Ni Rosas Ni Juguetes
Encyclopedia
"" is a song performed by Latin pop
singer Paulina Rubio
. The song was recorded for her ninth studio album
Gran City Pop
, and was released as the second single. Ni Rosas Ni Juguetes was produced by Cachorro López
and written by Claudia Brant, Noel Schajris
and Gianmarco Zignago
. It was announced as the second single on July 20, 2009. It was released on radios August 17, 2009.
, Mexico
and Puerto Rico
and it was released on November 17, 2009. It was also recorded as remix with rapper Pitbull
called "Ni Rosas Ni Juguetes (Mr. 305 Remix)" and was released on November 10, 2009 via iTunes
.
Paulina appeared at Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2009
on October 15 along with Cobra Starship
performing Good Girls Go Bad and Ni Rosas Ni Juguetes. Rubio and Cobra Starship won an MTV Award for "Best Performance", as voted by the public, beating artist such as Shakira
, Nelly Furtado
, Ashley Tisdale
, and Wisin & Yandel
. On November 1, Paulina performed Ni Rosas Ni Juguetes on ¡Viva el Sueño!
, a reality competition show similar to American Idol
. Rubio also performed the single at the 2009 Premios OYE! in Guanajuato, Mexico. Paulina performed a "western" version of "Ni Rosas Ni Juguetes" at "Premios Lo Nuestro" on February 18, 2010.
"Perhaps the most surprising track on the disc, though, and one of its definite high points, is the hip-hop/ranchero fusion "Ni Rosas Ni Juguetes," which sounds like it could have been produced by Camilo Lara of Mexican Institute of Sound. Over a thunderous boom-bap beat, Rubio half-raps, half-sings about how flowers and toys won't earn her love; it's exactly the kind of culture-blending, boundary-dissolving sound that encapsulates modern Latin pop, and it's brilliant".
and 50 Cent
. The video premiered on October 8 and it shows a similar story to the 2005 film Mr & Mrs. Smith
.
A second video has been shot for an urban remix version of Ni Rosas Ni Juguetes featuring Pitbull. It premiered on December 10. The video was directed by Jessy Terrero
.
It debuted at number 37 on the Spanish Singles Chart and thus far peaked at number 3, becoming her first top five hit from Gran City Pop in Spain. The song has been certified Platinum for sales of 40,000 in Spain alone. The single became a huge hit in Spain, charting for more than 40 weeks, it also performed well on Latin American charts
Latin pop
Latin pop generally refers to pop music that has what may be perceived a Latin American influence...
singer Paulina Rubio
Paulina Rubio
Paulina Susana Rubio Rue is a Mexican singer and actress. Rubio achieved international stardom with her fifth studio album, Paulina...
. The song was recorded for her ninth studio album
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
Gran City Pop
Gran City Pop
Gran City Pop is the ninth studio album by Mexican singer Paulina Rubio released by Universal Music Group on June 23, 2009 . The album's first single "Causa y Efecto" became Rubio's first number one single on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs since Ni Una Sola Palabra in 2006...
, and was released as the second single. Ni Rosas Ni Juguetes was produced by Cachorro López
Cachorro López
Gerardo López , known professionally as Cachorro López, is an Argentine record producer, musician and songwriter. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he enrolled in various musical ensembles, including Zas and Los Abuelos de la Nada...
and written by Claudia Brant, Noel Schajris
Noel Schajris
Nahuel Schajris Rodríguez is a naturalized Mexican singer-songwriter and pianist based in Mexico who experienced chart-topping success as part of the duo Sin Bandera until he and fellow singer-songwriter Leonel García concluded their partnership in 2007...
and Gianmarco Zignago
Gianmarco Zignago
Gian Marco Javier Zignago Alcóver is a singer-songwriter. He has won the Grammy Latino 2005 for the best 'álbum Cantautor' and also the Grammy Latino Awards of 2011 for the best Singer-Songwriter Album "Días Nuevos"...
. It was announced as the second single on July 20, 2009. It was released on radios August 17, 2009.
Promotion
Paulina Rubio re-recorded "Ni Rosas Ni Juguetes" as a duet with the singer Jenni Rivera on a version in Banda, for promotion of the single in the Regional Mexican radio stations in the United StatesUnited States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
and Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
and it was released on November 17, 2009. It was also recorded as remix with rapper Pitbull
Pitbull (rapper)
Armando Christian Pérez , better known by his stage name Pitbull, is an American rapper, singer-songwriter and record producer. His first recorded performance was from the Lil Jon album Kings of Crunk in 2002, after which he released his debut album in 2004 titled M.I.A.M.I. under TVT Records...
called "Ni Rosas Ni Juguetes (Mr. 305 Remix)" and was released on November 10, 2009 via iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
.
Paulina appeared at Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2009
Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2009
The eighth annual Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2009 took place on October 15, 2009 in Bogotá, Colombia at Corferias, at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, United States, Mexico City, Mexico and Buenos Aires, Argentina....
on October 15 along with Cobra Starship
Cobra Starship
Cobra Starship is an American synthpop band created by former Midtown bassist and lead vocalist Gabe Saporta in 2003 in New York City, New York...
performing Good Girls Go Bad and Ni Rosas Ni Juguetes. Rubio and Cobra Starship won an MTV Award for "Best Performance", as voted by the public, beating artist such as Shakira
Shakira
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s...
, Nelly Furtado
Nelly Furtado
Nelly Kim Furtado is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. Furtado grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.Furtado first gained fame with her debut album, Whoa, Nelly!, and its single "I'm Like a Bird", which won a 2001 Juno Award for Single of the Year and a 2002 Grammy...
, Ashley Tisdale
Ashley Tisdale
Ashley Michelle Tisdale is an American actress and singer who rose to prominence portraying the candy-counter girl Maddie Fitzpatrick in Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and the female antagonist Sharpay Evans in the High School Musical film series...
, and Wisin & Yandel
Wisin & Yandel
Wisin & Yandel are a Puerto Rican reggaeton Duo, consisting of Juan Luis Morera Luna and Llandel Veguilla Malavé Salazar . They started their career in 1998 and have been together since, winning several awards during that time....
. On November 1, Paulina performed Ni Rosas Ni Juguetes on ¡Viva el Sueño!
¡Viva el Sueño!
¡Viva el Sueño! is a reality competition to find new solo musical talent. Many are those who dream of being big but very few who reach the success in the music world. ¡Viva el Sueño! will give that opportunity to one of the 14 participants who were chosen from hundreds of applicants...
, a reality competition show similar to American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
. Rubio also performed the single at the 2009 Premios OYE! in Guanajuato, Mexico. Paulina performed a "western" version of "Ni Rosas Ni Juguetes" at "Premios Lo Nuestro" on February 18, 2010.
Critical reception
Allmusic.com gave the song a positive review:"Perhaps the most surprising track on the disc, though, and one of its definite high points, is the hip-hop/ranchero fusion "Ni Rosas Ni Juguetes," which sounds like it could have been produced by Camilo Lara of Mexican Institute of Sound. Over a thunderous boom-bap beat, Rubio half-raps, half-sings about how flowers and toys won't earn her love; it's exactly the kind of culture-blending, boundary-dissolving sound that encapsulates modern Latin pop, and it's brilliant".
Music video
The music video was filmed in New York. It was directed by Jessy Terero who has previously worked with acts such as Wisin & YandelWisin & Yandel
Wisin & Yandel are a Puerto Rican reggaeton Duo, consisting of Juan Luis Morera Luna and Llandel Veguilla Malavé Salazar . They started their career in 1998 and have been together since, winning several awards during that time....
and 50 Cent
50 Cent
Curtis James Jackson III , better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is an American rapper, entrepreneur, investor, record producer, and actor. He rose to fame with the release of his albums Get Rich or Die Tryin and The Massacre . Get Rich or Die Tryin has been certified eight times platinum by...
. The video premiered on October 8 and it shows a similar story to the 2005 film Mr & Mrs. Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a 2005 American romantic comedy action film directed by Doug Liman and written by Simon Kinberg. The original music score was composed by John Powell...
.
A second video has been shot for an urban remix version of Ni Rosas Ni Juguetes featuring Pitbull. It premiered on December 10. The video was directed by Jessy Terrero
Jessy Terrero
Jessy Terrero is a Dominican film and music video director.-Life and career:Terrero began his filmmaking career working as an intern on the set of Darnell Martin's I Like It Like That. His acting credits include appearances in Law & Order, The Sopranos and In Search of a Dream...
.
Chart performance
Ni Rosas Ni Juguetes debuted at number 41 on the Hot Lating Songs and has so far peaked at number 9, becoming her second top ten hit from the album. On the Latin Pop Songs it peaked at number 5.It debuted at number 37 on the Spanish Singles Chart and thus far peaked at number 3, becoming her first top five hit from Gran City Pop in Spain. The song has been certified Platinum for sales of 40,000 in Spain alone. The single became a huge hit in Spain, charting for more than 40 weeks, it also performed well on Latin American charts
Charts
| Chart (2009–2010) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Spain (PROMUSICAE PROMUSICAE Spanish Music Producers is a trade group representing the Spanish recording industry... ) |
3 |
| U.S. Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Hot Latin Songs |
9 |
| U.S. Billboard Latin Pop Songs Latin Pop Airplay Latin Pop Airplay is a record chart published on Billboard magazine. It features Latin music information from pop music usually in Spanish. It was established by the magazine on October 8, 1994 with Mañana by Cristian Castro being the first song to reach number-one... |
5 |
| U.S. Billboard Tropical Songs Latin Tropical Airplay The Tropical Songs is a record chart published on Billboard magazine established in 1994 with the first number-one song to be published was "En Las Nubes" by Edgar Joel. It features Latin music information from tropical music such as salsa, merengue, bachata, cumbia, and vallenato... |
39 |
Sales and certifications
| Country | Certification | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | Platinum | 40,000 |
Release history
| Region | Date |
|---|---|
| United States |