How Maluma and The Weeknd Recorded & Released ‘Hawai’ in Three Weeks

At noon Thursday (Nov. 5), Maluma and The Weeknd dropped a surprise new bilingual version of “Hawái,” featuring the latter singing the opening verses in English and the chorus in Spanish. In other words, this wasn’t a last-minute, let’s-slap-this-together remix, but a let-me-write-a-new-verse-and-work-on-my-Spanish collaboration.
Still, recording of the song, filming the video and releasing it Thursday jointly between Sony Music Latin and RCA took only a month&rsqu