Rosalía’s ‘SAOKO’ Dips Into Her Reggaeton Roots | News

Rosalía's 'SAOKO' Dips Into Her Reggaeton Roots | News

Rosalía has dropped new single ‘SAOKO’.

The Catalan star’s new album ‘MOTOMAMI’ is out next month, and it promises to lift Rosalía to the next level.

Fresh from a Weeknd feature, Rosalía dips into her roots for her latest addictive single.

Out now, ‘SAOKO’ is a doff of the cap to reggaeton, sampling a vintage cut from Yankee and Wisin.

Rosalía says the move “is the most direct homage I can make to classic reggaeton, a genre that I love and that has been a constant and great inspiration throughout the MOTOMAMI project”.

The beat began during a session at the historic Electric Lady studios in New York, with Rosalía recalling: “It was at night and making this beat seemed as fun as driving a Lambo. I then distorted this piano and added some classic reggaeton drums from a library that NaisGai had sent me some time ago, which by the way is something very special to me because this library has been passed from one generation of producers to another for a long time.”

“Before starting this track I kept thinking that I wanted to see some jazz touches in a reggaeton track and sampling Wisin and Yankee’s iconic track seemed like the best way for me to open the song. I also thank Noah, David, Dylan and Uzi for sharing this creative process with me.”

She adds: “If you notice, the lyrics revolve around the same concept: transformation. Each and every phrase is an image of transformation. Celebrating transformation, celebrating change. Celebrating that you are always yourself even though you are in constant transformation or even that you are you more than ever at the very moment you are changing.”

A larger than life return, the video finds Rosalía joining an all-girl biker gang of hell-raising femme fatales.

Tune in now.

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