Beyoncé always believed in ‘Get Me Bodied’. The R&B and bounce song followed ‘Déjà Vu’ in the sequence of ‘B’Day’ (2006), that is, it was track 2. It was released as the album’s fifth single and in 2011 he recovered it for a campaign against obesity. Of that new version, ‘Move Your Body’, there are versions in English and Spanish.
‘Get Me Bodied’ is not the big news of the reissue of ‘B’Day’, since that title must be assigned to the single ‘Morning Dew’, actually an outtake from 2013. It is, however, the most revisited song, since it appears in up to five versions, all of them old except for the remix with Maluma.
‘Cuerpo (Tumbao)’ adapts ‘Mueve el cuerpo’ with a sample of ‘La Negra Quiero tumbao’ by Celia Cruz and the Colombian’s voices. Maluma has proudly shared his collaboration on networks, but when you listen to it the feeling is WTF.
Changes of rhythm are totally justified in current pop. The problem is the constant feeling of an out-of-the-box mash-up: Beyoncé’s voices, which after all were integrated into an R&B song, go on one side; Celia Cruz on the other, Maluma tries to make himself heard in the midst of the sound bustle and, in the end, the song suddenly changes to dembow, as if that wasn’t crazy enough.
In just over three minutes, a lot of things happen in the song, although it is not clear that they are all completely put together. Curiously, Beyoncé’s Spanish is quite decent, although not so intelligible at specific moments. Her “Spanish is not good looking” at the end is a funny reference to Celia Cruz herself, but, as a tribute, we would say that this is totally “all over the place”: it makes you want to move your body, yes, but only to run away.
