MTO²: New Generation, arrived in 2012 and was another number one Latin hit. MTO² won Best Urban Music Album at the 2012 Latin Grammy Awards. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart, it also won 2 Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Music Album at the 13th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, and was nominated for the same award at the Premios Lo Nuestro Awards. It won 10 Billboard Latin Music Award for Latin Rhythm Album of the Year in 2013 and was nominated again in 2014 and sold over 4 millión of copies. On MTO²: New Generation, the former king of reggaeton sounds more "former" than ever before, not because of the quality of the music but because of the wide variety of genres explored on this diverse set.
Of course, this is the second entry in Omar's Meet the Orphans series, so plenty of guests help to broaden the horizons, but Don has been versatile before any new blood showed up, offering a carnival anthem during the opening with "Hasta Que Salga El Sol", which won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Song, just before going full Latin pop on "Zumba," the pleasant theme song for the dancing exercise of the same name.
The biggest surprise might be "FML" (with rapper MIMS), which channels the spirits of Lords of Acid, Nortec, and LMFAO. And let's not forget about another pleasant surprise that came from Dutty Love featuring Natti Natasha, if we did not know who Natti Natasha was, we knew straight after the release of this song. The exposure she received as a result of its video was unprecedented.
Maybe it's the influence of the Moombahton genre, but reggaeton gets its BPMs slowed for the more traditional highlight "Asi Es Que Es," which features strict rapper Syko in one of his many MTO² appearances. Ella No Sigue Modas (with Juan Magan) A catchy tune which mixes urban and electro beats that would get you hooked from the beggining to the end.
This album is not a pure reggaeton album, some might consider this as Don Omar going off the rails, but you can't blame him for thinking on a global, at least not when he succeed in doing it so well and sounds so entirely inspired while doing it.
