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Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Fuerza Regida Want to Become the Beatles of Corridos. They Might Already Be
The cameras, iPhones, assistants, and Mountain Valley Spring Water glass bottles orbit him like he's Neptune with its 16 moons. It feels like a red carpet gala arrival — but Fuerza Regida frontman Jesús Ortiz Paz is just getting to his newly built Street Mob Records offices near San Bernardino. 'What's up, brother?' JOP says, dressed in an Oakley sweatsuit and Chanel beanie — the same look he'll sport later while snapping sideline pics with Kendall Jenner at a soccer game. 'They said you had a question for me, no?' More from Rolling Stone Fuerza Regida Reacts to Making History on Billboard 200: 'We Manifested This' For the First Time, the Top Two Albums in the U.S. Are in Spanish Grupo Firme Level Up With Anticipated Album 'Evolucion' Yes, I'm about to ask him a few questions, and he's also about to preview the mysterious album he's been making for months, 111Xpantia. We weave through his new office building past his impressive car collection: several Rolls Royces, a 2021 Lamborghini SVJ, one of his first cars, a Chevy Camaro SS, and an old-school, Chevy 454 SS, because corrido pioneer 'Chalino [Sanchez] always used to rock these,' Mosca, the band's manager tells me, before JOP arrives. We head into a darkened part of the building, styled like the album — part listening room, part underground club, with a Legends of the Hidden Temple-esque backdrop. JOP refused to send 111Xpantia out to avoid leaks, so his team asked that I come in person to hear him play me a few of the songs. (He warns the room to put their phones away: 'If it gets leaked, va 'star cabrón,' he says before playing 'GodFather,' on which he imagines himself as Vito Corleone.) 'This album right here, is all about making your dreams come true, bro,' says JOP. 'The eye [in the artwork], it resembles manifestation. It resembles new beginnings. The 111 [angel numbers] in the name. The name Ixpantia comes from the Aztecs… It's all about manifesting.' (The word 'Ixpantia' comes from the Nahuatl language, which loosely translates to 'manifestar' in Spanish, 'to present something to others.') Manifesting was big for JOP when he started his career as a barber, and later a party-thrower, before becoming one of the leading faces of the música mexicana movement, headlining arenas across the Americas. Manifesting was also big for him when he spoke to Rolling Stone in 2023, when he shared his love for Lil Baby and later brought him on to co-headline a festival with Fuerza Regida. And now, he's manifesting for Mexican music to go global. 'We wrote [some of] the songs in Paris. This guy stayed back producing them,' he says, pointing to Moises Lopez, and referring to his trip for Fashion Week with KidSuper. 111xpantia is a sort of homecoming to a classic Fuerza Regida corrido style, while still elevating the group's sound. For the band's tenth album, JOP incorporated the banjo — an instrument never used in the corrido tumbado space — and synths that add a new layer to the tracks. He makes his voice extra raspy on some of the songs, too. 'This one, we tried to stick to the roots, but make that shit elevated,' says JOP. 'This is the question I always get, 'Where's the old Fuerza?' And we're not going to do that. That stayed in 2018, 2019. We're not going to go and redo that.' The closest JOP gets to 'old Fuerza' on the record is 'Marlboro Rojo,' which he says was produced using the same instrumentation — the tuba, charchetas, guitars — as the band used on fan-favorite, 'Sigo Chambeando,' from 2018. After 2023's Pa Las Baby's y Belikeada and the group's early 2024 EP Dolido Pero No Arrepentido landed the band a few chart-toppers, he decided to step completely out of the band's comfort zone, and experimented with electronic music on what he coined 'Jersey Corridos,' an experimental sound with 808s and synths over a typical corrido structure that didn't fully land. It was all part of the plan. 'We needed a little bit of a risk, like a novela. If everything's the same, it gets boring. So I wanted a little drama,' he says of Pero No Te Enamores, which featured Afrojack and Major Lazer. 'I wanted people just talking their like shit, 'Hey, what the fuck? We lost this guy.' I wanted that… I wanted the turbulence to hit so we could come back and do what we do.' The new songs hear him singing about living a thug life and a lot of hip-hop-prevalent lyrical themes: partying, love, sex, chicks, and drugs. On 'Ansiedad,' he sings to a girl about his struggles with love and balancing that with his life as an artist: 'You want to change me/This story will never end.' The song includes a subtle sample of a live version of Vicente Fernández's 'Acá Entre Nos.' On 'Tu Sancho,' he incorporates an Ellie Goulding sample that's easy to miss. 'In the hip-hop, reggaeton world, everybody uses samples, and in our genre, nobody does,' he says. 'This brings the extra little sauce on the album.' The album notably stays away from alluding to the cartel culture that he sometimes sang about in earlier records. It's an issue that many other Mexican artists have skipped altogether: Grupo Firme, Luis R. Conriquez, and Julión Álvarez have all skipped their previous narcocorridos during live shows. JOP avoids discussing politics, especially in the current climate. 'I'm showing the roots and showing our culture. It helps without us getting too involved,' he says. 'We are not political, man. We don't talk here about presidents, none of that. I just don't want to get involved in something que no me corresponde.' When asked about the visa issues affecting his peers (Los Alegres del Barranco had their visa revoked just days before the interview), he steers clear: 'I don't want to get involved in no way with those things. We've been working our name so hard, we don't want to,' he says. 'That's why we don't put that in our shows or nothing like that.' He does touch on the assumptions of Mexican music's connections to narco-culture on the new album, though. On 'Ayy Weyy,' he sings, 'The cops pulled up, it was in a white neighborhood/They keep fucking with us because the music's loud. They broke our door down looking for the damn laundering/But all they found were diamond and platinum disc plaques.' (The song's video, with clips of a SWAT team going through his house, dropped Tuesday.) JOP would rather keep the conversation focused on the new music and how he sees the Mexican movement continuing to grow. He'll be the first to say his group is 'competing with nobody' else, since most Mexican acts are solo artists, but he's manifesting being spoken about in the same sentences as other major stars in the American market. 'Now, we're competing against Coldplay, those bands that are up there… Of course, we still need a lot to do and sell out in Brazil like Coldplay does,' says JOP. 'That's our whole goal, and that's our point. To manifest being on Anglo television, to manifest being on Anglo charts, and that's where we think we're heading with this album… We want to be the ones, the rock stars, the crazy ones — the Beatles of this genre.' Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Los Angeles Times
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Bad Bunny, Fuerza Regida make Latin music history on the Billboard 200
Latin music reigns supreme in los Estados Unidos. Bad Bunny and Fuerza Regida just made history for Spanish-language music. As of this week, the Puerto Rican artist's 'Debí Tirar Más Fotos' and the San Bernardino group's '111XPANTIA' became the first-ever Spanish-language albums to simultaneously sit at Nos. 1 and 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart. Fuerza Regida's album, which dropped May 2, debuted in the No. 2 spot on the chart. According to Billboard, it became the highest-charting música regional album and Spanish-language album by a group or duo. Bad Bunny's wide-spanning love letter to his beloved Puerto Rico — 'Debí Tirar Más Fotos' — regained the top spot in the charts after he released a vinyl edition of the album. It was previously sitting in the seventh position on the Billboard 200 and has lingered in the top 10 since it debuted on Jan. 5. Bad Bunny announced a 23-date stadium tour in support of the album that will kick off Nov. 21 in the Dominican Republic, followed by shows in Costa Rica, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Chile and Argentina. There are currently no U.S. dates scheduled for the tour. '111XPANTIA,' Fuerza Regida's ninth studio album, released under Rancho Humilde and Street Mob Records, marks the group's return to its original corrido style, in contrast to its last album, 2024's 'Pero No Te Enamores,' which explored more electronically-geared genres like Jersey club, drill and house music. The album title itself, '111XPANTIA,' is made up of two parts: the first is a palindrome, '111,' which some call an 'angel number,' or a sign of luck; the second part stems from the Nahuatl word for manifestation, 'ixpantia.' 'The meaning of this album is to manifest an idea, to think your dreams into reality and to prove something through the power of the mind and the concept of the law of attraction,' said Fuerza Regida frontman Jesús Ortiz Paz, a.k.a. JOP, in a press release.
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Bad Bunny and Fuerza Regida Make Chart History as Spanish-Language Albums Claim Top Spots
For the first time in the nearly 70-year history of Billboard's albums chart, a pair of Spanish-language albums — Bad Bunny's ode to Puerto Rico, 'Debí Tirar Más Fotos,' and Mexican-American band Fuerza Regida's '111xpantia' — lead the charge. 'Debí Tirar Más Fotos' is the No. 1 album in the United States, climbing up from its previous No. 7 position following its first release on vinyl. It's the fourth total week at No. 1 for the album, which spent three consecutive weeks at the peak starting Jan. 25. The 17-song set returns with a total of 84,500 equivalent album units, with more than half of that total deriving from vinyl purchases, according to Luminate. More from Variety Ghost Becomes First Hard Rock Band to Top Albums Chart in Four Years Bad Bunny Sets International Stadium Tour With Concerts in Japan, Brazil and More SZA Tops Albums and Songs Charts as 'SOS' Leaps Back to No. 1 Making Latin music history, and achieving the highest-charting set of its career, Fuerza Regida debuts at No. 2 with '111xpantia.' The album was originally released with 12 songs and was expanded to 15 with a deluxe edition that was released three days after its May 2 debut. It earned a total of 76,000 units with 39,000 album sales and 50 million streams. With 39,000 copies sold, '111' surpasses the previous largest sales week for a regional Mexican album, when Selena's 'Amor Prohibido' sold 36,000 copies in 1995. It's also the highest-charting Spanish-language album by a duo or group, and the highest-charting regional Mexican music album ( Peso Pluma's 'Génesis' held the title since 2023), as reported by Billboard. Prior to '111,' the band — led by Jesús Ortiz Paz (JOP) with José 'Pelón' García, Moisés López, Khrystian Ramos and Samuel Jáimez — scored its biggest debut on the Billboard 200 in 2023 with the release of 'Pa Las Baby's y Belikeada.' The second debut in the Top 10 of the list this week comes from rapper Key Glock and 'Glockaveli,' which debuts at No. 8 with 34,000 units. The 18-song set was also expanded with a deluxe edition featuring an additional three tracks. As for the remaining top titles: SZA's 'SOS' moves to No. 3 from No. 2; Morgan Wallen's 'One Thing at a Time' is at No. 4; Kendrick Lamar's 'GNX' is at No. 5; Sabrina Carpenter's 'Short n' Sweet' is at No. 6; PartyNextDoor and Drake's '$ome $exy $ongs 4 U' is at No. 7; and Wallen logs his second simultaneous Top 10 album with 'Dangerous: The Double Album' at No. 9. Meanwhile, Shaboozey's 'Where I've Been, Isn't Where I'm Going' rounds out the pinnacle at No. 10. Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week Emmy Predictions: Talk/Scripted Variety Series - The Variety Categories Are Still a Mess; Netflix, Dropout, and 'Hot Ones' Stir Up Buzz Oscars Predictions 2026: 'Sinners' Becomes Early Contender Ahead of Cannes Film Festival
Los Angeles Times
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Fuerza Regida beholds the power of manifestation in new album ‘111XPANTIA'
The members of Fuerza Regida say they manifested their dreams of becoming the hardest-working act in música mexicana. Now, a decade into their career, the multiplatinum corrido stars are marking the milestone with the release of their most spiritually minded album yet, '111XPANTIA.' Recorded in the band's hometown of San Bernardino, the 12-track LP — condensed from a total of 40 written songs — dives further into the quintet's Mexican heritage, encapsulating the group's hustle, vision and evolution over the course of its long career. 'We put a lot of thought into it, a lot of hours in the studio,' says Jesús Ortiz Paz, a.k.a. JOP, frontman of Fuerza Regida. 'Can't wait to hear what the fans think, there's something for everyone.' The band's ninth studio album, released under Rancho Humilde and Street Mob, marks Fuerza Regida's return to its original corrido style, in contrast to its last album, 2024's 'Pero No Te Enamores,' which explored more electronically geared genres like Jersey club, drill and house music. 'The meaning of this album is to manifest an idea, to think your dreams into reality and to prove something through the power of the mind and the concept of the law of attraction,' said JOP in the press release. The album title itself, '111XPANTIA,' is made up of two parts: the first is a palindrome, '111,' which some regard as an 'angel number,' or a lucky sign; the second is the Nahuatl word for manifestation, 'ixpantia.' The musicians of Fuerza Regida, who got their start in the business by playing cover songs at local parties in San Bernardino, know a thing or two about the law of attraction. After years spent covering legacy acts like Bobby Pulido and Los Humildes, Fuerza Regida's 2018 hit single, 'Radicamos en South Central,' fueled its momentum in the Latin music industry. In the last three years, four of the group's albums have graced the Billboard 200 chart. Although Fuerza Regida is known for its flashy public performances, the band has taken a low-key approach to the rollout of its latest LP, with the exception of the lead single, 'Por Esos Ojos.' The love ballad, which JOP sings a capella, was first performed at Paris Fashion Week earlier this year during KidSuper's runway show. The song later peaked at No. 79 on the Billboard 100. There were, however, some surprise lead-ups to the release of '111XPANTIA,' including a skywritten message over the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and Easter egg hunts across select California malls. Bandleader JOP also went undercover, dressed as an elderly man, to try and sell the new CD for $1 at gas stations in Southern California. To further celebrate the album's release, Fuerza Regida will host a special pop-up at the Complex LA storefront (433 N. Fairfax Ave.) from May 2 to 4, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. It's the first Latin band to work with the popular streetwear and media enterprise. '111XPANTIA' is available on all streaming platforms, CD and vinyl.
