After sweeping the Mexican Kid’s Choice Awards with the most orange blimps, CD9, the country’s reigning princes of pop, broke cultural and language barriers by releasing their newest song “Get Dumb” featuring K-pop girl group Crayon Pop this week.
CD9’s collaboration with Crayon Pop is the first time a Latino artist has appeared on a K-pop song. Moreover, K-pop stars are usually the ones reaching out to American pop stars, whereas in this case, it was CD9 making the call to South Korea.
Most Latino K-pop fans are first introduced to the genre through a friend’s recommendation. In CD9’s case, that friend was band member Alan, who played BIGBANG’s “Bang Bang Bang” for the rest of the guys one day and blew them away. After that listening session – and after getting a primer in K-pop’s massive popularity in Latin America – the band did their research and eventually reached out to Crayon Pop.
As CD9 told Remezcla over email, “‘Get Dumb’ is a sound without borders. We love its rhythm, we want everyone to dance to it with us, and we think it sounds amazing with Crayon Pop’s involvement.”
Whether or not the song opens up a pop cultural exchange between Mexico and South Korea or gives way to more cross-cultural collaborations, CD9 and Crayon Pop started out with a leg up, making music industry history.
Check out the “K-Mex” (Spanish, English, and Korean) version of “Get Dumb” below:
