Lali & Ptazeta Give Us a Sizzling & Attractive Queer Anthem -

Lali is completely rompiendo en este momento.

After releasing her self-titled fifth studio album final 12 months, one in all my favourite albums of 2023, the Argentine pop queen (actually, there’s one thing within the water with Argentine queens particularly killing it over the previous 12 months) is losing no time kicking off the highest of 2024 with a Sapphic scorcher alongside Spanish rising rap star Ptazeta.

“A Oscuras” (“In The Darkish”) is a seductive dance ground anthem, stuffed with throbbing bass, synths and stuttering vocals. It’s a complete banger, which is solely unsurprising given the expertise packed onto the undertaking: it was crafted by frequent Ptazeta collaborator and producer of Becky G‘s completely superb “No Mienten” Juacko and Mazzarri and FABV, who simply did “Muñekita” with Kali Uchis on her early 2024 Album of the Yr contender, ORQUÍDEAS. (For this reason analyzing manufacturing credit is a lot enjoyable for a music nerd. Every thing is linked!)

As one would possibly anticipate from a collaboration between an brazenly bisexual pop star and an brazenly lesbian rapper, the tip result’s fierce, queer excellence.

The tune is filled with lusty, finger-lickin’ good come-ons, as Lali and Ptazeta recall their moan-filled after-hours hook-ups amid some hesitance about how lengthy it’ll final. (Homosexual tradition!)

“Like ‘wow, wow’ / Ella se pone así conmigo / Desde el primer día que nos vimos / Cube ‘Nunca me la han comido como tú,” Lali declares in one of many spiciest moments. (Mainly, and please forgive my basic-to-intermediate grasp of Spanish: “Like ‘wow, wow,’ she will get like that with me, from the primary day we noticed one another, she says ‘nobody’s ever eaten me such as you.’” Eat what? Effectively. Within the phrases of La Legendtina…you don’t even want a plate, simply your face…HA!

Even when the lyrics aren’t in your mom tongue, concern not: there’s sufficient implied motion within the accompanying music video to let you understand precisely what their tongues have been as much as recently. It’s all set in a scorching mansion social gathering scene, full with killer choreography from Lali – form of like if Britney and Tinashe connected within the “Slumber Celebration” video and forgot all about that man. (So, the best alternate universe.)

Generally I get requested about championing music that isn’t in English – be it from Argentina, Spain, Japan, Korea, wherever – which actually began once I first acquired my palms on the Web as a pre-teen. My query to them is all the time the identical: how may you not be all for what’s exterior of your personal tradition? There are such a lot of thrilling artists to find on the market than no matter your native radio station is taking part in. It feels so dry and boring to be restricted by language boundaries (particularly in an age of prompt translation companies), when the output is so clearly good, and infrequently higher than no matter’s occurring stateside.

Apart from, while you press play on one thing like this, how may you not say cunt? Like, that’s cunt. Like… Precise queer ladies making attractive, scorching music about loving on one another? I like when ladies! Rompieron reinas!

Excitingly, there’s no slowing down in relation to Lali’s musical output in 2024, it appears. Only a few days in the past, she wrote: “No me alejo de la música. Me voy a meter a hacer el mejor disco de mi vida.” (“I don’t get away from music. I’m going to start out making the perfect album of my life.”)

We love a pop queen, and we actually love a pop queen who actually loves being a pop queen. Carry it on, Lali!