This is what Yasuri Yamileth looks like 17 years after starring in ‘La Gillette’: one of the first viral musical hits that many still remember

The internet is a medium that has seen the birth of various viral characters, songs or videos, which are still forgotten despite the times, such as Yasuri Yamileth.

And it is that many will be able to listen to that fictional character who became popular in 2006 for the music video “Gillete”: “My name is Yasuri, Yasuri Yamileth. If you mess with me, I’ll take you out Gillette. I leave you a ‘ye’, which is not from yeye, but from Yasuri, Yasuri Yamileth”.

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To the surprise of many, Marlene Morales, the girl we saw in the sequence, said that she uses the disco like Mercedes-Benz or that she is not a “yeyé” girl, just the image of the song, according to El Tiempo .

Actually, it was model, radio host and interior designer Katherine Severino who created the lyrics as a critique of the “yeyé” or wealthy people who boast about their socioeconomic status and speak in Spanish.

Yasuri is just a representation of the women of the Panamanian neighborhoods. Then it would be the friends of the model who, without her permission, made the musical arrangement and distributed it all over Latin America.

Why didn’t Katherine Severino play her own character?

According to La Nación, Katherine had a promising life as an extreme athlete, model and interior designer, so she did not want to participate in the music video so that it was not a definition of her person.

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In the end, it was Marlene Morales who became immortalized on the internet, taking almost all the credit for the 1:40 minute urban hit that made millions laugh, sing and dance to the popular reggaeton rhythms of the time.