“Sin Pijama” withoutNatti Natasha? Nuh-uh.
Appearing on Thursday’s episode ofRed Table Talk: The Estefans,Becky Greveals that she had to fight to have Natti on their 2018 duet “Sin Pijama.” (PEOPLE has an exclusive clip of the episode.)
“I always believed in this song. I was like, ‘This is so cool. This is full reggaetón. How cool would it be if we got another female on the song?’ " Becky G, 24, said. “I got the runaround for a very long time. I remember I just reached out to Natti myself.”
Becky contacted Natti, 34, and sent her the song before the “Mayores” songstress heard from someone on her team.
“I remember someone on my team said, ‘If you think it’s such a hit, why would you want to share it?’ " Becky told Lili, Emily andGloria Estefan, who expressed their shock. “And I said, ‘Because hit songs happen every day.’ "
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" ‘I don’t want a hit song,’ " she added. " ‘I want a moment in history.’ "
The track made history for the female collaboration, going platinum 38 times in the U.S. The track boasts nearly 650 million plays on Spotify, while its music video, which features Prince Royce, has been viewed over 1.5 billion times.
On Thursday’s episode ofRTT:TE, both Becky G and Brazilian superstar Anitta join the Estefans to talk about sexism, love and how Becky had a “mid-life crisis” when she was just 9. Anitta also revealed how her mom reacted when she came out as bi.
Earlier this month, Beckycaught up with PEOPLEabout her relationship with LA Galaxy player Sebastian Lletget.
“He can communicate with myabuelitos.It’s cute. It’s really sweet,” she said then. “It’s just a different connection, I think, when someone does relate to your culture. But even then, within the Latinx community, there’s so many differences.”
As for Natti, she recently dropped her albumNattividad.
“I know that in the Spanish market they don’t accept it so much — a woman being in the urban market,“she told PEOPLE. “So I was like, I don’t know if I’m going to be judged [or] if it’s going to be accepted. I speak the way I speak and I’m going to be a mother. I can’t ask for permission to be happy in all aspects of my life.”
“I’m just going to break the rules,” she added.
TheRed Table Talk: The Estefansepisode with Becky and Anitta goes live Thursday at 12 p.m. ET on Facebook Watch.
source: people.com
