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Tonya X and Newcomer Jenny Huerta release RF Duet
"Dancefloor" is first RF hit in Egelian
Sulari, Suldanor
February 18, 4882


RF scenester Tonya X joins Jenny Huerta in creating an Egelian Electronic Banger on KMI

The Kalistani Musica Egelian movement continues to spread into pop and pop-adjacent genres across Kalistan.  It has now also arrived in the RF clubs which are booming across Kaliburg and Sulari with a recent duet between the veteran RF singer Tonya X and Jenny Huerta, who join together on Huerta's debut single from KMI called "Dancefloor".  The song, which is about coupling on the dancefloor is accompanied by a spicy video featuring X and Huerta in a shower wearing revealing bathing suits.  Parent groups are outraged by the video in Vrassa, as is predictable.  "Dancefloor" becomes the most significant move of Egelian Language music into the RF scene to date, and the single debuted at Number One in the Nation this week.

When asked about the controversy, Huerta said, "Si no lo disfruta, no lo vea."  Tonya X simply smiled and responded "yeah, that's what I'm saying too."  When pushed on the matter by Vrassan reporters, Huerta defended the work, "I mean, yeah, we were close in the video, but its not like we took our clothes off.  The song is innocent.  What do you people have against women showing some skin in videos?"  Loud protests from the assembled reporters ensued and the remainder of the interview was cancelled.

"Controversy is good for word of mouth," Tonya X told The Republic's reporter, with a shrug.  "We are making some ground breaking music here.  This song is totally bilingual, it's Kalistan.  Those morons should respect that, but either way, the madder they get about it, the more the kids want to hear the song."

The Musica Egelian movement is several years old now.  Jenny Huerta is one of a host of new artists who have begun putting out music in Egelian, and utilizing Pensio and Gaduri inspired rhythms as backing tracks.  "Dancefloor" is unique because it specifically adopts the themes and the aesthetic of RF, which is something Musica Egelian has thus far avoided, simply because the Egelian language music tends to stick more to pop and hiphop and avoids dance music or such nihilistic and the more sexualized  themes which are far more common in RF songs.

"I was really happy to have Tonya on this record," said Huerta.  "I was not sure whether the RF crowd was ready to hear this song, but this is her first Egelian song too, though she does her parts in Vrassan, slipping into Egelian here and there.  So we kind of give one another credibility among our own crowds."  The pairing has worked, and represents yet another significant step for both Musica Egelian and RF in the current Kalistani Music scene.

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxtIRArhVD4]