Daddy Yankee and Katy Perry pivoted for "Boss Baby"

Every Friday, I spend a few minutes browsing Spotify's collection of new and remarkable unique releases on my phone. Although I rarely listen to more than a few songs, it's a comforting ritual, a stress to which I cling even though I'm overwhelmed by the target audience for virtually every song published on a label having enough marketing influence to earn a spot on Spotify. New music page.

There is a constant visual continuity between album covers nowadays. Almost everything that appears seems to be easily inserted into a stylish Instagram thread, with generally a slightly offbeat image of a face (like this week's Beyoncé releases, Cage the Elephant and Gus Dapperton & nbsp), a photo striking of the artist is undressing (the art of Tyga's single "Goddamn" sees him sunbathing on a Lamborghini; Lizzo & # 39; s Because I like you has a bare, positive body and Shy Glizzy's N covered blood the rapper crouching shirtless behind a tiger while he is covered with blood) or something made by a computer (Beck's "Saw Lightning", Sech's Sueños, and "Earth," the star-studded single of the odious joke rapper Lil Dicky). So when something is outside of these strict and market-tested limits, it tends to take you. Such as:

I present to you, friends, the cover of the remix of "Con Calma" by Daddy Yankee, starring Katy Perry and the Canadian white reggae rapper Snow. The song is a bit like that – Daddy Yankee borrows his hook to "Inform," the 1992 incident hit by Snow himself, and if we borrow the nostalgic old town, I'd rather simply listen to "Inform" – but art … wow. Do you see the similarities between Daddy Yankee and Katy Perry's bubble-shaped cartoon heads and, um, this?

Yes, we are talking about dang Boss Baby, the main character of the Oscar-nominated animated film. The baby boss, in which Alec Baldwin plays a baby, who is a boss (but also a baby). I do not know why Papa Yankee and his team agreed on the entire Boss Baby project, but they did it and really decided to look into it. Here's the video of the original, non-Katy Perry song, in which Daddy Yankee raps a piece of the song with a Boss Baby head on his adult body:

The baby boss Since its existence has been announced, it's part of the memes. It's another impeccable concept that runs a computer-animated children's movie and fits perfectly into a genre including The Emoji movie (about talking Emoji), The Lego movie (speak Legos), and whatever the movie Minions. ("Alec Baldwin combines his impression of Trump with his character from this scene of Glengarry Glen Rossbut – get this – It's a baby with a big ass wearing a suit. Will he shit himself? Well he will shit himself, "said its author at a pitch meeting, I guess. And yet, his charming silence clearly strikes a cultural nerve, bringing in more than half a billion dollars at the box office and spawning a (unfortunately) Baldwin series with no children for children on Netflix.

Papa Yankee is not the only musician to deploy Baby patternstyle images. Charlotte rapper, NC, DaBaby (you may have seen the video of his single "Walker Texas Ranger", otherwise, get ready to live), finished his Baby Talk series of mixtapes of which one represents him as Boss Baby, dressed in a suit and talking on a cell phone the size of a brick. Given that DaBaby is by no means the only popular rapper with the word "baby" in his name, there's also Lil Baby from Atlanta, Bricc Baby Shitro from Los Angeles, Big Baby Scumbag from Florida, Birdman, the Head of Cash Money Records, whose nickname is "baby" – I can only assume that we will soon see more Boss Babies in hip-hop.