Victor Manuelle Responds to Backlash About ‘Amarte Duro’ Chris Brown/Rihanna Lyric: ‘I Assume All Fault’

The track “Amarte Duro” by salsa star Victor Manuelle and Latin urban rapper Farruko is a hybrid salsa-urban celebration of love. But 3 minutes and 20 seconds in, everything changes.

The lyrics, “I’m going to give it hard to you the way Chris did to Rihanna,” have come into question by music fans throughout the U.S. and beyond, setting off a debate whether the song implies that men should assault women.

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Not so, says Manuelle, who took to his social media platforms on Monday evening (April 30) and posted a lengthy explanation about the lyrics in question, which are rapped by Farruko, whose posts via Instagram @farrukoofficial were deleted, leaving his 9.8 million followers with a blank profile after posting, then also deleting, the following message:

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“There are people who want to make firewood from the fallen tree, but this tree has such firm roots that it came back to bloom and it will bear more fruit!” In the name of the father of the son and the Holy Spirit Amen “(sic.), wrote the urban artist with a photo in a concert he had last weekend in Peru.”

“I must confess that in my 25-year career it’s the first time I’ve faced a situation like this,” Manuelle wrote in Spanish. “Those who know me know that I would be unable to promote or promote any act of violence, much less gender violence. My principles, my values and my education would not allow me to support such acts conscientiously,” he continued.

Victor Manuelle, who performed “Amarte Duro” with Farruko at the 2018 Billboard Latin Music Awards, is known as a salsa singer who constantly collaborates with urban acts, giving them enough thrust when in the studio working on their lyrics.

“Regarding the part that says ‘I’m going to hit you hard as Chris to Rihanna’ everyone should know that they were a couple who had an intense love relationship and was referring to the love lived before the incident between them. Seeing the negative reactions that several people have had, it has made me reconsider that the sentence carried a double meaning that I did not analyze probably because in my mind there was always only one way,” he added.

The video, which was released on March 15 and has more than 3.5 million views on YouTube, begins with an image of Manuel lying on a lawn, daydreaming before a long-haired woman appears at a different location. The rest of the video features mostly extras in the background as part of a party scene that goes in and out of frame between Manuel and Farruko crooning about romance.

Check out Manuelle’s post:

 

Reacción a controversia “Amarte duro” Debo confesar que en mis 25 años de carrera es la primera vez que enfrento una situación como esta. Aquellos que me conocen saben que sería incapaz de fomentar o promover cualquier acto de violencia, mucho menos el de violencia de género. Mis principios, mis valores y mi educación no me permitirían apoyar tales actos a conciencia. En cuánto a la controversia que ha generado la canción “Amarte duro” lo que a mi me atrajo de la letra era lo contradictorio a su título. Si escuchan la letra donde dice “es un amor violento, pero sin violencia, que no sabe de tiempo ni de inteligencia, que crece cuando no debe crecer y que quiere más de lo que debe tener. Es un amor brutal lleno de ternura que se vuelve eterno el tiempo que dura y que quita menos de lo que da”, o sea describiendo ese amor que pienso que toda persona se merece. Referente a la parte que dice “te voy a dar bien duro como Chris le daba a Rihanna” todo el mundo debe saber que ellos fueron una pareja que tuvo una relación amorosa intensa y se estaba haciendo referencia al amor vivido antes del incidente entre ellos. Al ver las reacciones negativas que han tenido varias personas, sí me ha hecho recapacitar de que la frase llevaba un doble sentido que no analicé probablemente porque en mi mente siempre hubo un solo sentido. A esas personas que entendieron la frase con mala intención quiero pedirle disculpas con la caballerosidad y el sentido de responsabilidad que me ha caracterizado. Somos humanos y todos nos equivocamos. Asumo toda culpa. Poniendo en práctica una frase que me enseñó mi héroe, mi papá: “Aunque en tu corazón sepas que no hiciste las cosas con ninguna mala intención, si sientes que alguien se ha ofendido, pídele perdón”. Víctor Manuelle

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