Karol G Doesn’t Have Any Plans After Her Tour—and She’s Okay With That

is feeling nostalgic as she calls in from Portugal. The Colombian celebrity is at present helming the ultimate reveals of her history-making Mañana Será Bonito tour in Europe, and the unhappy actuality that it’s nearly over is lastly beginning to sink in. “I’ve been crying the entire day,” she says over the cellphone.

For nearly your complete previous yr, she has introduced her newest album, Mañana Será Bonito, on the highway in the USA, Latin America, and now Europe, concluding with a sure-to-be-epic remaining present in Madrid tonight. (She’s even to followers on YouTube.) She’s already made historical past alongside the way in which, most not too long ago commanding the most important Latin European tour in historical past, promoting out reveals in all 10 cities. In keeping with Dwell Nation, she’s the Latin artist with the quickest sell-out fee in London, and the primary feminine artist to carry 4 consecutive stadium reveals in Spain.

The European crowds have been “tremendous hype, and the power was subsequent degree as a result of I believe there’s for positive a [big] Latina neighborhood that’s visiting the reveals,” the artist says. “I really feel [like] they’re actually comfortable as a result of we’re bringing a chunk of their houses, our tradition, to them.”

We caught up with Karol G to debate the ultimate moments of her tour and her new, merengue-inspired summer season anthem.

Your tour is formally the largest Latin tour in Europe ever. How does that really feel?

First, it feels unreal as a result of there are plenty of artists that I like which have been an inspiration for me, and to see our tour making historical past, it’s loopy. On the similar time, I don’t need to take it with no consideration. I simply need to step on these levels and hold dreaming. I really feel that I’m a illustration not only for Colombia, [but] for my Latina neighborhood, all of the international locations in Latin America. I really feel that they [think of] me as a illustration. Meaning much more to me on this tour.

Your newest music, “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido,” which you made with Coke Studio, is a bona fide summer season bop. What was it like writing that within the studio? You labored some meringue components in there, too.

In January, earlier than the tour, I went to L.A. for a month. I [spent a whole] month within the studio engaged on new music. And I received this concept to do a summer season vibe music as a result of I really like summer season…I really like the ocean and I really like the solar and I really like what I really feel after I’m near all this stuff. So I went to the studio, we did this music, and we labored on a bunch of latest music, and I keep in mind that my workforce referred to as me. We had completely different alternatives with completely different manufacturers, however this was an enormous alternative to do that Coke Studio session. They had been searching for one thing actually Latino and [with] a summer season vibe. And I used to be like, I believe it’s tremendous nice in the event that they comply with an concept that I needed to [be on] a rooftop the place I can see the ocean…and all the pieces was so excellent for me. To have the chance to go world with a music that represents Latinos is tremendous superb. So I’m tremendous comfortable.

And then you definitely filmed the precise music video within the Dominican Republic. What was that power like?

The Dominican Republic is, for me, a type of locations the place you go and you can’t recover from it, ever. The folks have a subculture that’s actually particular. They’ve a style of music and the tradition of the folks within the streets, within the hoods…it’s tremendous actual. So once you get there, you get the vibe, you get entangled and also you fall in love and you can’t recover from it.

I keep in mind that I went to the Dominican Republic to do the live performance that I had there for the tour. I made the choice that “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” was the music that I used to be going to do for Coke Studio and that I needed it for the summer season. So to make the choice there, I performed the music a bunch of occasions, backstage at rehearsals and all the pieces, [and] it simply made me suppose that the vibe was there. In order that’s why I selected the place to do the video. And due to the music, as a result of the meringue that I did is from there. So to be actual, I actually needed to do “Si Antes Te Hubiera Conocido” in that nation, with the folks and all the pieces.

It appeared prefer it was so enjoyable to shoot. You’re there dancing and singing with everyone.

It was. It’s loopy, as a result of after I received into the place that we recorded the primary a part of the video, they had been taking pictures half of the day. They had been taking pictures issues with out me. And even after I received there, folks had been so comfortable and dancing they usually already knew the lyrics of the music and I noticed them simply having a good time and vibing and I had a extremely nice feeling about what we had been doing. It was going to be a summer season anthem as a result of the vibe, it by no means lies. We had been tremendous comfortable, we danced, we ate. It was loopy. I beloved it.

While you carry out it dwell in your tour, it looks like the power is nice, you’re listening to folks sing it again to you and seeing everyone dance to it. Is it simply as enjoyable to carry out it in entrance of an viewers?

That one was particular, as a result of we launched this music and I didn’t carry out it for 2 weeks and everyone was anticipating it, like, hey, we actually need this music. So after we completed the reveals, we’d simply put the music on for the folks to hearken to and folks stored dancing and singing, despite the fact that the present had ended. However our first time taking part in it was in Lisbon, the primary evening. And it was a shock, as a result of I completed the present and I went offstage and when folks had been about to go away, we simply turned on the bracelets [the light-up wristbands]. … And that second was loopy. It was like a present, as a result of the present was completed and after we performed it, folks had been screaming so loud and singing the lyrics and dancing. I did a video for TikTok doing a dance that I didn’t know was about to be a problem. And I went down with my followers and the place everyone was doing the problem…it was magical.

It looks like this tour has been life-changing for you. You shared a really sentimental about how laborious it is going to be to say goodbye. Might you discuss slightly bit about what it’s meant to you? Have you ever realized something new about your self from these performances and seeing your followers?

I believe that in the present day is a extremely nostalgic day for me. I’ve been crying the entire day. It’s superb to see the place I got here from, my metropolis and my household, and plenty of years that I used to be dreaming and dealing for this and having the assist of my household and my mother and father. And it’s loopy to see how all the pieces grew to become a actuality and I didn’t really feel it. It was prefer it occurred over a very long time, as a result of it [has] already [been] 18 years of my profession, however on the similar time, it feels so quick. Once we began doing this tour, we didn’t count on that we’d be doing stadiums. We simply launched the album, and I simply took each alternative that got here. I used to be rising as an individual in entrance of my followers on this album. I had the saddest moments in my life written within the music, and I’ve essentially the most superb experiences with them onstage.

I’ve a coronary heart filled with feelings. All of them take me to a special place. However I’m tremendous proud that I used to be therapeutic my coronary heart on the similar time with my followers, with my folks, with my music. And this undertaking has plenty of love and plenty of soul and I’m tremendous comfortable that essentially the most weak work in my life was the album that linked essentially the most with my followers. What I really feel proper now could be that our love and our connection is tremendous actual, as a result of they may see Carolina in all the pieces that I did. I believe they actually love the individual and never the model, and never anything. It’s unbelievable to expertise.

Are you writing music on the highway too?

Writing music? On a regular basis. All over the place. However proper now I don’t have a plan. It’s loopy as a result of, proper now, it’s the primary time in my life that I don’t have a plan for what’s subsequent. I’m simply doing music all over the place I am going as a result of I discover a muse in all the pieces I see and with the issues that I expertise and my feelings. However I don’t know what’s going to be subsequent. I don’t know if I need to launch an album quickly or not, or if I need to simply keep away for some time as a result of a tour [takes] rather a lot from you too.

I simply determined to be actually current in what I used to be doing as a result of I don’t know if I’m going to do it once more. So I actually made the choice to be tremendous current and never be considering, What’s subsequent? What’s subsequent? What’s subsequent? I’m simply doing music as a result of I really like doing music, and I’m going to complete this tour and I’m going to be away for some time. I’m going to let life shock me with what’s subsequent.

This interview has been edited and condensed for readability.

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