Jesus Ortiz Paz, better known as ‘JOP,’ performs Fuerza Regida’s new album on July 25th at Don Quixote in Los Angeles. (Gisselle Palomera)
On July 25th, Fuerza Regida released their latest album “Pero No Te Enamores,” featuring Maluma and a new genre of music, Jersey Corridos, coined by Jesus Ortiz Paz, the band’s main singer. Core fans quickly responded to the album, saying the new album was not true to their original sound.
The singer took to BigBoyTV’s podcast on YouTube to speak about the new genre.
“I hear all these artists that are in my lane, and everything is sounding the same,” said Paz on the podcast. “I didn’t start panicking, cuz you know we’re number #1 on the top 10, but I was like, ‘no way the next thing I drop is going to sound like this.’”
Feeling the pressure to rise above the traditional genres of corridos and música Regional Mexicana to create something new after dominating the world of corridos, Paz released “Pero No Te Enamores,” featuring the new electronic sound that many fans compared to Bad Bunny.
Paz says that most of the songs they made for the album are based on that new genre, but three of the songs stay true to the original sound that popularized them on YouTube in 2017.
JOP performed alongside a DJ set and not the full banda ensemble with his crew supporting him on stage. (Gisselle Palomera)
“Bella,” the fifth song on the album, “Jesus,” and the last song titled after the album, “Pero No Te Enamores,” all featuring the fast strumming of the 12 string guitar by Samuel Jáimez, guitarra acústica by Khrystian Ramos, tuba by José García and Moisés López with the tololoche.
The band announced their tour earlier this year, on April 12. The band appeared on stage wearing jerseys embellished with the number 12.
The album art features a crossed out heart in silver and red that was originally painted as a pop-up mural on the liquor store in San Bernardino where Paz’s father frequents for beer.
The social media success of the mural unveiling led Paz to an idea. Billboard announced last month that Fuerza Regida would kick off their tour with more pop-up murals across the cities they were going to perform at throughout the tour. Paz stated that this is the album they have invested the most in, according to Billboard.
Paz hypes up the crowd to the final song of the new album, “Pero No Te Enamores,” closing out the launch party in collaboration with Spotify. (Gisselle Palomera)
Last year, the band made history after securing the top of Billboard’s Year-end Charts Top Artists – Duo/Group as the first Latin band to claim the spot.
In an interview with Apple Music, JOP said he had to go somewhere different to get a different perspective on building the new album, deciding to go to Colombia.
In the interview, Paz states that he was ready for the disapproval his new sound would get the band.
“I’m ready for the criticism of my core fans saying ‘this is wack,’” said Paz. ‘Because a lot of hardcore Mexicans don’t listen to [EDM].”
As soon as the album dropped, many fans took to social media channels to rant about their disapproval and disappointment with the new sound, claiming it was “worse than Chino Pacas doing cumbia.”
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