Karol G has teamed up with five telenovela giants for a new promotion clip of her forthcoming album, Tropicoqueta.
Inspired by ‘90s Latin soap operas, the Colombian singer released a nearly two-minute Spanish-language video starring herself alongside actresses Anahí, Itatí Cantoral, Gaby Spanic, Ninel Conde and Azela Robinson.
In true telenovela fashion, Karol and Anahí are in love with the same man — who is revealed via photo to be a long-haired Ricky Martin from the ‘90s — and later confront each other in a heated fight. Cantoral rushes in with her iconic Soraya Montenegro phrase from Maria la del Barrio, and screams, “What are you doing? Don’t mess with my daughter, maldita lisiada!” To which Conde then breaks up the argument by responding to Cantoral, “Mamacita, you’re still doing this? It’s been so many years, please get over it!”
Toward the end of the skit, Spanic and Robinson drive up in a red van listening to an upcoming track from the album. “The woman is iconic/ she has dreams/ she has goals,” the lyrics go.
In an Instagram post with photos from the shoot, Karol revealed that she first called Anahí for the project, and then everything else fell in place. “How crazy!!! Nothing like having the opportunity to make a dream come true!!!” she captioned the post. “You touched our lives with each of your roles. What energy on set, what laughter, the most fun shoot ever!!!! What an incredible time we had!! Thank you, queens, for saying yes! It’s an honor to be in the same room with you!”
Tropicoqueta, Karol’s fifth studio album, will drop Friday, June 20. It’s set to be a nostalgic and personal project on which La Bichota says she’s “going back to the roots, to the songs I grew up listening to, to the sounds that made me fall in love with music.”
Watch the Tropicoqueta telenovela teaser below:
