The video for J Balvin and Tokischa’s “Perra” has been condemned as racist and misogynistic by viewers and recently disappeared from YouTube. Today, both artists addressed the controversy, the latter in an exclusive interview with Rolling Stone
of a Dutch man walking a woman on a chain in Colombia.) The letter only names Balvin as the artist behind the song and charges the lyrics with containing “direct and openly sexist, racist,, and misogynistic expressions that violate the rights of women, comparing them to an animal that must be dominated and mistreated.”
In his Instagram video, Balvin said he’s “always been about tolerance, love, and integration, just as I’ve always liked to support new talent—in this case Tokischa, a woman who supports her people, her community and empowers women.” He also apologized directly to his mother.that the song was one of several she sent Balvin and that he chose it specifically forbefore traveling to the Dominican Republic to shoot the video.
Paulus says that the decision to have the actors act as dogs had to do with the “realities of the barrio” and the way its people are seen in society. “Everything that was represented is from the barrio: the Doña [an older woman], the Don [an older man], the men, and the women; in that video they were dogs because they belonged to that context,” he says.
In response to criticism around the video, he says, “I’m an underground director and I feel like the video was taken out of context. I understand that there will never be a unanimous opinion about what constitutes art, but, for me, art not only communicates beauty and positivity—it also communicates the shortcomings of society, taboo subjects, and other ways of seeing reality that do not always align with the pop vision that dominates the current market.
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