With the raw energy of corridos and the dance-floor fervor of Jersey club, Fuerza Regida’s latest creation, Pero No Te Enamores , forges a bold, unprecedented fusion. At the helm, frontman Jesús Ortiz Paz, a.k.
a. JOP, embraced the risk of blending these distinct styles. “When I first heard [Jersey club] about one to two years ago, I loved it.
I was like, ‘Man, I wanna do something with it.’ I just didn’t know how. But I knew that when I did, they were gonna talk sh–t,” he tells Billboard Español .
“So when it got to the point to make a new album, I was like, ‘I wanna do Jerseys and dance music, I want to move something different but still keep the original Fuerza Regida [essence], with the guitars.” The gamble paid off. This week, the album, which was released on July 25, made an immediate impact on the Billboard charts , debuting at No.
2 on the Top Latin Albums and No. 23 on the Billboard 200 . The focus track, “Nel,” marked by its emotional-yet-disillusioned tone, entered the coveted Billboard Hot 100 at 91.
Additionally, eight cuts from the album appear on Hot Latin Songs . For this new sound, Fuerza Regida enlisted music producers Gordo — known for his work on Drake’s Baltimore club hit “Sticky” — and Synthetic, the architect behind Lil Uzi Vert’s Jersey club smash “Just Wanna Rock.” “Gordo has the dance s–t on lock, he’s the man; and Synthetic, he’s killing it with the Jersey club,” adds JOP.
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