- So exciting.
- (Past FBE) Today, we're about to do a genre
that is highly requested, Latin pop.
- (Brandon) Ah. So, you had to invite
a young Mexican kid. Perfect.
- That is funny.
- (Past FBE) This next music video is from artist Sofia Reyes
titled One, Two, Three or Uno, Dos, Tres
and features artist De La Ghetto and Jason Derulo.
- (Tori) Oh, okay. Jason Derulo is a big
artist here.
- ♪ Always a piece of shh ♪
- (Brandon) Oh, it's in English.
- ♪ You know how to be a ♪ - (Sergio) She's good.
- ♪ You know how to be a ♪
- I feel like everyone laughs at that point.
The tongue thing. When I go like...
- (Brandon) Yo, she's fly. - He's so funny.
- (Ary) Oh, look at him. Okay.
- (Sergio) Derulo's in the Spanish scene.
He has a couple of tracks.
- It was great. He's awesome.
That scene where he's grabbing my leg,
we're doing that whole thing, I was really nervous,
'cause it was the first time I get to work with Jason
and he's a great dancer, so I don't know.
I was kinda scared, but I--
that's probably my favorite scene.
- (Sheila) Jason Deluro. - Deluro.
That's my favorite outfit.
- (Tori) Her Spanglish, too. She transitions between it
so well. - I love that she says that.
This girl was saying that my English and Spanish
going back and forth was really smooth,
which is good.
I love this. - (Jonathan) I like this one
'cause it's a lot more high energy, too.
- ♪ (rapping in Spanish) ♪ - (Tori) Oh shoot, killing it.
- (Sergio) Oh, this is fire.
- (Scott) Nah. - He hated it.
- (Scott) That part? Give me some more
Jason Derulo.
- (Brandon) Sensual. - I want him to be
my friend.
- (Sergio) There's no American artist that's pulling
in numbers like Latino artists are pulling in right now.
- That's crazy.
- (Past FBE) What do you think it was about her that
made her stand out so that she was able to achieve success?
- (Lene) She's very talented and I feel like she--
her music's a little bit different than other people.
It's a little bit more unique. - I love what she says.
- (Brandon) Being able to collaborate with artists
that English speaking countries are familiar with.
If you don't understand anything else, at least
you understand the English part that Sofia sings
and Jason Derulo. - That's right.
- (Past FBE) At this point, do you even really see a difference
between Latin pop and what some might call
traditional American pop music? - Good question.
It should be just natural. It's just pop music
and it's good or it's bad or whatever.
- (Sergio) I don't see the difference from any pop
in general, if it comes from anywhere,
so that's just a matter of having your mind open.
- I agree with him.
- (Brandon) The lines have been blurred,
but I think we should never forget that
these are completely different cultures
and they should be appreciated for what they are.
- I mean, his point is interesting.
He's not saying it in a bad way.
He's just saying, we should appreciate
other cultures and that's cool.
- (Sheila) Right now, what we call pop
is more like a sweet raggaeton.
- Everything that we hear right now and that
radio stations play, is like raggaeton.
Like ballad singers for example.
Their music is not really playing on the radio anymore.
They're doing raggaeton music.
- (Cesar) I think it's gonna keep strong for some
more years, but you gotta watch out for those Koreans.
BTS, it's what my kids listen to that I don't
know what they're saying, but they got
a pretty good beat. - He's the cutest.
- (Sergio) It's not going anywhere.
Most of them are Latin artists that are not from
the United States. Just wait until we have
our own movement here. It's really gonna take over.
- Oh wow. I love doing this.
It's like doing homework somehow.
It's really important when you put a song out
to actually know what people feel about the song
and what they really think about this whole movement.
Obviously, I listen to the song and I know what the lyrics
are saying all the time, but some people just hear
(gibberish) and then English
and then (gibberish).
- (FBE) All right, so Sofia, what did you think
about how the adults reacted to you?
- I loved it. I think it was really,
really interesting. It makes me real happy
and I love that, as I was saying before,
they interview maybe ten different people
and it's good to know their point of view.
Sometimes you just put music out and then
you receive the comments from your fans,
which are mostly positive, but you really wanna see
how people actually react to the video
and they're not lying. It's just they like it or not,
so I think that's really important, 'cause that also
inspires me for the next music I'm gonna release.
- (FBE) So, there's so much color, fun, vibrancy, and creativity
in your music video and even somebody pointed out
it's very artsy, and then also you heard
that they were saying how there's this really nice blend
of the different genres and languages and your
fluid Spanglish mixed in. - Yeah.
- (FBE) So, how much of your own personal style
and sound goes into your music and your music videos?
- Yeah, well my style as an artist goes
100 percent to my music videos and my music in general.
To mix English and Spanish, I wanted to add pop
and put some Latin flavors.
It's the first time I added Cumbia to a song,
so that was a new experience for me as well.
I wanted to make a video that was very colorful.
For me, Mexico represents colors, so I wanted
to put a video like that. I feel like it's really
important to keep things authentic because when
a style of music gets very popular, everyone wants
to do the same thing. How can you do something
that's working and at the same time keeps true
to yourself as an artist and I feel like that's what
we found with 1 2 3. I feel really proud.
It took us a while, but I'm excited.
- (FBE) What are your thoughts on how music of all
different languages is being shared worldwide now
and the impact that it's having in this industry?
- I love it, I love it. I feel like it's really important.
I mean, the world is huge. It's just a moment for us.
I feel like it's gonna stay like this forever
and that makes me super, super happy.
I love languages. For me, it's all about
the culture and I love traveling.
I'm so happy that people's actually letting all this
language-- accepting all these languages.
- (FBE) So, how important would you say YouTube is
as a tool for aspiring musicians in today's landscape?
- It's a really important platform. You can put--
you can do a cover or whatever and if
people like it, it's gonna blow up.
It's so crazy. That's how my career
started actually. If you wanna put
yourself out, start by just uploading covers
and stuff like that on your YouTube channel
and people's gonna talk about it
and it's gonna become bigger and bigger.
- (FBE) You heard what the adults had to say
about you. - Yeah.
- (FBE) Now, we wanna see if there's anything you
wanted to say to the adults who reacted to you.
- Okay. You really made me happy
to see your reactions. I'm so glad you guys
liked it. It really inspired me.
Latin music could be big for the rest of our lives.
I want us to be friends. I really want us to be friends.
I just wanna say thank you FBE for having me today.
It was so much fun. I wanna do this all the time.
I need to come back for following events
and I'm gonna release new music very, very soon.
If you wanna know about that, follow me on
my social media @SofiaReyes.