CAIRO — Colombian artist Karol G’s new music video titled "Cairo,” which she released Nov. 13 on her YouTube and Instagram accounts, sparked widespread controversy in Egypt. While some support the song, considering it a promotion of Egyptian tourism, others believe it overly features the slums in Cairo.

The video clip was filmed in several areas of Cairo, featuring many tourist and archaeological sites such as the Pyramids, the Sphinx, Citadel of Saladin, Sultan Hassan Mosque and the Nile Corniche. Officials and experts in the Egyptian tourism sector hope the song will create a tourism boom for the country in the coming months.

As of Nov. 22, the song had been viewed 21 million times on YouTube and topped the list of the most watched videos on YouTube. It also made it to the list of the most searched songs on Google.

Karol G told her more than 57.7 million followers in an Instagram post Nov. 13 that she was delighted to have filmed the song in Cairo: “Egypt is one of the top five places in the world that I dreamed of visiting. I had the ambition to see this country, to wander its streets and its monuments such as the Pyramids and the Sphinx.”