"Fuego" (
English: "Fire") is a song recorded by French DJ and record producer
DJ Snake, Jamaican rapper
Sean Paul, and Brazilian singer
Anitta featuring Puerto Rican record producer
Tainy,[4] from DJ Snake's second studio album Carte Blanche, which was released on 26 July 2019.[5][6] It was simultaneously released as a single.[7]
Background
Anitta took the song to
Rock in Rio, a festival that took place from 27 September to 6 October 2019 in Rio de Janeiro, creating a high expectation for the new track, and by unveiling it to the public.[8] She later said about the song : "This song is important to me for a number of reasons. Firstly, DJ Snake is considered one of the greatest DJs of the moment. [...] He is extremely giant, has several hits that the whole Brazil dances, sings, memes, viralizes. [...] And because I have Sean Paul, Sean Paul, he was part of my life story, I grew up listening to Sean Paul."[9]
Critical reception
Katie Stone from EDM.com called the song a "reggaeton smash" endowed with "sultry vocals and an infectious production", and noted that it's "the type of single that will get the dance floors bumping and grinding".[2] In the same way, DJ Mag France, Switzerland & Belgium described "Fuego" as "a new hit crossover that moves away from EDM to better embrace reggaeton and dancehall sounds".[10] Writing for Idolator, Mike Nied compared the release to DJ Snake's 2018 song "
Taki Taki".[11]
Music video
First, a lyric video of the track was made. It consists of a colourful lyrical animation video featuring dancers, it was posted on 31 July 2019 through DJ Snake
YouTube channel. In her
Instagram, Anitta released a short of a choreography and included the name of the DJ, in addition to a countdown, in order to raise hints for an upcoming music video.[12] He posted a teaser on 9 October via his social media,[13] and launched a premiere for the video, which was scheduled for the following day. It was released on 10 October, through his YouTube channel.[14][15] Shot in
Los Angeles, USA, in August 2019,[16] and directed by award-winning
Colin Tilley,[17][18] who worked for
Kendrick Lamar,
Rihanna,
Nicki Minaj and
Justin Timberlake, it takes place in a mysterious world, reminiscent of an old circus,[19] "full of maze of mirrors, fire tunnels and threatening forests".[18] In turn, DJ Snake, Sean Paul and Anitta each write their own mini-narrative.[20] DJ Snake is dancing around a dark area where he hangs near to a wolf and intermittently changes his jacket, while Sean Paul sings from inside a tunnel of fire.[11][21] Anitta appears with several neat models, wiggling and stepping alongside dancers in a water mirror.[8] According to Katie Stone from EDM.com, the video is "set to be as spicy and sexy as the song it accompanies".[2] Katie Bain from Billboard noted that "the lighting makes everyone look sexy". Then, she wrote that the clip has a "slick, shiny effect" which raise the temperature.[21]
Commercial performance
Before having a clip, the song has been streamed over 14 million times on
Spotify and the lyric video had over 4 millions of views.[22] The song also entered position 40 in the US Hot
Dance/Electronic Songs chart during the week of 10 August, before it even had a clip.[23] The music video, released on 10 October 2019, was also viewed nearly 300,000 times in just over an hour,[24] and 500,000 times in less than two hours after it went online.[16]