{"id":70177,"date":"2021-07-05T10:56:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T09:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=70177"},"modified":"2021-07-05T11:06:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T10:06:46","slug":"omar-veluz-do-you-really-wanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2021\/07\/omar-veluz-do-you-really-wanna\/","title":{"rendered":"Omar Veluz &#8211; &#8216;Do You Really Wanna&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Los Angeles native Omar Veluz is a recording artist, professional dancer, and designer, a triple threat who&#8217;s always up for a challenge, including turning around his genre and style completely when darkness and aggression is called for. His latest single, &#8216;Do You Really Wanna&#8217;, was created specifically for the horror feature film, &#8216;Scare Us&#8217;, and as a result, Veluz&#8217;s horizons opened, and he was able to experiment with a genre he never thought he&#8217;d have the opportunity to explore.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Veluz&#8217;s upbeat personality shows in his dance music, and his energetic Spanish ballads; so when he was approached to create a song which is effectively a complete 360 to his usual style, it was a challenge, but one he felt up to. &#8216;Do You Really Wanna&#8217; is filled with all the suspense and drama from the &#8216;Scare Us&#8217; film, as well as the horror movie language common to that particular genre. While the song is hair-raising and nerve-wracking, playing with our senses, making us question our surroundings, the video for &#8216;Do You Really Wanna&#8217; takes us that next step further. The video is set in the lair of a murderer who is plotting for his next victim; surrounded by skulls and questionable emblems, viewers get to see a small percentage inside a serial killer&#8217;s mind. Veluz pulses and convulses in the sight of the killer, but when unmasked, it&#8217;s revealed that he himself is the face behind the disguise. Veluz asks, &#8220;Will you face what&#8217;s in the mirror staring back at you?&#8221; We are left with a cliffhanger and the unanswerable question: what&#8217;s scarier, yourself as the victim or yourself as the terror?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Allow yourself to be spooked by the video for &#8216;Do You Really Wanna&#8217; below, and check out Omar Veluz&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omarveluzmusic.com\">official website<\/a> to find out more about this incredible artist.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_20953\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_f-E23SvR-w?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/essentiallypop.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"Omar Veluz - Do You Really Wanna feat. 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His latest single, &#8216;Do You Really Wanna&#8217;, was created specifically for the horror feature film, &#8216;Scare Us&#8217;, and as a result, Veluz&#8217;s horizons opened, and he was able to experiment with a genre he never thought he&#8217;d have the opportunity to explore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":70187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,9,21453,21445,21446,21449,640],"tags":[27646,11720,77,370,1945,27645,116,10677,22992],"class_list":["post-70177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-new-singles","category-reviews","category-single-reviews","category-video-reviews","category-videos","tag-do-you-really-wanna","tag-lisa-hafey","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-new-video","tag-omar-veluz","tag-review","tag-single-review","tag-video-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-ifT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":92206,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2025\/09\/rodney-bandz-shakes-up-the-hip-hop-scene-collaborating-with-stu-money-x-big-will-on-she-wanna-go-viral\/","url_meta":{"origin":70177,"position":0},"title":"Rodney Bandz Shakes Up The Hip Hop Scene Collaborating With Stu Money x Big Will On &#8216;She Wanna Go Viral&#8217;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"08\/09\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Rodney Bandz has dreamed of being a rapper since he was in the 6th grade, and now, he's making that dream a reality. 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