“If you want to feel good about yourself, want to party and just want to have a good time, put Pitbull on and he’ll make you feel like that right away,” she says of Mr Worldwide’s mystifyingly enduring appeal.
That’s the reality for Pitbull, aka Mr Worldwide, aka Mr 305, aka (as in, actually born as) Armando Christian Pérez, who returns to the UK stage for the first time in almost a decade this week.
Despite having an air of Mr Motivator about them, his 2014 “Time of Our Lives” lyrics: “This for everybody going through tough times / Believe me, been there, done that / But every day above ground is a great day, remember that,” have become a mantra for modern women battling every inconvenience of life – from acne to bad dates.
“Pitbull was on [the speakers] everywhere.” Cut to 2025 and Jessica, who works in a hospital as a radiographer by day, is heading to The O2 in a bald cap and tuxedo alongside the same friends she partied with in Greece 14 years ago.
“You can’t be sad when you’re listening to Pitbull… that’s just a fact,” says 29-year-old Esther from London, who started listening to Mr Worldwide during her year abroad in Sweden in 2017 and paid £100 for a standing ticket at The O2 this Friday.
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