Bichota season is officially here, and Karol G is letting it be known with an extended edition of her fourth album, Mañana Será Bonito. In March, the Colombian singer made history when the original version became the first No. 1 all-Spanish-language album by a female artist on Billboard’s Hot 200 albums chart, and it’s also the highest-selling Latin album of 2023. Not even a decade into her already uber-successful career, Karol G has collaborated with musical legends like Nicki Minaj, Shakira, and Romeo Santos.
Karol has landed on the cover of Rolling Stone to commemorate the additional tracks on Mañana Será Bonito (Bichota Season), and she doesn’t take her meteoric rise for granted. “I imagined that I was going to accomplish a lot of things in my life, but really, I never imagined it’d be to the point that it is today. To reach so many people, touch so many people in so many different aspects—it still blows my mind,” she told the publication. “Life has shown me that so many things are possible. I have 10 times more ambition and vision than what I imagined.”
The album, which contains reggaeton, Afrobeats, dancehall, and trap influences, was heavily inspired by her healing from a breakup with Puerto Rican rapper, Anuel AA. The former couple started dating in 2018 before they broke off their engagement in 2021. In her Rolling Stone interview, Karol revealed how she was feeling ahead of releasing the original version of the album back in March.
“The two weeks before the album came out, I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t eat,” she shared. “Being so exposed in my music was very psychologically heavy.…Imagine something like this happening, and you have to tell millions of people what happened to you.”
While the original album was a vulnerable account of Karol’s healing process, she used Bichota Season to expand on other emotions she felt during the time—including liberation.
“[On Bichota Season] I go over the strange moments, the crazy moments, the difficult ones in my head,” she explained. “The moments where I felt, ‘I’m dying and I won’t be able to deal with this.’ It’s what I had to go through to get to today.”
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