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I joke around with Michelle all the time about Latinizing cheesy anglophone pop songs by turning them into cumbia tunes. You can imagine my surprise then, when a friend sent me a link to this YouTube video of Justin Bieber’s Baby already done in cumbia:

Seriously, I can’t stop laughing whenever I hear it!

As I listened to it for the first time a couple evenings ago, Michelle texted me from the other room, "What the heck are you listening to?!":

I eventually made my way over to the other room. She looked at me with a face of extreme disgust as if I had just taken a dump in my pants or something, while she asked me again "Seriously, what are you listening to?" to which I responded with a straight face, "…[he] wants to play this song, so I’m going to do the charts!", at which point her face turned from a look of disgust to a look of complete mortification!

When she realized I was only kidding, I was able to get her to come take a look at the video. And we quickly discovered, that wasn’t even the best part! Below the video were the "lyrics" – I’ve also pasted Justin Bieber’s original lyrics (truncated) so you can compare:

We read through the lyrics out loud with a Spanish accent and couldn’t stop laughing. "yu nou yu lof mi, ai nou yu lof jeer" And I guess it isn’t vaby in Spanish like I’ve been saying all these years, but beibi. Too much fun!

And if that wasn’t enough already, my friend then sent me another video of the song. This time, it was being performed (by the same artist) on Peruvian national TV:

Watching the people in the audience eating it up, singing along and having the time of their lives, I’ll admit it was a little sad, but mostly funny. But the best part of that video has to be the dancing and choreography… We laughed harder than we have in a very long time! Wow.