Lali (album)
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Released | 13 April 2023 | |||
Recorded | May 2021 – January 2023[1] | |||
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Length | 35:38 | |||
Language | Spanish | |||
Label | Sony Music Argentina | |||
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Lali is the fifth studio album by Argentine singer Lali. It was released on 13 April 2023 by Sony Music Argentina. The album was mostly written by Lali, Galán and Mauro De Tommaso, who also produced it. An extended edition of the album including two new tracks was released on 12 December 2023.
The album marks Lali's comeback to her pop music origins after exploring Latin sounds like reggaeton and trap in her previous records Brava (2018) and Libra (2020).[3] It stood out for revisiting multiple sounds and elements of the pop music from the late nineties and early two-thousands and for making numerous references to pop culture. It was defined by Lali as her "most personal and sincere album to date".
Background
In November 2020, Lali released her fourth studio effort,
Some time after, Lali met Mauro de Tommaso and Martín D'Agosto, also known as Galán. De Tommaso expressed that he had always wanted to work with Lali because he is a fan of Max Martin and the music he has produced for artists like Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, Katy Perry or Taylor Swift. He also was responsible for introducing Lali to Galán and inviting him to work together. Galán, a devoted fan of Spears, had always felt that there was no one in the mainstream Argentine music scene who did pop music. However, he started to pay attention to Lali when she debuted as a solo singer because she was doing that pop sound that he loved. Galán added: "as a gay person, I wanted to consume a diva [and] Lali fits that role very well: she sings well, dances well, and has an aesthetic interest. Her videos from her debut album are pop [and] very Britney [Spears]. Lali meets all the requirements of the diva fantasy for the gays". He also said that he connected perfectly with Lali from the very beginning because they both realized that they had grown up listening to the same music.[5] The trio formed by Lali, Galán and De Tommaso named themselves "El Triunvirato del Pop" (Spanish for "the triumvirate of pop") and adopted the mission of taking the local pop to the level of what they always consumed from "foreigners".[6]
Recordings for the album began as early as May 2021.[1] De Tommaso admitted that it was him who proposed Lali to make an album like Blackout by Britney Spears. They did not want it to sound like Blackout, but they took it as an example of what Blackout meant for Spears: a change of sound, a transition. Both Galán and De Tommaso felt that, like Spears's album, Lali's fifth studio album had to represent "an expression of freedom after transiting her previous records in which she had to follow more instructions" and were aleady convinced that the album had to be Lali's self-titled album.[5]
On December 22, 2021, Lali posted a 30-second video directed by Renderpanic which contained a snippet of what would become to be known as "Disciplina" and the words "Lali 2022", hinting that new music would come in the following year.[7] In early 2022, Lali made her highly anticipated comeback to music by releasing a collection of singles consisting of "Disciplina", "Diva" and "Como Tú", all released with two weeks apart from each other. The songs had been recorded in 2021 between Buenos Aires and Madrid.[5]
In April, Lali announced that she would be touring in 2022 with her Disciplina Tour.[8] The tour began on June 23 at the Luna Park Arena in Buenos Aires. Due to high demand, shows had to be added at Movistar Arena and eventually the fifty-thousand-seat José Amalfitani Stadium.[9] With the latter, Lali became the first Argentine woman to sell out that stadium.[10][11] The tour went on to sell out venues across Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Spain and Israel.
Prior to the album's release, four more singles were released. In June 2022, Lali released "N5", which became one of her most successful songs, reaching the ninth-position on the Billboard Argentina Hot 100 and receiving a gold certification in the country. The singles that followed were "2 Son 3" in August, "Motiveishon" in November after the singer was a headliner at the 31st annual Buenos Aires Pride, and "Cómprame un Brishito" in March 2023. Lali released the latter as a gift for her fans who had been asking for it after it had been recorded and posted by guests at her 30th birthday a year before.[12]
The album was finally announced on 30 March 2023 via Spotify through a countdown on her artist profile. She became the first Argentine artist to use the tool, generating an "unstoppable anticipation".[13] The cover, tracklist and release date were also revealed that day when the album became available to pre-save on the platform. At last, the album was released on 13 April 2023 accompanied by its eighth single, "Obsesión".
Concept and title
Regarding the theme of the album, [Lali] uncovers her most personal and omnipresent side with the ability to get over a heartbreak with her hand on her waist, but also giving value to her self-esteem and demanding her diamonds. Lali is an album to go out at night spreading glitter anywhere, with anyone, carelessly.
Part of the album's description on Apple Music.[14]
Lali is "an ode to pop [music]" in which the singer revisits many of the music influences that she was fed on throughout her life.[15] Described as her "most pop album", it presents multiple sounds and elements of the pop music from the late nineties and early two-thousands.[16][17] Among these, it is possible to identify the heavy influence of artists who dominated the period such as Britney Spears, NSYNC and Jennifer Lopez.[18] In an interview with Rolling Stone, Lali referred to this influence: "It has a sound like that [of the early 2000s], but on purpose because that is what I feel. I am so that. I've danced that my entire life. It defines me a lot. Bringing that back to the present is the idea of this album".[5]
The album was titled after Lali herself "not because of mere egocentric devotion" but because it is her "most sincere" one. In an interview with GQ, Lali said: "it is [the album] that represents me the most and, somehow, my entire path since I was a child".[19] On a similar note, the singer expressed to Los 40 that she chose the title because "it closes a stage of [her] life" and added: "I am thirty-one [years old] and I wanted that stage and the path traveled to end" and that "this album defines that Lali who worked so hard to get to a fifth album".[20]
Cover artwork
On 30 March 2023, Lali unveiled the album's cover art, aesthetic and release date through an official
Music and lyrics
Lali consists of thirteen tracks, with two of them being labelled explicit. The record marks Lali's first album to not contain any featured artist since Soy (2016). Musically, Lali is the singer's "most pop record in which she combines sounds of the 2000s with hyperpop, dance and EDM".[2]
Writing and production
The album was written entirely by Lali, Galán, and Mauro De Tommaso. The trio named itself "El Triunvirato del Pop" (Spanish for "the triumvirate of pop").[5] Only "Disciplina" and "Diva" feature an additional writer, Dano.[27] The album's production was entirely in charge of De Tommaso. Dano also serves as co-producer in the two tracks he helped writing, while Jean Luka co-produced "KO", and Lex Luthorz was involved in the production of "Diva".[28] This reduced number of producers contrasts sharply with her previous record, Libra, for which Lali worked with different producers for every song. When asked about the production of Libra in a 2020 interview, Lali had said: "I decided to get into the studio everyday with a different producer, a different songwriter, with people that had different ideas from the composer of the day before, willing to make songs that are not similar to the music I made the days before".[29]
Lyrically, the album "has to do with [Lali's] emotional and sexual-affective quest". In an October 2022 interview for Shangay, Lali had teased that the album was born from her night-life experiences and had a lot to do with having lived in Spain for some time, adding: "I met a quite-hyporcite-with-herself Lali who had a lot of fears and was censoring herself, so the album is a really sincere one which reflects my quest during all this time".[30]
Songs
Lali opens with "
In "KO" (short for "
"It is my dream to love in such a sane, good, non-selfish, sincere way, with my good and bad things. Humanity defines us. The pressure of being what the other needs to be happy is just too much. You have your problems [and] I have mine but we choose to be together and love each other uncondionally".[44]
For the seventh track, "
"
The album's last three titles comprise the most
Reception
Critical reception
In a positive review for
Commercial performance
Even prior to its release, the album debuted at the top of the
Track listing
All tracks are written by
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Obsesión" | 3:11 | ||
2. | "Disciplina" |
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| 2:37 |
3. | "Cómprame un Brishito" | 2:24 | ||
4. | "KO" |
| 2:51 | |
5. | "2 Son 3" | 2:45 | ||
6. | "Incondicional" | 2:32 | ||
7. | "Quiénes Son?" | 2:42 | ||
8. | "Diva" |
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| 3:06 |
9. | "N5" | 2:34 | ||
10. | "Ahora" | 2:36 | ||
11. | "Motiveishon" | 2:38 | ||
12. | "Como Tú" | 2:46 | ||
13. | "Sola" | 2:50 | ||
Total length: | 35:38 |
No. | Title | Length |
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5. | "Baum Baum" | 2:34 |
14. | "Corazón Perdido" | 3:04 |
Total length: | 41:17 |
Notes
- "The Stop!" remix version of her 1998 song "(You Drive Me) Crazy".[33]
Personnel
Musicians
- Lali– vocals
- Martín D'Agosto – background vocals (tracks 1–4, 6–13)
- Mauro De Tommaso – keyboards (all tracks), programming (1, 3–13), guitar (1, 4–13), drums (2, 9), percussion (9)
- Danilo Amerise Díaz – keyboards (2), drums (8)
- Bela Di Iorio – background vocals (1)
- Vir Modica – background vocals (1)
- Brian Taylor – guitar (2, 8, 12)
- Ca7riel – background vocals, guitar (4)
- Caterina Finocchi – background vocals (6)
- Claudia Alejandra Tapia – background vocals (6)
- Iván Vicente Borda – background vocals (6)
- Laura Herrera Ferreirós – background vocals (6)
- Juan Giménez – bass guitar (8)
Technical
Charts
Chart (2023) | Peak position |
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Argentine Albums (CAPIF)[66] | 1 |
Uruguayan Albums ( CUD)[64]
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1 |
Release history
Region | Date | Format(s) | Edition | Label |
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Various | 13 April 2023 | Standard | Sony Music Argentina | |
Argentina | CD
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Uruguay | ||||
Various | 12 December 2023 |
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Deluxe | |
Argentina | 13 December 2023 | Vinyl LP |
References
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