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Originally posted by alestevens
I love Enrique and i love Bailando, but the nerve at "I´ve written" when the song is a cover
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Iglesias' No. 1 is the second recorded version of the song. Collaborators Bueno and Gente de Zona did their own version of the song in 2013. According to Bueno, Iglesias had not shown immediate interest in recording it after he and Bueno came up with the basics of "Bailando" during a writing session. “The song exploded in Cuba,” Javier Otero, Gente de Zona’s manager told Billboard. Director Alejandro Perez filmed a video for the song, featuring a flamenco troupe dancing in the streets of Havana. The video quickly became popular on Youtube, where Iglesias saw it after a friend -- not knowing it was the superstar's song -- told him it was a great video that he should watch.
"Suddenly I got a call from Enrique Iglesias," Otero recalls. The song was revised and recorded by Iglesias with Bueno and Gente de Zona
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http://www.billboard.com/biz/article...-with-bailando
Anyway the song deserves the record, it's the song of Summer 2014 (maybe not in the US, but in the rest of the world it was) and it's still slaying the charts.
It's definitely one of the most successful Latin songs of all the time.
And btw Bailando >>>>>>>> La Tortura IMO