SIGUE/FOREVER MY LOVE EP REVIEW

 J Balvin and Ed Sheeran dropped last Friday a joint EP of two songs with the original and unseen title of... The titles of the two songs together! The EP comes after Sheeran has been flirting with Latin music for a while, as he did in Camila Cabellos's Bam Bam. This time he has tried to speak Spanish (which remains a little unpolished yet). 

The EP's two songs (Sigue and Forever My love) are the result of an unexpected friendship between the two artists after meeting in a gym in Manhattan last year- Ed Sheeran told Apple Music-. 

The first one, Sigue, is a reggaeton track -produced by Tainy- where Sheeran shows he's really into Balvin's world (similar to Sheeran's featurings in the UK rap scene, Stormzy's Own It for example) with  sexual references, showing off and the same thoughtful rhyme, like when he sings 'Sigue que a mí me gusta todo lo que exhibes' (Continue because I like what you exhibit) - maybe some people commonly use the verb exhibit while flirting but I don't think is the most used word-. Balvin keeps making some other calculated and considered rhymes in his verse ('Tu mentalidad es mi debilidad /Llama a tu amiga para que hagamos una trinidad// Yor mentality is my weakness/Call your friend to make a trio), the classic rhyme finished in - eo (bellaqueo, bolleteo, perreo...), while playing with the states of matter to make sexual metaphors (Si tú eres sólida, te pongo líquida'// If you're solid, I'll turn you to liquid)

The track cringe-peaks when Sheeran sings in the pre-chorus ' tu blanquito pelirrojo', which comes out of nowhere. 

The second song, Forever My Love, is the typical Sheeran's acoustic guitar ballad . In this song, both artists want to show us their tenderness -that lacked in the first track- and sing about unconditional love. In the video, Balvin plays the guitar. This could be a reference to Residente's diss track with Argentinian producer Bizarrap, where the Calle 13's frontman called Balvin racist, said he doesn't write his own songs and criticised his spirituality and his use of autotune- among other things.

The connection between both artists doesn't add much in the combination,leaving each artist playing around  to make the music that they usually don't do with an effortless writing in the lyrics.





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