Tune of the Week breaks down and talks concerning the track we simply can’t get out of our head every week. Discover these songs and extra on our Spotify High Songs playlist. For our favourite new songs from rising artists, take a look at our Spotify New Sounds playlist. This week, Rosalía and Cardi B stave off winter blues with a reimagined model of MOTOMAMI+ reduce “DESPECHÁ.”

Excellent news, everybody: The MOTOMAMI period doesn’t seem like ending any time quickly.

Rosalía has recruited Cardi B for a brand new remix of “DESPECHÁ,” which was initially a reduce off the expanded MOTOMAMI+ and has since turn into a full of life, upbeat staple of the worldwide pop artist’s stay reveals. This marks the primary time the 2 chart-toppers have teamed up — in a latest interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, Rosalía shared, “Since way back, I needed to make music together with her… Her vitality’s tremendous pure and robust.” Cardi does, in truth, sound correct at residence over the alluring, addictive mambo beat.

The phrase “despechá” itself has a number of completely different translations — it might imply to enrage, or to spite. When the track was first launched, Rosalía confirmed as a lot through Instagram, saying: “There are lots of methods to be Despechá. On this theme, it’s from the freeness or the craziness, shifting with out reservations or regrets.” In months since, she’s additionally made it clear that this track particularly has a sure type of lady energy to it. In an album that’s brimming with energy all through, it is a place the place pleasure and freedom are their very own act of claiming autonomy.

“Don’t want your drama, don’t want your stress/ I might overlook you want uno, dos, tres,” Cardi says in her second verse on the track. Regardless that we’re heading into the colder months, this duo makes it really feel like summer time nonetheless hasn’t ended.

— Mary Siroky
Contributing Editor