Feid

One Liner: Reggaeton/Urbano in Spanish
Wikipedia Genre: Urbano 
Home: Medellin, Columbia

Poster Position: Top Line - Line 2
Day: Sunday
Both Weekends.

Thoughts:  Always a fascinating thing to realize how limited your musical scope is.  I think I listen to an absolute ton of music, and yet I've never even heard the name of this guy who has FIVE billion stream songs in his top ten on Spotify.  But have I ever heard anyone say the word "Feid" before?  No, dear reader, I have not.  In fact, I need to figure out how you pronounce it.  Actually fascinating.  Not like feed, and not like the end of Bonafide.  You pronounce it like the word "faith," but with a Spanish emphasis.  Sort of like "fade," but with a little faiid to it.  There you go.  Faiide.

Salomon Villada Hoyos is from Medellin, Columbia, and also performs under the name Ferxxo.  To my extremely untrained ear, this just sounds like Bad Bunny.  Wikipedia calls this style of music "urbano," but also mentions that he got into reggaeton after he stopped playing the clarinet.  His background on Wikipedia is pretty limited - his dad is a university professor in "arts" and his mom is a preschool teacher and psychologist.  He got to work with other reggaeton artists like J Balvin, which helped him get bigger.  He is also apparently a partner to Karol G, who was here previously.

I winded about this last year when Carin Leon took this exact same spot on the poster.  Annoying to have an artist I can't understand at all take over a top tier spot in the lineup.  Yes, I know he is insanely popular.  But also, for me personally, this is just something I won't go watch.

His first singles popped out in 2014, but he didn't start getting serious streams until 2016 singles, about the time he partnered with J Balvin.  9 albums - 2017's Asi Como Suena, 2019's 19, 2020's FERXXO (VOL 1:M.O.R.), 2020's BAHIA DUCATI, 2021's INTER SHIBUYA - LA MAFIA, 2022's FELIZ CUMPLEANOS FERXXO TE PIRATEAMOS EL ALBUM (wtf is up with these album titles?), 2023's MOR, No Le Temas a La Obscuridad, 2023's FERXXOCALIPSIS, 2024's LOS 9 DE FERXXO Y SKY ROMPIENDO.  Typing all of that out truly sucked ass.  He has a million singles as well.

Top track is from FERXXOCALIPSIS, called "LUNA" and with 1.25 billion streams.  Also features something called ATL Jacob.

Sure.  No clue what he is saying, and the beat really gets me nothing.  I know that a lot of people disagree with me on that, which is fine, but I just don't get the appeal.  We'll do one more just to give you the flavor.  Second biggest is "Feliz Cumpleanos Ferxxo" with 1.20 billion streams.

I never want to come off as dismissing of these sorts of artists, and I'm sure someone from Columbia thinks that every Pearl Jam song sounds just the same, but ...  I think that maybe because I don't know the words, those just sound like another noise in the song, so that it just feels like the same beat with the same vocal noise over and over again.  I'll find something else to check out during this hour and leave it to the fun people to go dance their asses off.