Latto and Christina Aguilera have dropped a surprising new song and accompanying video that seems to “eat” the competition.
The music powerhouses unleashed the project on the world on Thursday (October 12), which sees them walking down a lavish stairway wearing red Victorian-style dresses while on their descent.
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“Oh you thought it was just burgers and fries/ They got more flavors than you tasted or you heard in your life,” raps Latto. “Ooh — this is what the app do It ain’t only fast food/ Switching styles like opera to rap too/ Yummy/ And it ain’t only restaurants anymore/ We can go bananas at the grocery store.”
Check out the video below:
The pair’s new collaboration is for Just Eat, a DoorDash-style app based in the UK. As the song indicates, Just Eat offers both meal delivery service from restaurants and grocery shopping.
Latto and Christina Aguilera aren’t the first American superstars to collect a check from the company. Back in November 2020, Snoop Dogg was also tapped up to do a similar track, taking home a handsome $7million paycheck for doing so.
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The ladies first teased the song with an elusive exchange on Tuesday (October 10), revealing just enough information on Twitter to get fans excited – while also leaving many questions.
“Should we tell them? [eyes and mouth covered emojis] @xtina” Latto tweeted, after which Aguilera followed up with: “I think it’s time babe…”
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Latto has scored big in the collaboration department the last couple of years. In 2022, she nabbed the one and only Mariah Carey for a remix of the Atlanta rapper’s “Big Energy,” which samples Mariah’s ’90s classic “Fantasy” with the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard.
Over the summer, Latto became the first rapper to top the Billboard Hot 100 in 2023 thanks to her “Seven” collaboration with BTS star Jung Kook.
It marked the first No. 1 single for both Latto and Jung Kook, with the former’s previous best coming in April 2022 with the aforementioned “Big Energy,” which peaked at No. 3.
While “Big Energy” ushered in Latto’s mainstream success, apparently it was initially written for Cardi B.
Appearing as a guest on the See, The Thing Is… podcast earlier this year, songwriter and producer Theron Thomas talked about some of the artists he’s collaborated with and revealed a big secret about Latto’s chart-topper.
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“I wrote it for Cardi B,” he explained. “We went to Hawaii, I wrote it to that beat, and met Latto, and she was like, ‘Yeah man, you know, I want to do some crossover shit.’
“When I meet an artist and they tell me they want to do something, it’s like, okay cool. Cardi never got to hear it. We didn’t get it to her.”
Thomas also addressed whether he wrote Latto’s bars, admitting that while he drafted a “shell” of the song, she ended up making it what it is today. “Latto changed [the] verses, the words, [and] made it better. True story.”
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The song was featured on Latto’s 777 album, which was released in March 2022. It also scored the Atlanta rap star a Grammy nomination for Best Melodic Rap Performance at the 2023 Grammys, as well as a No.3 spot on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also topped the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, US Mainstream Top 40 chart, and US Rhythmic chart.
