NO, NO, NO. You were too late,” says Sebastián Yatra, lifting his phone again and turning it to selfie mode. “One more time.”
It’s nearly midnight at a half-empty restaurant in Miami’s hip design district, and Yatra has roped me into what he calls “Instagram therapy”: lip-syncing on camera to his track “Melancólicos Anónimos,” with me playing the prissy-voiced therapist to Yatra’s lovelorn Romeo.
And while we may technically be filming for the 27-year-old Colombian pop star’s 29 million Instagram followers, there’s another rapt audience here — namely, the young Venezuelan mothers and their well-manicured husbands at the table next to us, not-so-surreptitiously looking on. So I focus on delivering my lines on the beat and, this time, nail it.
“Yes!” Yatra exclaims, uploading the video to both his…