Living in the average man's fantasy world, Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull throw a wild massive party and, of course, craziness ensues, and get positively down and dirty with scantily-clad ladies in their new eye-popping music video for the club-ready anthem "I'm a Freak," the third English language, and fifth overall, single featuring Pitbull from Iglesias' upcoming album "Sex + Love," scheduled for release on March 18. This time, Iglesias is getting freaky and he is not ashamed to show it.
Unlike recent teaser "El Perdedor," which saw the 38-year-old Spanish heartthrob return to his Latin pop roots, "I'm A Freak" is an unsurprisingly pure party anthem and a decent dance-pop/electro house track featuring a typically hedonistic production from The Cataracs. Despite its wave of EDM bleeps, pulsing beats and suggestive and provocative lyrics, the song is a little more melodic and a little less bombastic than recent club bangers "Turn The Night Up" and "Finally Found You." The song still oozes enough party mojo that would probably be a crowd-pleaser and get any party animal crazy on the dance floor.
"I'm A Freak," about being a sex addict, follows in the age-old music tradition of objectifying women as male performers boast about their sexual prowess. It's actually a testament to how little the basic music video format has changed at all since the 90s - it's like if Hollywood had never stopped making "Die Hard" movies. The thing is, your initial reaction to this might be that it's a terrible load of misogynistic horseshit that to any sensible onlooker accidentally demeans the song's male participants just as much as it deliberately demeans the video's female stars. And you would probably be right.
Now the pair have hooked up for the fifth time on their newest collab "I'm a Freak," and in a house filled with women partying, the Collin Tilley-directed clip pans throughout the wild and crazy pool party with the hypnotic dance beat of "I'm A Freak," as Iglesias sings and Pitbull raps about their sexual proclivities, while being surrounded by the girls, who dance, twerk to the song and try to seduce them. The end result feels a lot like 2013's "The Internship." It marks the return of a dynamic duo (Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn), being exactly where they shouldn't be, only in a scenario that somehow feels three times as bizarre and long. It's kind of a headache, but as the viewing public will likely say, "Life's a party. Crash It."
Unlike recent teaser "El Perdedor," which saw the 38-year-old Spanish heartthrob return to his Latin pop roots, "I'm A Freak" is an unsurprisingly pure party anthem and a decent dance-pop/electro house track featuring a typically hedonistic production from The Cataracs. Despite its wave of EDM bleeps, pulsing beats and suggestive and provocative lyrics, the song is a little more melodic and a little less bombastic than recent club bangers "Turn The Night Up" and "Finally Found You." The song still oozes enough party mojo that would probably be a crowd-pleaser and get any party animal crazy on the dance floor.
"I'm A Freak," about being a sex addict, follows in the age-old music tradition of objectifying women as male performers boast about their sexual prowess. It's actually a testament to how little the basic music video format has changed at all since the 90s - it's like if Hollywood had never stopped making "Die Hard" movies. The thing is, your initial reaction to this might be that it's a terrible load of misogynistic horseshit that to any sensible onlooker accidentally demeans the song's male participants just as much as it deliberately demeans the video's female stars. And you would probably be right.
Now the pair have hooked up for the fifth time on their newest collab "I'm a Freak," and in a house filled with women partying, the Collin Tilley-directed clip pans throughout the wild and crazy pool party with the hypnotic dance beat of "I'm A Freak," as Iglesias sings and Pitbull raps about their sexual proclivities, while being surrounded by the girls, who dance, twerk to the song and try to seduce them. The end result feels a lot like 2013's "The Internship." It marks the return of a dynamic duo (Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn), being exactly where they shouldn't be, only in a scenario that somehow feels three times as bizarre and long. It's kind of a headache, but as the viewing public will likely say, "Life's a party. Crash It."
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