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Kali Uchis on Working With Peso Pluma and Karol G, and the Risk-Taking That Led to ‘Orquídeas’
Kali Uchis' 'Orquídeas,' her second Spanish-language and fourth overall LP, moves from merengue to sultry pop in an open letter to love and life.
With “Orquídeas,” her second Spanish-language album (and fourth overall), Uchis asks her collaborators — which range from global superstars Peso Pluma, Rauw Alejandro, El Alfa and Karol G to JT from the City Girls — to match her level of fearlessness, urging them to step outside of their comfort zone on a playground of pop, merengue, reggaeton, house music and more. The record’s cover art — which references Prince’s 1988 album “Lovesexy,” among others — visually encapsulates where Uchis is in her life and career, some 11 years after releasing her first mixtape: in the center, with her naked body wrapped tightly in rope as a colorful palette of pastel orchids paints the empty spaces. ), she declares herself the center of her man’s universe and is unyielding about her approach to love in the song “Piensameintos Intrusuvos” (“Intrusive Thoughts”), vowing to keep her hopeless romanticism despite the fact “life has broken this heart of mine a thousand times.”
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