Nowadays, reggaeton has largely seduced the mainstream and broken down language barriers, a phenomenon Nina, who sings in Spanish, welcomes enthusiastically. As with other sounds born on the margins of society, popular dismissal of reggaeton often revealed deeply classist and racist bias based on the genreâs association with Latin American migrant communities and the working class. The genreâs commercial breakthrough also instigated a wave of moral panic among cultural elites who, outraged by the sexually explicit lyrics and accompanying dance form known as perreo, equated reggaeton with cultural trash. Reggaeton, a sound that originated and circulated illegally in Puerto Ricoâs housing projects in the mid-90s, had by then spread across Latin America, the United States, and Spain. She was around 13 at the time that same year, her family moved from their home of CĂłrdoba, where the Sierra mountains meet the green plains of the Pampas, in Argentina, to Motril, a small town on the Spanish southern coastline. It was also the first reggaeton tune that Jorgeline Torres, also known as Ms Nina, listened to. Released in 2004, âGasolinaâ was a worldwide hit that brought reggaeton into the mainstream. The excitement is enhanced by the lyrics, whose manifold interpretations enthrall listeners to this day: âGasolinaâ literally means âgasâ, but also âstreetsâ, âpartyâ, âcocaineâ, and âsemenâ, by various accounts, though in Daddy Yankeeâs words, the chorus just refers to âa girl who likes to have funâ. Of all the club bangers of the 2000s, Daddy Yankeeâs â Gasolinaâ seems uniquely able to send people into a frenzy.