Spanish-performing singers like Nathy Peluso and Rosalia are celebrated for attempting to embody a Black aesthetic and sound while Black women, such as Yailin, are penalized for that same bravado and look. #BlackLivesMatter.” Moreover, throughout her career, the singer has blatantly copied Black women’s aesthetics, wearing durags and African appropriative braids, and attempted a Caribbean persona, donning a caribeña accent and misusing colloquial terms. In the summer of 2020, at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests against racialized police violence, Karol G tweeted a photo of her dog with black and white spots along with the caption, “The perfect example that black and white together look beautiful. For her part, Karol G has a track record of side-stepping accountability as a white woman with power and privilege in the music industry. Not long after, Anuel set the record straight, saying on TikTok that he was the one who made the first move on Yailin, not the other way around. During a January concert, Karol revealed to her audience that her man was “ stolen from her,” which left fans around the globe to conclude that Yailin is a homewrecker. While Karol G hasn’t directly said anything about Yailin, her white tears have fortified her fans to bully the Dominican singer. It’s true that millions of more eyes will be waiting to see what she will do next due to her new relationship, but her talent and platform were built on her own. Yailin’s most viral single, “ Quien Me Atraca A Mi,” has garnered more than 11 million views.
Here were three young women taking up space in a male-dominated genre and people were loving it. For instance, when Yailin, Tokischa, and La Perversa came out with their dembow hit, “ Yo No Me Voy Acostar,” in 2020, there seemed to be a change in the conversation about the genre on the island.
Yailin has long built a following on the island for her dembow music and collaborations with some of the top rappers from the Dominican Republic. But just because the rest of Latin America only heard of Yailin because of her headline-making rumored engagement to the reggaetón rapper doesn't mean she isn't a talented artist deserving of the spotlight.
Some commentators have also accused Yailin of being a gold-digger, an opportunist who is using Anuel, an established artist in one of the biggest genres of our generation, to gain fame and a gold chain. However, most of the language used to criticize Yailin have long been used against Black women globally, words like “ghetto,” “dirty,” “ugly,” “perra,” “sapo,” and “gorilla,” among many more dehumanizing insults. One of the memes shows a rat showering as a way to symbolize their perception of Yailin as a “hoodrat” who doesn't deserve to be showered with love and luxury. Others have created memes that poke fun at her for growing up in a low-income barrio.
Several commenters, for instance, have demanded Yailin to take off her wig so they can see her afro. Some comments reveal users’ inherent texturism, a preference for hair with straighter or looser texture. Although Yailin is a light-skinned Black woman from the island who has had much privilege due to her complexion, thinness, and phenotype, there is an obvious misogynoir that she is experiencing given the current hate-filled comments circulating online around her new relationship with Anuel. It looks at how both sexism and anti-Blackness shape the treatment and ideas people develop about Black women. Coined by queer Black feminist Moya Bailey, misogynoir describes the dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against Black women.
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