‎SATURNO by Rauw Alejandro on Apple Music

“It’s enjoyable to present plenty of choices and several types of music to the individuals,” Rauw Alejandro tells Apple Music concerning the purposeful artistic course of behind his new album, SATURNO. “I at all times wish to be innovating in my music and my artwork.” Development and a variety of types have been integral to the Puerto Rican singer’s ascent to stardom, starting along with his arrival throughout Latin lure’s R&B wave and persevering with via monumental pop moments like “Todo De Ti” and “Baila Conmigo” with Selena Gomez.

Like so many artists earlier than him, Alejandro grew up listening to his dad and mom’ music assortment. His impressionable youth simply so occurred to happen amid reggaetón’s emergence within the ’90s. “I used to be listening to freestyles due to my dad,” he remembers of these early life. “It wasn’t even known as reggaetón; it was known as ‘underground.’” As he cast his personal path within the now extra mature style, rising via the ranks to turn into considered one of its largest performers, his love for the sounds that preceded him remained. And whereas out dazzling stay audiences on his in depth VICE VERSA world tour, additional inspiration struck that led to the decidedly upbeat and immersive SATURNO. “I used to be pondering extra about, performing-wise, what my present is lacking. For subsequent tour, I would like extra vitality.”

Nostalgic and even melancholic inclinations drive this counterintuitively forward-thinking effort, one often interrupted by world-building segues and skits. Although his R&B beginnings manifest once in a while, as on tracks like “LEJOS DEL CIELO” and “QUÉ RICO CH**GAMOS,” the bold SATURNO extra typically appears additional again to yield retro refurbishments just like the dancehall throwback “RON COLA” and the nu-electro jam “CAZADORES” that includes his influential predecessor Arcángel. His decisions communicate to his intentions of integrating previous and current, reviving a Playero mixtape gem by Maicol & Manuel for “DE CAROLINA” and reinventing a reggaetón staple in “PUNTO 40” with Child Rasta himself. “I’ve at all times paid tribute to the OGs, because the starting of my profession,” Alejandro says. “Now that reggaetón is all over the world, I’ve this duty to point out individuals what are the roots and who’re the actual ones.” Learn extra about a few of his favourite SATURNO songs under.

“SATURNO”
“My motivation was the tour, so that you already know what music goes to begin the tour. As quickly as you hear that intro, you recognize one thing’s coming. So, every thing is ready for the present, and I put it in an album. I like to recommend individuals listening to it so as. It is smart so as, with all of the transitions and the way I construct it up. The primary observe is insane. It’s simply to be in your automobile at nighttime and simply go and begin the journey.”

“PUNTO 40” (feat. Child Rasta)
“It was going to be a single simply on my own. I took the pattern, and I created the beat from scratch. Then I used to be listening to the beat going, and I used to be like, ‘It doesn’t make sense if Child Rasta just isn’t right here. I would like him with me right here. He wants to present the approval to make it extra particular.’ I created an area for him on the observe, and he killed it. When he went into the studio, I bear in mind he was actually, actually impressed. It’s a basic music, so there’s so many artists that attempted to do a remake or a brand new music impressed about that.”

“QUÉ RICO CH**GAMOS”
“On the identical time that I’m attempting new stuff, I additionally preserve the essence of Rauw, the R&B, these ‘2/Catorce’ vibes, the attractive songs that folks like about me. ‘QUÉ RICO CH**GAMOS’ is a contented medium of SATURNO sounds and what persons are used to listening about Rauw. This music is for my followers—extra for my followers than for me. However it’s considered one of my favourite ones. I do know persons are going to find it irresistible.”

“VERDE MENTA”
“It’s every thing related from that period—late ’90s, the start of the 2000s. I used to be strictly utilizing sounds simply in that period. That’s why I used the pattern of Ivy Queen in that music. And it’s humorous as a result of the identical time the underground it was arising, the mainstream was freestyling. Freestyle within the ’90s was the mainstream songs within the radio. So, on this album, I obtained each sounds collectively. I did perhaps 30 variations. After I attempt one thing new, I research plenty of the melodies of that sound, giving my contact of city and extra specific lyrics, simply attempting to create that blend. And I wasn’t feeling it. It was a course of, however I believe we did it.”

“DE CAROLINA”
“It’s going to be a nostalgic and melancholic album. Even the picture that I’ve proper now’s this younger Rauw. I do know it’s going to attach with the older technology and with a brand new one. With Maicol & Manuel, ‘La Gente Sabe’ is an iconic music. There’s so many individuals that don’t find out about them. And I used to be like, ‘Yo, individuals want to listen to this once more, however I’m going to do it in my very own means and create my very own sound.’ I sit down with Playero in that music. It’s a banger.”