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Tokischa and J Balvin recorded the song “Perra”, which generated a controversy in Colombia due to the images contained in the video.
Although he already did it some time ago, the Colombian J Balvin will not to apologize or run legal mishaps for the lyrics of the song “Perra”, which he recorded in collaboration with the Dominican Tokischa. inadmissible a guardianship against J Balvin for “Perra”, which last October caused controversial because in the video two Afro-descendant women appear with a necklace around their neck, dog ears and nose, and they are subdued by treating them like animals and slaves. in its ruling “the current lack of object (of guardianship), by fact overcome, since it is evident that the piece of music was deleted from the reproduction platform in which it was found and, likewise, the inté rprete offered public apologies, as indicated in precedence”.
In said 16-page ruling, Judge César Palomino Cortés concluded that that “the current lack of object by fact overcome, within the action of amparo of the reference, in attention to what was exposed in precedence”.
This against the protection established by Leonardo Santo Petro Llorente, who called for the protection of the rights of black communities and Afro-descendant populations, for the women who appeared in said video.
“Regarding the arguments pointed out by the actor (Petro Llorente) according to which the musical piece could become disrespectful towards women, to the extent that its lyrics and staging were degrading and misleading.” Pages, the Chamber considers that it was up to the judge to attend to the aforementioned arguments, since they were directly related to an alleged form of discrimination.” is read in the failure arguments.
The Council of State points out that in the guardianship it referred to that “the supervised authorities violated the aforementioned rights, as a consequence of the observance of an omissive conduct, which resulted in in a permissive attitude regarding the reproduction of the aforementioned song in mass media and content platforms.
Faced with this fact, the Council indicates that “consequently, it requested that the aforementioned artist be ordered to offer public excuses, due to the content of the work”
And the court of justice reiterates that having reviewed the content of the report submitted by the artist and consulted the evidence that rests in plenary, “the Chamber finds that it eliminated the original video of the bitch song that had been uploaded on his official channel of the YouTube streaming platform.”
Upon complying with what was requested by the authorities on the subject, it is clarified that there is no room for more resources on an issue that has already been ruled on. the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo.
+ The context
When the the controversy, in October 2021, J Balvin himself offered The apologies “from him; to all the people who were offended, especially women and the black community”.
The video of “Perra”, which was removed from YouTube, caused a stir. even a scolding from her mother, Alba Mery, who assured & oacute; that that song was not from “Josesito” I knew.
“I didn’t see José; nowhere”, he assured. the woman in the program “We caught her the night” of Cosmovisión.
Also, even the vice president of Colombia, Marta Lucía Ramírez, assured, in a statement, that, beyond of the video that denigrates women, “the lyrics of the song have direct and open sexist, racist, sexist and misogynistic expressions that violate the rights of women, comparing them to an animal that must be dominated and mistreat, with expressions that are not worth repeating.”
“That is not part of what I have always expressed, mine has always been tolerance, love and integration”, he said Balvin about it, who recalled that last week withdrew the video clip.
And to her mother he said: & quot; Mother, excuse me, my idea is to continue being better every day & quot;.