Popjustice
  • Home
    • Briefing archive
  • Features
  • Playlists
  • Get Popjustice emails
  • About Popjustice
    • About
    • Popjustice: Est 2000
    • The Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • Contact
    • General contact details
    • Submit music
  • Forum
Recent Posts
  • New Music Monday: Griff's Black Hole is super, and massive
  • New Music Friday: Let's kick off 2021 with some KLF
  • The Top 45 Singles Of 2020
  • New Music Friday: Mae Muller doesn't want to be dependent
  • New Music Friday: There's a big one from Royal & The Serpent
Hello! In theory you should only be seeing this if you're using a mobile or tablet. How's the site looking? If anything's wonky click here and tell us so we can fix it. Thanks! x
Popjustice
  • Briefing
  • Features
  • Playlists
    • New Music Friday: The Popjustice Edit
    • Big Hit Energy
    • 21st Century Pop
    • 2018% Solid Pop Music
    • Full archive
  • About
    • About Popjustice
    • Contacting Popjustice
    • Send music
    • Popjustice: Est 2000
    • The Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • Forum
  • The Briefing

Pitbull's cover of Toto's Africa is everything you want and far, far less

  • December 13, 2018
  • Popjustice

Pitbull's got a shit­maz­ing song on the new Aquaman soundtrack. It's called Ocean To Ocean — a title that does nothing to hint at the delights that lie within. In short: it's Toto's Africa. 

The song is, you might argue, an impress­ive feat: there's barely any intro, then it's just verse / chorus / verse / chorus / verse / chorus-chorus / THE END. No prechorus, no post­chorus, no middle eight, no outro, all done in less than two and a half minutes with a Banksy reference thrown in along the way.

It sounds a bit like you'd imagine being tasered might feel. 

Notes Pitbull (via EW.com):

“The ocean, the sea and any body of water, to me, is true freedom. The ocean has always been the border from where my parents came from Cuba and the United States, which gives us freedom. That’s why I respect water. Bottom line: water gives us freedom.”

Outstanding scenes. (Pitbull actually covered the point about his parents with a little more panache in 2017's Freedom.)

The best bit of all this is that the song's arrived at least one year too late to really ride Africa's meme-fuelled re-entry into the zeitgeist — so late in fact that it feels entirely coin­cid­ental, as if Pitbull exists in his own cultural ecosystem.

  • Jesus fucking Christ
  • pitbull
  • Respect water
Previous Article
  • The Briefing

£60 for one song twice, all over by 9:15: the perfect night out

  • December 11, 2018
  • Popjustice
Have a read
Next Article
  • The Briefing

The Zayn album, for those in a hurry

  • December 16, 2018
  • Popjustice
Have a read
Further listening
Greatest hits
  • 100 Questions with Sky Ferreira
  • Britney Spears interview: "You learn from everything that happens, good or bad"
  • Halsey interview: "I don't believe people who say they're themselves all the time"
Further reading
  • 1
    New Music Monday: Griff's Black Hole is super, and massive
  • 2
    New Music Friday: Let's kick off 2021 with some KLF
  • 3
    The Top 45 Singles Of 2020
  • 4
    New Music Friday: Mae Muller doesn't want to be dependent
  • 5
    New Music Friday: There's a big one from Royal & The Serpent
  • 6
    New Music Friday: Baby Queen takes the throne
Est 2000. Still going.
Socials

 Spotify
 Facebook
 Twitter
 Instagram
 Soundcloud

'Quick links'

About Popjustice
Contact Popjustice
Sign up for the news­let­ter
Submit music
Est 2000
Twenty Quid Music Prize

Playlists

21st Century Pop
New Music Friday: The Popjustice Edit
2018% Solid Pop Music
The Sound Of Popjustice
Playlist archive

© 2020 Popjustice Ltd. Scrolled to the bottom now you're here
  • Privacy, Ts & Cs, cookies etc
  • Corrections

Input your search keywords and press Enter.