‘Fast & Furious X’ recovers one of the most mythical songs in the history of reggaeton

Fast & Furious is a phenomenon and, as such, it has slipped into different loopholes of popular culture in which no one expected it to end up positioning itself when ‘Full throttle’ (Rob Cohen, 2001) was released, the simple film about thieves big-hearted with gasoline in his veins that started it all. Now, ‘Fast & Furious X’ recovers one of the most mythical songs in the history of reggaeton (and it is the least that could be expected of her).

“It’s not just a movie, it’s a madman’s dream, a celebration of the self-conscious blockbuster that takes itself ridiculously seriously, despite everything. while allowing all the licenses that would be censored in a meeting of directors with some shame”, we pointed out in our review of ‘Fast & Furious X’ while we wanted to talk about the great song of Daddy Yankee who, like all the characters of the saga that we have given up for dead, was partying.

Reggaeton & Furious, a love story

Although In Spain everything really began with the arrival of the ‘Pimp Daddy‘ by the Panamanian Lorna in 2003reggaeton (reggaeton for the RAE) became essential thanks to ‘Gasolina’, the great song by Daddy Yankee and Eddie Dee from 2004.

It didn’t take long for him to infiltrate the saga of Las Tunas heroes. In the soundtrack of ‘Full throttle 2 (John Singleton, 2003) there was no lack of ‘Hey‘ by Pitbull, in ‘Full throttle: Tokyo Race’ (Justin Lin, 2006) you could hear two songs by Don Omar, including ‘bandits‘ together with Tego Calderón, and they all reappeared on different tracks from ‘Fast & Furious: Even faster’ (Justin Lin, 2009).

However, It was the inclusion of Don Omar and Lucenzo’s ‘Danza Kuduro’ in the subversive ‘Fast & Furious 5’ (Justin Lin, 2011) that united reggaeton with the franchise in the collective imagination. As if its pace wasn’t enough, the film also introduced us to Leo and Santos, two characters played by Tego Calderón and Don Omar themselves and whom we saw again in ‘Fast & Furious 8’ (2017).

‘Fast & Furious X’ revives Daddy Yankee’s ‘Gasolina’

J Balvin, Nicky Jam, Fito Blanko, Farruko and Myke Towers have also appeared on the soundtracks of the sagabut it has been in the new chapter in which, as if they had hit the nitro, the catchy rhythms with a Puerto Rican aroma have definitively taken over the screen.

‘Fast & Furious X’ definitely embraces this trend, including songs like ‘Toretto‘, by J Balvin; ‘heals you‘, by Maria Becerra; ‘keep the party going‘, by Justin Quiles, Dalex and the Santa Fe Klan and, finally, ‘Gasolina’, a revision of the classic by Daddy Yankee and Myke Towers mixed by Safari Riot.

A saga attached to the street that has managed to flow over time, ignoring the industry to create its own universe, one in which cars fly, the chroma in the barbecues that in the persecutions and the dead return two films later.

On the other hand, Let’s not forget that Bigas Luna already did all this in Spain in 2006 and, while there they had Daddy Yankee, here the one who started the engines was the Haze.