" Tomasa del Real (2018)The neoperreo is a subgenre of reggaeton which takes its name from the 'perreo', the very sexual dance that is danced in Latin clubs.The neoperreo differs from reggaeton for the introduction of experimental sound elements and for a more explicit club attitude.Furthermore, the neoperreo parties aim at total inclusiveness and acceptance of diversity, sabotaging the excess masculinity present in the dancefloors of reggaeton clubs (as can be seen in the same video by Perra del Futuro).Tomasa del Real, Chilean, is not only the most intriguing figure of the genre, but she is also the one who coined the term;her Perra del Futuro is simply a declaration, a manifesto, a hit.You enter the world of music, culture and entertainment© 2022 Web Magazine Makers SrlWe promise you a curious and attentive look at the world of music and entertainment, forays into politics and current affairs, certainly no spam.