“That’s not okay”: that’s how EMIL and Patrick Romantik recorded their hit with Ir-Sais | VIDEO

It has only been playing on radio and digital platforms for a few weeks, but “That’s not okay” has already brought several satisfactions to its authors. so much that Go-Sais He exemplifies it with an anecdote that happened to him about two weeks ago in his native Bonaire. He was walking down the street, when a boy separated himself from a group of about 10 people to ask him a question: “Are you the one who sings with EMIL? We are Peruvians”, the boy told him that he had arrived on the island on a cruise ship.

“I felt so good, because things like this happen means that there are people embracing the song,” explains the author and performer of “Dreamgirl”, one of the most viral songs on TikTok during 2020. “That is the most beautiful feeling in the world, it makes you realize that your music is reaching people and you make music to reach people”, adds EMIL, during a Zoom chat we had with the artists about the good reception the song has been receiving. .

Patrick Romantik, one of the most internationally recognized Peruvian producers, responsible for some of the successes of Enrique Iglesias, Natti Natasha, Becky G and CNCO, is a fundamental part of ” Así no vale “, as he brought to the studio what he considers a of its main weapons: the cumbia.

a new beat

The theme was born when Ir-Sais arrived in Miami to work on new songs with different producers. Among them, Romantik. “I wanted something different and I must say that Patrick Romantik is the most connected, talented and respectful producer that I have seen in all of Latin America, that is why everyone respects him,” explains the Bonairean about the session in which they created a fused cumbia with the typical styles of the Ir-Sais region: the zouk and the kizomba.

“With a bit of the sound of my island and Patrick’s cumbia we made a new sound, which hopefully in the future young people will listen to ‘ Así no vale’, be inspired by that rhythm, and continue to do so and evolve, “says Ir- Sais about the song that finished tuning on a trip to Medellin.

In order to continue expanding his project with collaborations from more Latin artists, he arrived in Colombia and met Emilio Jaime, the young Peruvian who moved to Medellín in 2020 to shape EMIL, his musical project.

“I listened to the song and identified the sounds of cumbia. I told the people on my team that a cumbia in Peru was going to work anyway, because here we listen to more cumbia than reggaeton”, EMIL recalls about the moment he joined the song and what his first collaboration also means with a Peruvian producer.

“What an original thing came out! And it wasn’t a copy of anything, we didn’t arrive saying ‘let it sound like one’, everything happened the way music is made: with creativity, with essence. And with EMIL’s work on the lyrics, the song was precise, it was naughty and sexy. I am glad that a compatriot is reaching out to other ears and hopefully the Peruvian public will also support us to go further”, explains Romantik.

Traveling the world

At the moment, the song already has more than 6 million views on YouTube and, figures from the radio measurement company Monitor Latino, place the song among one of the most played on radio in countries such as Bolivia, Ecuador and Paraguay.

For its authors, this represents one more step in its goal to take its music beyond its borders. In the case of Ir-Sais, he is convinced that he can make “his little island of him” have more of a presence on the music scene, and in the case of EMIL and Patrick, they want to show the full potential of Peruvian artists.

“It would be very nice to be able to visit those squares where the song is playing and obviously it also makes me happy that people here in my country are listening to the song, it shows me that progress is being made with the work here, although sometimes I feel that here in the Peru costs me a little more”, says EMIL.

For Patrick Romantik, Peru is a country that is very rich in rhythms and, from his platform, he seeks to incorporate more of those sounds into international hits.

“For me it is an honor to be able to bring the rhythms of my country, like cumbia, which is not necessarily Peruvian, but has its own style here. Being able to carry that as a flag, as an essence in my music and for those sounds to cross borders, honors me. I take my cumbia to the studio as if it were a weapon,” says the producer, who agrees with EMIL on the need to give more support to national proposals, which tend to be relegated in the measurements of music streaming by foreign artists.

“We have to support our talents so that they take their music to other countries, because they will be accepted anyway, there are always people like Ir-Sais who open the doors of their countries and that enriches us all, but we need the support of the Peruvians, that they support the Peruvians, that there is that affection and musical patriotism”, Romantik sentences.

THE DATA:

• Emil will present a ‘mixtape’ on February 23, which will include the songs “Vaso Roto”, “ Así no vale” and two new songs that will come out with the mini album. In the middle of 2022 he will come out with his first extended album.
• Patrik Romantik is about to release a song that he worked for Pedro Capó and Conkarah, famous for his hit on TikTok, “Banana”. He will also release his first cumbia album between April and June with several collaborations with Peruvian and international artists.
• Ir-Sais will soon release a song with Farina with a video they recorded in their native Bonaire. Also an EP with 5 songs, including feats with other Spanish-speaking artists such as Manuel Turizo.

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