Jamaicaโs Leno Banton released his Mr. Loverman EP in February with the intent to โset the sound of summer for the ladies.โ As we move closer to the season in question, heโs back with visuals for one of the EPโs best tracks, โPina Colada,โ starring himself, a female friend and their blender.
The clip, directed by Cesar Buelto and Paul โStammaโ Watson (who also produced the video for The New Coup) is a visualizer, not a full-on music video, and the action is centralized in Bantonโs kitchen. Pineapples are diced, rum is poured, buttons are pressed and sexual entendres abound before Leno and his companion, an actress dubbed only as Shelby, enjoy their concoction from a freshly-cut coconut. The visuals could double as one of those mixology tutorials you might find on YouTube. If you didnโt know what ingredients go into a pina colada, you will now.
โโThe song โPina Coladaโ was a testimony to a love interest, expressing how her love made me feel โ which was a fun, tropical, sweet and radiant energy,โ Leno says. โThe video captures the essence of that feeling, which depicts us bonding while creating a pina colada drink.โ
Leno Banton, you may be aware by now, is the son of Burro Banton, the iconic deejay whose rough and tough, barrel-voiced delivery helped set the tone for dancehall as it evolved from the โ80s into the โ90s, inspiring artists like Shabba Ranks and Buju Banton.
Smooth and melodic, Leno takes a softer approach to vocals than his legendary father. But like Burro, (whose early โ90s version of โBoomwadisโ marked a key moment in the fusion of dancehall and hip-hop) his voice sounds just as comfortable floating outside Jamaicaโs borders. The Malachi-produced โPina Coladaโ straddles dancehall and the more nebulous realm of island pop, employing steel drum sounds to create a pan-tropical feel that should make this one playable wherever beaches and pools can be found this summer.
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