With Tropitour in motion, Karol G releases the album she announced just last week, titled “No me arrepiento de sentir tanto” (I Don’t Regret Feeling So Much). The Colombian artist had been dropping clues with singles like “Después de ti” or “Matadora,” but few anticipated a full-length record arriving so soon after “Tropicoqueta.” Even fewer expected a lineup of collaborators this remarkable.
On one side is Drake, who delivers a Spanish-language performance on the reggaeton track with Afrobeat touches, “Ahí,” one of the album’s strongest contenders for success. On the other, Bruno Mars joins Karol on “Still,” a dream-pop tune she had written before the American star joined the project and which, according to Karol, wasn’t conceived “for the market.”
There are more surprising names. Rusowsky and Judeline appear together on “BBY WOW,” a track that feels very “DAISY”-like, though Judeline’s involvement goes much further: she is credited as a songwriter on several songs, including the relaxed “Final feliz,” produced by Oklou. Karol G has explained that she was aiming for a sound slightly more alternative than in her previous work, and several songs point in that direction, though not all.
In that vein, the opening’s Tainy-produced track “Te llevas to” stands out, as does the bubbly synth-pop of “Maybe,” or the collaboration with Greg Gonzalez of Cigarettes After Sex, which closes the album. By contrast, tracks like “Matadora” or “For You My Lova” veer toward a more conventional Latin urban sound. In fact, Karol has admitted she hesitated until the last moment about including the latter on the album.
Built around a narrative arc inspired by her breakup with Feid, “No me arrepiento de sentir tanto” traces the various phases of heartbreak, from denial to acceptance. One of the pivotal moments is “Alguien que te amaba,” another cumbia in the vein of the ones Karol has already dedicated to Selena Quintanilla, notable for being written by Pete Astudillo, Selena’s longtime composer who had long stepped away from writing.
Blending that search for new nuances with a return to the Latin urban rhythms that marked her “Provenza,” which seems to directly inspire another track with considerable potential, “Bebiendo lágrimas,” “No me arrepiento de sentir tanto” works less as a radical pivot in Karol G’s career and more as a compilation of the sounds she has explored over the past few years. Among them is also a piano ballad, “Eclipse,” released just days before the upcoming eclipse on Monday.
