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Background
àtúnṣe"Desabrigado" was the first song to be recorded for the album. It was written by Mason Hale and Maluma, and produced by Andrés Torres and Noah "40" Shebib. In mid-2016, Hale and Maluma began to follow each other on social media with both praising each other's work. After speculation that they would be recording a duet due to developing a friendship and posting several photos and videos together on social media, Maluma posted a picture on the Instagram on September 12 with both of them in the recording studio. The recording ended in November 23. Although the song was originally planned to be the album's first single, Hale released "Polvo" featuring Ricky Martin, which topped 37 countrys and received high successes worldwide and positive reviews from critics.
On July 10, 2017, Hale announced on his social networks that his second single from his fourth studio album, X, would be a song featuring Maluma, posting along the cover of the single, consisting of both side-by-side underneath an umbrella while it rains. On July 13, 2017, Maluma uploaded a six-second teaser video of a blue background to social media. In an interview on the Live with Kelly and Ryan, Maluma said "I felt embarrassed to share the studio with Hale because I felt small next to him. He has a lot of talent."
Composition
àtúnṣe"Desabrigado" is a reggaeton-pop song written in the time signature of common time, with a moderate tempo of 104–108 beats per minute. It is composed in the key of Ab major as duo's voices span the tonal nodes of D3 to G♯5. "Work from Home" follows a chord progression of Fm–D♭—A♭. During the middle eight, the song slows down with synthetic strings and bass beats, and the section ends with a beat similar to a four-on-the floor, a rhythm pattern popularized in 1970s disco music.
Lyrically, the track describes someone looking for a place to shelter at night, referring to a one night only relationship. In the chorus of the song, they sing, "Sólo voy a dar una noche / Si el entretenimiento es lo que quieres / ¡Entonces, baby, yo soy el mejor! / Vamos a quitar el espacio entre mí y usted / He estado en todas las naciones / Pero nadie me hizo sentir de la manera que usted hizo", ending with an extended moan. During the second part of the chorus, there is a reference to the American singer Britney Spears song "3".
Critical reception
àtúnṣe"Desabrigado" received generally positive reviews from music critics. Matthew Wilkening from AOL Radio Blog said that the song "aims directly for the dance floor with a galloping, club-ready dance beat, along with an insistent, heavily synthesized keyboard zipping all over the place. [...] Maluma's slightly processed vocals drip with confidence, and depending on which version you hear, a healthy dose of profanity as he demands some loving". Erica Y. Lopez from Fox News Latino said "With the star power Mason brings to the table and a very danceable beat accompanying the track, it is conceivable that the clean version would be a hit in its own right -- but add one of the heaviest cuss words in the Spanish language [...] it is basically club ready". Robbie Daw of Idolator called the song a "fragile and beautiful" track, whilst his colleague, Becky Bain, said that the song is a "perfect match for the duo's voices". Joan Wallace of Latin Timesnoted that the song is about "ambivalence, vulnerability, and fear" of casual sex.
Live Performances
àtúnṣeOn July 6th, Mason and Maluma sang an excerpt from "Desabrigado" at Premios Juventud and later on July 16 performed the full song on Saturday Night Live. On August 13, 2017, Hale and Maluma performed the song on the 2017 Teen Choice Awards. The Variety magazine described the performance as a highlight of the ceremony. Entertainment Weekly also said that "Hale gave one of her most energetic televised performances in years." Jennifer Keishin Armstrong of the same magazine declared that "They acquitted themselves nicely, if not particularly memorable." Joyce Chen of Us Weekly labeled it as a "Stellar performance." On August 24, Mason and Maluma performed the song at Your World Awards, where during the performance they sang inside a Lucha Libre ring in a battle royal match against luchadores like Ricochet, Brian Cage, Justin Gabriel, John Morrison, Phenix, Chavo Guerrero Jr., Matuta Cueto, Rey Mysterio, and Matt Cross. On September 23, on the iHeartRadio Music Festival, Hale and Maluma performed an 15 minutes medley of "Desabrigado", "Polvo", "Vente Pa' Ca", "Chantaje", "Ainda Há Tempo", "Por Amarte" and "Felices los 4" along with Ricky Martin, Shakira, and Luan Santana. They went to perform the 15-minutes medley in the United Kingdom's Apple Music Festival on September 27.
The song is also part of the set list of Hale's X-Future Worl Tour, which started on August 20, 2017.
MTV Video Music Awards
àtúnṣeOn July 30, Maluma revealed during an an interview with Miami's Romance 107.5 Monday that they would perform the song at 2017 MTV Video Music Awards, which the performance was going to be kind of a continuation for the music video, with both going on character's planet, along with other creatures. On August 27, 2017, Hale and Maluma performed "Desabrigado", along with Meluma's "Felices los 4", live for the first time at the the awards ceremony, making their first VMA appearance. Following Maluma's entrance, Hale performed the chorus of "Felices los 4" then returning to sing Desabrigado. As the performance continued, Hale climbed into a tractor driving him from the second stage to the main stage, knocking down a wall created in the middle of the stage and then burning a puppet of a blond old man.
These moments were referred to as Donald Trump and the wall he promised to build around the United States against Latinos. Time writer Nash Jankins opined that the "intense, thoroughly choreographed" performance of the song, was a further proof of Hale becoming more politically involved with his music. August Brown of Los Angeles Times called the performance "powerful, politically and aesthetically charged". Billboard praised their performance for its dynamic and intense choreography and its political themes. Matthew Dessem, writing for Slate magazine, called the performance "intensely necessary, portraying the xenophobia suffered by Latinos" and that "Hale had the soul of the VMA". The Daily Beast's Marlow Stern praised both singers for being in their top forms, with Beyoncé particularly being "note-perfect" and summarized the performance as "the rare case of a performer as hyped as Beyoncé actually exceeding sky-high expectations".
Music video
àtúnṣeThe song's accompanying music video for the song was filmed mid-June 2017 and was directed by Yasha Malekzad. The video was shot over four days in Los Cabos, Mexico. Hale explains that it’s "a little more cinematic, a little more of a long story." Before the video premiere, two snippets of the music video were offered as teasers through their accounts on Instagram. The music video premiered on July 20, 2017 on Hale's Vevo account on YouTube. In the first 24 hours the video reached 25.7 million views, becoming the eighth most viewed video on the internet in the first 24 hours and the third most viewed video clip, where it later dropped to third position after Taylor Swift hit the first position with "Look What You Made Me Do" on August 27. As of September 2017, the music video has over 500 million views.
Synopsis
àtúnṣeThe video consists of Mason coming down a ladder while several people are climbing. The camera then moves into a house where it is having a party. Meanwhile several scenes of people having fun are shown. When the verse of Maluma approaches, he is seen being refused of several houses while it asks for to spend the night. During this time it starts to rain and then the two are shown dancing in the rain on the street accompanied by other people while lightning and thunder also appear. During the choreography are inserted similar movements of "Umbrella"'s music-video by Rihanna as a form of tribute. At the end of the clip, Mason and Maluma are sitting on the sidewalk wet and laughing as a mysterious car arrives to offer them a ride.
Reception
àtúnṣeSabrina Cognata of WNOW-FM wrote, "This video has everything. And I mean everything worth having." Katie Atkinson of Billboardclaimed that the video "delivers exactly what the song promises." Robert Copsey from Digital Spy gave a positive review for the video, enjoying the rain part and praising the dance breakdown, which included, according to him, "a wonderfully choreographed breakdown moment".
Commercial performance
àtúnṣeThe track quickly rose to the top of the charts and became a huge success in Latin America also reaching other continents with moderate success. "Desabrigado" debuted at number ninety-two on the US Billboard Hot 100 where it remained in the following weeks between positions fifty and seventy. Following their performance at MTV Music Video Awards and the music video's release, it rose up to number eight and entered the country's Latin Streaming Songs chart at number 1 with 25.7 million streams and its 6.4 million audio impressions let it reach No. 1 on the US Latin Airplay chart. The song became Maluma's third song to enter the Hot 100 and his highest-charting single, surpassing "Felices los 4", which peaked at number 48 on August 5, 2017. This was also Maluma's second number one on US Latin Songs and Mason's 19th number one. it was later certified double-platinum by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The song reached number thirty three on Canada and was certified Gold by Music Canada, which was Maluma's highest sucess in the country. In the United Kingdom, the song hitted the number seven on the UK Singles Chart where he remained for five weeks in that position.
In Latin American, the song topped the charts of Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Cuba, Colombia, Paraguay, Bolivia, Chile, Panama, Venezuela, Uruguay and Ecuador. In Brazil, the song became the best-selling song in history in one week, selling 55,000 copies and debuting at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay, where it was later certified three times as a diamond by Pro-Música Brasil for selling more than 720,000 copies. In Argentina, the song debuted in the first place and remained for four weeks, making it the first song by Mason and Maluma to debut first in the country. In Mexico, the song reached number one and spent four successive weeks at the top of the AMPROFON, removing Maluma's own song "Felices los 4" from the position, which caused Mason to break the record for most consecutive songs on the top of the chart, with three: "Polvo", "Despacito" and "Desabrigado". The song was later certified double-diamond by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for completing sales of 720,000 downloads.
Credits and personnel
àtúnṣeCredits adapted from x album liner notes.
- Mason Hale – lead vocals, background vocals, songwriting, vocal producing
- Maluma – vocals, songwriting
- Andrés Torres – production
- Noah "40" Shebib – production
- Shellback – songwriting, production, keyboards, guitars
- Serban Ghenea – mixing
- Carlos Hernandez Carbonell – recording engineer
- Gustavo Celis – recording engineering
- Olgui Chirino – additional vocal arrangement
- Andrés Castro – guitar, bass, keyboards, programming,
Charts
àtúnṣeWeekly charts
àtúnṣe| Chart | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Argentina (Monitor Latino) | 1 |
| Argentina Digital (CAPIF) | 1 |
| Australia (ARIA) | 75 |
| Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) | 15 |
| Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) | 41 |
| Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia) | 9 |
| Brazil (Billboard Hot 100 Airplay) | 1 |
| Brazil Pop 20 Airplay (Billboard) | 1 |
| Canada (Canadian Hot 100) | 33 |
| Chile (Monitor Latino) | 1 |
| Colombia (National-Report) | 1 |
| Czech Republic (Rádio Top 100) | 5 |
| Czech Republic (Singles Digitál Top 100) | 3 |
| Denmark (Tracklisten) | 1 |
| Dominican Republic (Monitor Latino) | 1 |
| Ecuador (Monitor Latino) | 1 |
| Europe Digital Songs (Billboard) | 1 |
| Europe (European Hot 100 Singles) | 1 |
| Finland (Suomen virallinen lista) | 22 |
| France (SNEP) | 17 |
| Germany (Official German Charts) | 10 |
| Germany (Airplay Chart) | 8 |
| Greece Digital Songs (Billboard) | 88 |
| Guatemala (Monitor Latino) | 1 |
| Hungary (Rádiós Top 40) | 8 |
| Hungary (Dance Top 40) | 5 |
| Hungary (Single Top 40) | 4 |
| Israel (Media Forest) | 6 |
| Italy (FIMI) | 3 |
| Japan (Japan Hot 100) | 53 |
| Latin America (Monitor Latino) | 1 |
| Mexico Airplay (Billboard) | 1 |
| Mexico (AMPROFON) | 1 |
| Mexico (Monitor Latino) | 1 |
| Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) | 20 |
| Netherlands (Single Top 100) | 12 |
| New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) | 30 |
| Panama (Monitor Latino) | 1 |
| Paraguay (Monitor Latino) | 1 |
| Peru (Monitor Latino) | 1 |
| Philippines (Philippine Hot 100) | 35 |
| Poland (Dance Top 50) | 44 |
| Portugal (AFP) | 8 |
| Romania Radio Airplay (Media Forest) | 6 |
| Romania (Romanian Top 100) | 6 |
| South Korea (Gaon) | 16 |
| Spain (PROMUSICAE) | 1 |
| Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) | 39 |
| Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) | 1 |
| UK Singles (Official Charts Company) | 7 |
| Uruguay (Monitor Latino) | 1 |
| US Billboard Hot 100 | 8 |
| US Dance Club Songs (Billboard) | 18 |
| US Adult Contemporary (Billboard) | 35 |
| US Adult Top 40 (Billboard) | 30 |
| US Latin Airplay (Billboard) | 1 |
| US Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard) | 1 |
| US Hot Latin Songs (Billboard) | 1 |
| US Rhythmic (Billboard) | 32 |
| US Tropical Airplay (Billboard) | 14 |
| Venezuela (Monitor Latino) | 1 |
| Venezuela (Monitor Latino) | 1 |
| Venezuela (Record Report) | 1 |
Monthly charts
àtúnṣeCertifications
àtúnṣe| Region | Certification | Certified units/Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) | 3× Diamond | 750,000 |
| Canada (Music Canada) | Gold | 40,000 |
| Mexico (AMPROFON) | 2× Diamond | 720,000 |
| Portugal (AFP) | 10× Platinum | 200,000 |
| Spain (PROMUSICAE) | 2× Platinum | 120,000 |
| Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) | Gold | 10,000 |
| United States (RIAA) | 2× Platinum (Latin) | 120,000 |
| Worldwide | – | 2,100,000^ |