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\n\tBut she still didn\u2019t feel right. \u201cI don\u2019t know myself. It\u2019s like I\u2019m a different person. I\u2019ve become super cold. I didn\u2019t want to talk to my friends, I didn\u2019t want to talk to anyone,\u201d Karol remembers thinking. The only thing that helped were letters from fans her team would bring her. Reading what they\u2019d written her gave the singer motivation to talk about what she was feeling, and soon, she was back in the studio, with an outpouring of feelings.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe result ended up beingNo Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto<\/em>, Karol\u2019s most vulnerable, emotional album yet. It\u2019s also a wayfaring, experimental mix of pop sounds, bouncing between electronic production, aching balladry, and huge star-studded swings. She teams up with Drake, Bruno Mars, Judeline, Rusowsky, and more, creating an intimate portrait of heartbreak intended for fans to listen to from beginning to end.\u00a0With her producers, who include longtime collaborators Ovy on the Drums, Sky Rompiendo, Edgar Barrera, and Tainy, she refines the tender-hearted sounds on the album (Oklou, who she kept listening to throughout the process, joins on one song.)<\/p>\n\n\tThe album, Karol admits, was finished for months, but she wanted to wait for the right time to share it. \u201cThis album has been ready for a long time, but to be honest, I didn\u2019t want it to feel like I was exploiting a personal situation. I didn\u2019t want it to feel like this album was part of some marketing campaign. It was very personal to me. It was so personal that I didn\u2019t even feel ready to release it,\u201d she says. However, now that she\u2019s found catharsis \u2014\u00a0 and constant warmth from her fans on her tour every night, she decided it felt like the right time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe reason I decided to put the record outside is simply so that people let themselves feel,\u201d Karol says. \u201cThe point of this album is for people to understand that to truly live, we have to feel. If we limit ourselves and let ourselves go, \u2018I don\u2019t want to feel, I\u2019m not going to fall in love, I\u2019m not going to give myself the chance, I\u2019m not going to speak up, I\u2019m not going to say anything,\u2019 then we\u2019re not going to live. Living is about feeling \u2014 feeling things, feeling every moment, and feeling it to the fullest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
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\n\tBelow, she breaks down all the songs on the album and shares how the music helped her heal and ultimately find herself again.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cTe Llevas To’\u201d<\/strong>
This song is a mix of things.\u00a0I kept telling Tainy, \u201cThis has to sound chaotic,\u201d because the emotion I was feeling was anger that comes from chaos. I was in my head like, \u201cI need to get out what I want to say, and I feel like the production has to sound like chaos.\u201d We started with the person in the song looking back, and everything is over: There\u2019s no faith, no future, nothing. Everything has happened. But then it says, \u201cLet me tell you all the good things I\u2019m left with, even though you broke this.\u201d We started with a synthesizer and then we went to these intense drums which are super chaotic. By the end, you just exhale. You\u2019re like, \u201cI let it out.\u201d And that song was the perfect one to start with.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cMaybe\u201d<\/strong>
The second track was putting things into context a little more and explaining what was happening. In the first one, I vented my anger. In the second, it\u2019s almost like I\u2019m telling a story through the songs, and that\u2019s when we get to \u201cMaybe.\u201d In \u201cMaybe,\u201d I wanted to start with that phrase, \u201cThis time I\u2019m not going to lose you,\u201d which is a phrase that\u2019s repeated a million times in relationships on the brink and it\u2019s never realistic. Like, the relationship gets more and more broken each time, but you\u2019re like, \u201cThis time, yes, this time yes, it\u2019ll work.\u201d But in the end, it\u2019s like when you can\u2019t take it anymore, you just can\u2019t. It was super important for me to start the song with that lyric. \u201cMaybe\u201d explains a little bit like, \u201cWe couldn\u2019t build anything more here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cBebiendo L\u00e1grimas\u201d<\/strong>
\u201cBebiendo Lagrimas\u201d is when you tell yourself, \u201cI don\u2019t want to go through that again, never again. Love is over.\u201d I said in the trailer I released a few days ago, sometimes you just stop believing in everything. Why? Because pain, specifically, makes you doubt everything, like empathy or kindness in life. I feel like in life, it\u2019s not just one situation. Life changes you little by little, little by little. As humans, we see that people, for some reason, change or give off a different kind of energy, and we sometimes don\u2019t ask ourselves what\u2019s happening to them, what they\u2019re going through, and what we could do for that person to make them feel different. What we do instead is to punish them. So the message of that song is, \u201cI\u2019ve reached my limit in matters of love. I\u2019m burying it, and at least for now, I\u2019m going to enjoy my peace, myself, being alone, enjoying who I am \u2014 my career, my friends. But at the moment, I have locked it all away, I\u2019m peaceful, and I prefer it that way. I prefer to be like this.\u201d That\u2019s what I was telling myself. This was one of the first tracks for the album, if not the first.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cAh\u00ed\u201d (feat. Drake)<\/strong>
This is like when you\u2019re no longer in a relationship and you can meet people. But you have to give yourself the space to recover, give yourself time. So, it\u2019s the feeling of saying, \u201cThank you, you\u2019re an amazing person. I\u2019m probably denying myself the chance to experience something amazing, but for now, I can\u2019t. But I\u2019ll keep it there in case it happens in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tI wrote that song on Dec. 31. I didn\u2019t celebrate Christmas partying and all that, but I went to a place in Colombia called Guatap\u00e9, and it was more of a retreat. [My producer] Ovy came with me. He went with his family, and I was with mine. Drake singing in Spanish has always been incredible to me; it never seems forced, and I\u2019d had an interaction with him before. He\u2019d written to me once on Instagram to ask me to send a video to his masseuse who was a huge fan so I sent it and then we kept talking about how cool it would be to do something together. But that was a long time ago so when this song happened, I had that conversation in mind. We started talking about making it a duet, like the verses responding to each other. And I was like, \u201cI don\u2019t know, but I\u2019d love it if Drake sang it in Spanish.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe first week of January, we sent him the song and he loved it. By like January 8, he was in the Bahamas making Iceman <\/em>and our teams met up for like three days to work out the track. I guided him through the recording so I could help him with the pronunciation. It was literally just him, his engineer, and me in the studio. There was no one else. I was with him in the booth, like, \u201cYou have to say it more like this. You have to say it.\u201d The pronunciation was super important to him, and he was constantly like, \u201cPlease, I have to get the pronunciation down.\u201d I feel like it turned out amazing. A little bit of the song leaked, so people were like, \u201cKarol G is on Iceman<\/em>,\u201d and in one of his songs he mentions me. I think that people have been waiting for this collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cFinal Feliz\u201d<\/strong>
Oklou did the production, but originally, it was just a song on guitar. I wrote it with Judeline and it was all acoustic. But Oklou\u2019s stimulates my brain, my emotions, and she uses a lot of ambient sounds, very much in keeping with her production style. It sounds very fresh, very distinct.\u00a0I told my sister, \u201cI have this song and I feel like what I\u2019m imagining for the production could be done by her.\u201d Plus, I admire her because she just became a mom, she\u2019s on tour, she inspires me so much. \u201cFinal Feliz\u201d is a song that talks about when you decide to leave someone because you know where things are headed. And it\u2019s the hardest moment when you decide to leave because you\u2019re not going to wait for the harder blow later. So you\u2019re like \u201cThis can\u2019t go on. It\u2019s going to go badly, badly, badly, badly.\u201d It\u2019s that pain of someone you really want, but it just can\u2019t happen. It\u2019s that duality.\u00a0 \u201cIt could have been a happy ending, but it wasn\u2019t.\u201d When I submitted the song to Oklou, she immediately asked for my personal number. She wrote to me like, \u201cWow.\u00a0I have to be honest, I was surprised because I haven\u2019t heard this side of you before, and I\u2019m so excited to be a part of it.\u201d It\u2019s one of my favorite songs on the album. She made it special and it still resonates with me.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cStill\u201d (feat. Bruno Mars)<\/strong>
I\u2019ve always had it in mind to make music in English, but it\u2019s something I\u2019ve never pushed for, and this song found me. I\u2019m really excited about the idea of a song like this in English, not because I want to change who I am, but because I also have so many fans whose first language is English, and one day I wanted to be able to speak to them from that perspective.<\/p>\n\n\tWhen the composers Isabel and Tom\u00e1s [LaRosa] sent me this song, I felt something very strange. It was as if someone had written exactly what I was going through. We tried to imagine it in other ways, but the truth is, I never felt that anything needed to be changed. The song already had a soul, and I couldn\u2019t stop listening to it and feeling it that way. Then we sent it to Bruno. He connected with it just as strongly and decided to be a part of it. We changed some things in the lyrics a bit, and he also participated in the production. The beautiful thing is that it was never conceived with a market in mind. This album is about letting go of your feelings. And this song was exactly that. Instead of translating it or adapting it to fit, I decided to respect it just as it came to me.<\/p>\n
\n\tHonestly, having a song with Bruno is something I still can\u2019t believe. In fact, yesterday we were here in Las Vegas, and we were hanging out because we were making some content we\u2019re going to be sharing for the song, and I have to be honest, it feels super\u00a0surreal. I traveled to where he was to record because he was on tour, and it was like a whirlwind trip I had to make in one go so I could finish the song quickly and have it ready. I traveled, spent two days with him, and he directed my recording in the studio, it was just his engineer, my engineer, him, and me again. There was no one else there, and he was kind of directing my vocal delivery, my pronunciation. He was like, \u201cI want you to keep your accent, but I\u2019m going to make sure that what\u2019s said is understood.\u201d We were in the studio from 7:00 PM until 9:00 AM the next day.<\/p>\n
\n\tI\u2019m super open to [music in English]. The only thing I wouldn\u2019t do is sit down and try to do a whole album in English like, \u201cThis is my English album.\u201d But it\u2019s about the right song. I feel like what happened with this song is that I really fell in love with it, and I really wanted to include a song in English on my album where I was speaking to a specific audience. If I had the opportunity to connect differently, like, now that we\u2019re going to Coachella and you start to see that there\u2019s a new audience and\u00a0 might not speak Spanish at all.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cAlguien Que Te Amaba\u201d<\/strong>
I ended up working on this song with Pete Astudillo, the composer of Selena Quintanilla\u2019s songs. I was like, \u201cWow, I would love to work with that person.\u201d Since she passed away, he never really worked with anyone else. And it was super crazy because I was with Edgar, and I said, \u201cIt would be a dream to work with him.\u201d Edgar was like, \u201cHe hasn\u2019t made music in a long time but let\u2019s look for him and see what happens.\u201d Then he tracked him down and said, \u201cHe super into it,\u201d and it meant so much because he listened to my album from the heart.<\/p>\n\n\tSomething that Tr\u00f3picoqueta<\/em> gave me, which is huge, was identity. From the beginning of my career I\u2019ve always made it very clear that I\u2019m Colombian, I\u2019m Latina, and on the stages I\u2019ve performed on, I\u2019ve always tried to make that very clear, but with Tr\u00f3picoqueta<\/em>, it was like\u00a0the world understood it. And in fact, it was an album that I feel made more people who didn\u2019t speak Spanish understand who Karol G is. With No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto<\/em>, even though I was very clear that I wanted a more intimate, alternative, sound, I didn\u2019t want to stray too far from the Latin sounds that say, \u201cWow! It\u2019s Karol G.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cMatadora\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>
We all knew what could happen when \u201cMatadora\u201d came out, obviously because of the themes of the song and the way I\u2019m expressing myself on it. But I do feel like \u201cKarol G is always going to surprise you.\u201d So I wanted it to be\u00a0the first song people heard on this album because it\u2019s like a movie that starts with the final scene. And this is how I feel now \u2014 I didn\u2019t feel like this a few months ago. Now I feel \u201cMatadora,\u201d but\u00a0obviously like a normal human, I have good days, I have not so good days, but I feel like I\u2019m at a point of clarity and lucidity, where I want to live peacefully, where I want to keep fulfilling my dreams, where I want to keep having the opportunity to connect, where I want to go out, do things with my friends. That\u2019s how I feel today, like that song.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tSince we\u2019re in the public eye and the media is so focused on artists all the time, we knew what was going to happen in the press, but I actually feel like the song connected better than we thought. It\u2019s growing more and more on streaming every day. People are starting to use it. I\u2019ve seen videos of girls all dressed up, getting ready, in their swimsuits. I just love having songs that embrace female sensuality, especially because that has been so suppressed and frowned upon. I love being able to put those songs out there, where women feel beautiful, gorgeous, powerful. I love this song and putting it out first made people go, \u201cWait, \u2018Matadora,\u2019 but the album is called \u2018I don\u2019t regret feeling so much?\u201d I think it made people excited about what else is coming on the album.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cFor You My Love\u201d<\/strong>
Everyone on my team loves this song. To be honest, that song was the hardest for me to place on the tracklist. The tracklist is super important to me because it\u2019s the experience the fan will have when they listen to the whole album, beginning to end, and that song, because of its sound, didn\u2019t quite fit anywhere. But I felt it was important because it symbolizes when you reach a point where you start to see everything that happened to you from a different emotional perspective. And it\u2019s not so much about the pain anymore, but rather that time has passed, you\u2019ve understood it, you\u2019ve moved on. And when you remember that person, you\u2019re like, \u201dAw, that was so great,\u201d and you see it from a more positive perspective. So the sound of the song was more positive. And I felt it had to be on the tracklist because it\u2019s part of the process.<\/p>\n\n\tI thought about making it the third song, or leaving it for last, because in the emotional process it would be the last step. But I wanted to add a boost here and then you get back to the emotion. I made that with Edgar too, and I\u2019m telling you, when we made it in the studio, there was this incredible magic in the room. I wanted it to start with an organ, which could be a wedding or a funeral,\u00a0so that duality was also a big part of it. And I can\u2019t wait for people to see the video.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cSi Lo Ven\u201d<\/strong>
I could say this song is like the soul of the album. I decided to sing it at my last show. For me, that song, literally, every bar, every bit of it is the soul of the album. It\u2019s what I was just saying, simply allowing yourself to feel and saying it, not like, \u201cOh, look at me be strong or like I don\u2019t care.\u201d No.\u00a0This was the spirit of the album and that\u2019s where I decided, it\u2019s not about being strong or preserving. I want people to finish this album with the initial emotion.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tI wanted to do that for several reasons. One, I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m fully OK yet. I\u2019m not saying I\u2019m not doing well, but I feel like the fact that I\u2019m not ready to experience my life with anyone or open myself up to new experiences makes me feel like I\u2019m still in the healing process, if you know what I mean. I\u2019m still in a process. So it couldn\u2019t end on a different note because I\u2019m not exactly there yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cBby Wow\u201d (feat. Judeline and Rusowsky)<\/strong>
I felt like I needed a song, one that people could dance to in the club but that also had that emotion. So, what happens when you\u2019re in the club and you\u2019re heartbroken? You just think about the other person, about the song you\u2019d love to be dancing to with that person.<\/p>\n\n\tThe first version of the song was just me. But I felt like, live, I wanted to sing that song with more people on stage and for it to really become a bit more of a party. And that\u2019s when I thought of Rusowsky and I said to Judeline, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you join the song?\u201d I worked a lot on that album with Judeline because the way she sings about love made me feel how men sometimes don\u2019t understand how deep a woman\u2019s pain can be. She has something special, and it\u2019s that every emotion feels so intense. She has a song called \u201cIs God Good or Just Powerful?\u201d It\u2019s literally one that lasts about a minute and a half. What she sings is super short, it\u2019s like a verse and a chorus. And I was like, \u201cWow, how can you say so much in a verse and a chorus?\u201d <\/p>\n
\n\tSo it was literally a must for me to write music with her for this album. Our teams got in touch. We told her I was making new music and she traveled to Los Angeles. I spent about a week with her, and it was really nice because the first thing we did was sit down and talk, like, \u201cI\u2019ll give you some context about where I am, how I\u2019m feeling.\u201dWe were both going through almost the same thing, so I loved that because we were in sync and it just worked. I thought, \u201cWe\u2019re both here, feeling almost the same thing, it\u2019s going to flow in a special way.\u201dWe were in the studio for about three or four days, and we made more music there that isn\u2019t on the album.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cCon Qui\u00e9n Andar\u00e1?\u201d<\/strong>
\u201cCon Qui\u00e9n Andar\u00e1?\u201d is another core of the album because it\u2019s you in your room, asking yourselves five thousand questions: \u201cWhat\u2019s happening with that other person? What are they doing?\u201d And that\u2019s something you ask yourself every day, for a long time, many hours of your day. So, \u201cCon Qui\u00e9n Andar\u00e1?\u201d is a core song that gets at the feelings of the album. I want people, when they finish the album, listening in bed, staring at the ceiling and all, to leave them with the emotion I had all that time. I feel like sometimes they tell you, \u201cNo, but don\u2019t let it get to you and listen to those songs.\u201d\u00a0No, that\u2019s the best part of heartbreak, it\u2019s not going to bed and letting the music speak for you.<\/p>\n\n\tOne of the things I\u2019m excited about is seeing my fans live. Being able to experience the album live with all my fans while I\u2019m still on tour is going to be like a community, like everyone is feeling included. I feel like I\u2019m going to start seeing those who will arrive dressed in orange for Tropicoqueta <\/em>or those who will arrive dressed in blue. So I\u2019m really excited because I feel like my concert is going to be like that movie In and Out. <\/em>(laughs.<\/em>) We\u2019re adding a while section to the show, so I can\u2019t wait for people to see it. <\/p>\n\n\t\u201cEclipse\u201d<\/strong>
\u201cEclipse\u201d was the song I was going to end the album with because at the end, I don\u2019t know if you hear it, but it says, \u201cGod, take care of him for me because I\u2019m going to let him go.\u201d This is sort of that moment of looking and saying, \u201cIt didn\u2019t work but why was it so special and so beautiful? But I\u2019m ready to let go.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tHonestly, with the album about to come out, I\u2019m super happy. I feel like I\u2019ve already made peace with a lot of things that are sure to start happening after the album. But I\u2019m absolutely certain, based on the letters from all my fans and the personal things they write to me \u2014 because they write very personal things in their letters, like very specific situations they\u2019re going through \u2014 I know that if this album reaches someone, it\u2019s going to reach the right person, and that makes me feel purposeful. If they understand me, it simply makes me feel that everything I\u2019ve experienced had a reason. And being able to experience it live with all my fans it is going to be like a community.<\/p>\n\n\n
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\n\t\u201cDespu\u00e9s de Ti\u201d<\/strong>
This song is beyond just emotion. It\u2019s when you feel like you\u2019re ungrounded. Things happen, and I\u2019m talking about life in different situations, not just in love, but when you\u2019re in a situation where you\u2019re left not knowing what to do, where to turn,\u00a0what to do with your life, what to do with what you\u2019re feeling. You\u2019re suspended, while everything in life passes by and it\u2019s like your life isn\u2019t passing, like time is passing but you\u2019re not living it. It\u2019s like being on an airplane that\u2019s in the air but isn\u2019t moving. That\u2019s \u201cDespu\u00e9s de Ti.\u201d It\u2019s like, \u201cAfter you, this is me now. I don\u2019t know what to do, I don\u2019t know what to say, I don\u2019t know how to speak, I don\u2019t know how to express myself, I don\u2019t know anything anymore.\u201d And I ended things with her because people had already heard it, and I feel like when it ended with \u201cEclipse,\u201d this song kind of reinforced the feeling emotionally. So putting it there, it was more about feeling.\u00a0I don\u2019t know if it fits in the story\u2019s order, but that was the exact feeling I wanted people to end up with.<\/p>\n\n\tThe fact that my life is so exposed is incredibly complex for me. But it\u2019s also taught me that what matters is what I think of myself, not what other people think of me. I believe you can save yourself from what everyone else thinks of you, but you can\u2019t save yourself from what you think of yourself. So, these past months have been about working on myself, on my personal growth. I feel like I\u2019ve reached a point where I\u2019m working incredibly hard, I\u2019m incredibly disciplined, and I\u2019m connected with my friends and my family. Then I go on stage and I meet all these people who have a real, normal life like mine, who actually understand everything I\u2019m going through. And I think, \u201cThis is what it\u2019s all about.\u201d So, honestly, today I feel really good, yesterday, these past few days, this week. It won\u2019t always be like this. I always say that happiness isn\u2019t a constant state, but rather like sparks, moments, but being at peace is different, and I feel at peace. I feel at peace with myself, with my life, with my story, with what\u2019s happening around me. So I\u2019m totally ready to show it to the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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