| La Modelo | |
| Cover: | La Modelo (Official Single Cover) by Ozuna.png |
| Border: | yes |
| Artist: | Ozuna featuring Cardi B |
| Type: | single |
| Album: | Aura |
| English Title: | "The Model" |
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| Label: | VP |
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| Chronology: | Ozuna |
| Prev Title: | Síguelo Bailando |
| Prev Year: | 2017 |
| Next Title: | Solita |
| Next Year: | 2018 |
"La Modelo" ("The Model") is a song by Ozuna and Cardi B. It was released by VP Records on December 22, 2017.[1] The track was written by Ozuna, Cardi B, José Aponte, Vincente Saavedra and its producers Yampi, Hi Flow, Gaby Music and Chris Jeday.[2] [3] It is the first single from Ozuna's second album Aura, released in August 2018.
Ozuna told Billboard, in an interview:
The song comprises a steady, mid-tempo dancehall-infused beat with a "reggaetón soul". Ozuna described the song as "Jamaican dancehall, brought to the club". Cardi B performs verses and choruses in Spanish and a rap bridge in English.
In Pitchfork, Matthew Ismael Ruiz opined how "Cardi's versatility is on full display... The tender [Ozuna]'s smoothed[-]out alto suits Cardi's grittier voice, and they manage to capture the bubbly giddiness of fresh love with a casual swagger. Her bars in English are merely serviceable, but she sounds at home crooning in Spanish alongside Ozuna." He concluded by saying "The song highlights why Cardi is so important to pop this year: Her bilingual, pan-Caribbean aesthetic represents a modern depiction of Latinidad, and proves its mainstream appeal."[4] In 2022, Rolling Stone listed the song at number 100 on its list of the 100 greatest reggaetón songs of all time.[5]
Directed by Nuno Gomes and filmed in Jamaica, the music video was released on December 19, 2017.[6] The video features a short sequence of street scenes and various people around Jamaica, before panning-out to the shot of a giant mansion overlooking the ocean. Inside the mansion, and on the front steps, Cardi B and a troupe of female dancers perform. Ozuna appears throughout, as well as scene inside the mansion with Cardi (without dancers), and in several scenes in the middle of an intersection in Jamaica. During the rap bridge, both singers and their dancers are filmed at a house party scene, with Cardi rapping on the dancefloor.
On Ozuna's official channel on YouTube, the music video currently has over 3.1 million likes and 565 million views (as of 2024).[7]
| Chart (2018) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Dominican Republic (Monitor Latino)[8] | 1 |
| Honduras (Monitor Latino)[9] | 9 |
| Panama (Monitor Latino)[10] | 5 |
| Spain (PROMUSICAE)[11] | 50 |
| Chart (2018) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Dominican Republic (Monitor Latino)[12] | 23 | |
| El Salvador (Monitor Latino)[13] | 64 | |
| Guatemala (Monitor Latino)[14] | 53 | |
| Honduras (Monitor Latino)[15] | 27 | |
| Nicaragua (Monitor Latino)[16] | 96 | |
| Panama (Monitor Latino)[17] | 7 | |
| US Hot Latin Songs (Billboard)[18] | 8 | |
| US Latin Airplay (Billboard)[19] | 18 | |
| US Latin Digital Songs (Billboard)[20] | 7 | |
| US Latin Pop Airplay Songs (Billboard)[21] | 28 | |
| US Latin Streaming Songs (Billboard)[22] | 8 | |
| Chart (2019) | Position | |
| Panama (Monitor Latino)[23] | 65 |