Karol G, a global pop star, said she wrote 60 songs, maybe more, for her new album, “Mañana Será Bonito”; he ended up choosing 17 of them.
The first, the Colombian recalled, were full of “anger, sadness, heartbreak, toxic relationships.” They reflected the wake of her breakup in 2021 with the Puerto Rican rapper and singer Anuel AA, after a romance that they had made public with a 2019 duet, “Secreto”, which has been streamed more than a billion times. times.
Karol G, 32, wrote about feeling betrayed, about temptations and doubts, about partying to forget the pain, about no-strings-attached sex with an ex. But over time, she found herself writing cautious love songs and showing gratitude. Just weeks before the album’s release last month, she wondered if she had been too candid.
“I am being very open with this album, and that scares me a bit, because I am not a perfect human being,” said Karol G, baptized Carolina Giraldo Navarro.
“The album is more Carolina than Karol G,” he added. “Personal things that I had inside of me, I was just letting go in my lyrics. People will know a lot about my personal life with my songs. But I don’t want to have the songs inside of me anymore, because I know that people can heal many things with music. Writing songs for me is a really good way to heal things that I can’t explain.”
“Mañana Será Bonito” is shaping up to be a huge success after Karol G’s 2021 album, “KG0516”. That album included “Tusa,” his 2019 collaboration with Nicki Minaj that has garnered billions of streaming views, and his self-mythologising 2020 “Bichota,” a word Karol G coined to translate “bichote”—a drug kingpin. droga, in Puerto Rican slang—a feminine noun for, as she puts it, a sexy and powerful woman.
His new term caught on. ”Bichota’ became a movement,” she said.
At the heart of Karol G’s music is the rhythm of reggaeton. But his songs replace the usual rapping of the genre with attractive pop melodies, sung in his clear and seductive voice. Instead of the machismo of reggaeton, she offers a joyous and openly sexually positive femininity.
With each album, Karol G has gone beyond reggaeton to collaborate with an international array of guests — a sign of the expanding and cross-border possibilities of Latin pop.
His 2017 debut album, “Unstoppable,” featured duets with Bad Bunny and Quavo (of Migos), and earned him a 2018 Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist. His popularity has only grown since then, fueled by lusty songs like “Mi Cama” and “Punto G”. In Latin America, he fills stadiums.
In “Mañana Será Bonito,” Karol G worked with Finneas (Billie Eilish’s brother and collaborator), Jamaican dancehall singer Sean Paul, New York-born bachata singer Romeo Santos, Dominican dembowsero Angel Dior and her forerunner as a superstar. Colombian, Shakira. He also welcomes an older reggaeton generation with “Gatúbela,” a daring duet with Maldy, a Puerto Rican rapper from the duo Plan B, who released his first album in 2002.
“Drawing on different styles of music, different genres is not hard for me, because I have music from everywhere that I really love,” said Karol G.
A song from her new album, “Gucci Los Paños,” furiously and profanely rejects an ex-boyfriend’s attempts to resume their relationship. “If we’re going to do a really heartbroken song that needs to sound really angry, in my opinion you have to use Mexican sounds,” she said.
Another of the album’s farewell songs is “TGQ”, the duet with Shakira —a long-awaited dumbbell for Karol G. Songs had been submitted over the years, but none seemed right. Now, with Shakira openly singing about her own breakup, Karol G thought they could share another song where she was “letting go of a lot of anger.” When Shakira heard her, Karol G said: “She was, ‘Oh my God, thank you. Those lyrics are perfectly how I feel right now.’” The song, a ballad with hints of reggaeton, exudes brotherhood.
The album does not offer a narrative. Framed by two songs that call for hope — “Mientras Me Cura del Cora” and “Mañana Será Bonito” — the song list wanders between encounters and kisses, impulsive excesses and cautious infatuation.
“I was going to be really mad about love and everything,” Karol G said. “And at the end of the album, now I’m feeling it again. I used to hate it and now I love it again. So let’s be open to that.”
By: JON PARELES
BBC-NEWS-SRC: http://www.nytsyn.com/subscribed/stories/6600813, IMPORTING DATE: 2023-03-07 22:10:08
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