Karol G's new album may just have you crying at the club

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Set us as preferred It may be summertime, but Karol G is unapologetically leaning into her sadness.On Friday, the Colombian pop star released her sixth studio album “No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto,” a 14-track project that details the depths of heartache one can only access when finally tuning out the world.Tinged with dream-pop accents and acoustic instrumentation — though still fringed with her signature reggaeton-pop flair — it is a dramatic departure from her previous album, “Tropicoqueta,” a lofty, genre-rich album that envisioned a Latina-led utopia as a tropic floral paradise.Now, with “No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto” — which in English translates to “I Don’t Regret Feeling So Much” — Karol G swaps her vibrant, tropical facade for a soft blue vulnerability.Her special new brand of perreo melancolía features guest vocals by Drake (who sings in Spanish), Bruno Mars, Greg Gonzalez (of Cigarettes After Sex), as well as Spanish stars Judeline and Rusowsky.The melodrama begins early on with the opening track, “Te Llevas To” — a moody EDM elegy that explores the loss of one’s self after a relationship ends.
In an interview with Elle magazine, the hit maker shared that she spent a lot of time alone when creating this project, following her split from Colombian singer-songwriter Feid late last year — long before headlines caught wind of their breakup in January.“Everything started when I went to Hawaii [last November].I did a lot of hiking alone.
I would climb the mountains alone.I would stand there gazing at the sky.
I learned a lot about enjoying my solitude in this industry — we are really, really lonely.Compared to the rest of the world, you’re very isolated,” said Karol G in the Elle interview.Rumblings of the new project first surfaced in April when Karol G performed at ...