Perfecta (Miranda! And Julieta Venegas Song)
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"Perfecta" is a song by Argentine band
Miranda! Miranda! is an Argentine electropop band formed in 2001. Original band members include Alejandro Sergi (vocals), Juliana Gattas (vocals), Lolo Fuentes (guitar), Bruno de Vincenti (programming), and since 2003, Nicolás Grimaldi (bass). It is c ...
and Mexican singer-songwriter
Julieta Venegas Julieta Venegas Percevault (; born November 24, 1970) is an American-born Mexican singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and producer who sings pop-rock-indie in Spanish. She went on to join several bands including Mexican ska band Tijuana No!. Ven ...
. It was released on July 9, 2007, through Pelo Music as the second single from the band's third studio album, '' El Disco de Tu Corazón''. A special version without Venegas, with vocals from Miranda! singer Juliana Gattas, was released for the band's first compilation album, ''El Templo Del Pop'', on April 1, 2008. The song reached the top three in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico, and charted inside the top thirty in Chile and Peru.


Background

"Perfecta" is a reggae song with mixes of
electropop Electropop is a hybrid music genre combining elements of electronic and pop genres. Writer Hollin Jones has described it as a variant of synth-pop with heavy emphasis on its electronic sound. The genre was developed in the 1980s and saw a re ...
. Its lyrics were described as "catchy". A more "danceable and Latino" remix titled "Perfecta (Cumbow Remix)" was released months after the song's original release, which incorporated production by Mexican group
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.
Pablo Lescano Pablo Lescano (Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 8, 1977) is an Argentine singer, composer, keyboardist, and leader of ''Cumbia villera'' group Damas Gratis from 2000. He is considered by many as the founder of the Cumbia villera sub-genre. Bio ...
, a member of the cumbia group
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, provides additional keyboards on the song. The remix was included in the band's third live album titled ''El Disco de Tu Corazón - En Vivo'', released on June 5, 2007.


Charts


"Perfecta (Versión 2023)"

"Perfecta (Versión 2023)", also known as "Perfecta", is a song by Argentine band
Miranda! Miranda! is an Argentine electropop band formed in 2001. Original band members include Alejandro Sergi (vocals), Juliana Gattas (vocals), Lolo Fuentes (guitar), Bruno de Vincenti (programming), and since 2003, Nicolás Grimaldi (bass). It is c ...
in collaboration with Argentine singers-songwriters María Becerra and FMK. It was released on April 18, 2023, through Sony Music Argentina, as the sixth and final single from the band's first remix album '' Hotel Miranda!'', in which they remade old songs from albums such as '' El Disco de Tu Corazón'', with new productions and in collaboration with different singers, producers and writers. The track was fully produced by Big One, a frequent collaborator of Becerra who produced the majority of her debut studio album '' Animal''.


Music video

The music video of the song follows the "hotel" theme that all songs on the album have. In this one, the invited artists, Becerra and FMK, play two landscapers who work in the park of the fictitious hotel. It is inspired by
Alice in Wonderland ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (commonly ''Alice in Wonderland'') is an 1865 English novel by Lewis Carroll. It details the story of a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatur ...
, Becerra appears as the cat in the film, while Juliana Gattas plays the protagonist, with a blue dress and blonde hair.


Accolades


Commercial performance

The song debuted at number 45 on the ''Billboard'' Argentina Hot 100 in the tracking week of April 29, 2023. In its second week, it rose thirty-seven spots to number 8, being the highest-rising song of the week. A week later, it reached its peak at number 6. It is the band's song that has reached the highest on the chart since its creation in 2018, surpassing "Uno los Dos" with
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(2023), which peaked at number 15. "Perfecta" charted in five Latin American countries in addition to Argentina, these being Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, where it reached the top 20 on the Monitor Latino charts.


Charts


See also

* List of ''Billboard'' Argentina Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2023


References

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