One of the young talents that we will see this year in Mad Cool, in this case on the same day as Olivia Rodrigo and St Vincent, is the Chilean Akriila, a war name of Fernanda Sepúlveda. This is one of the emerging artists of Latin American music in recent years, which has already walked through Spring Sound or Babel River.
Among his referents are Ana Tijux, Clairo, Tokischa and Michael Jackson, although in his case he throws more towards the urban. If one of those influences shows in his music, it would be clearly that of Tokisca.
His debut of 7 songs ‘001’ in 2023 and especially ‘epistolares’ in 2024 put it on the map. This last album accumulates Millionaire streams through collaborations with Facebrooklyn and Juicy Bae (‘Epitaph’), Pepinacos such as ‘Superficial’ or the acoustics ‘letter to my dad’. Another facet of Akriila.
There were also in ‘Epistolares’ a trchant song called ‘Popper’, headed by its war cry «Hot gays liste to akriila», and whose lyrics said: «And I who brought popper and kitten with jewels, in my head sounds pop, Pop, pop ».
His new single is called ‘virtual sex’ and it is another demonstration that the “hot gays liste to akriila” through the phrase “and good that I left fag”, which is a reference to Álex Andwandter, as it clarifies the same lyrics, specifically to the topic ‘Now we are two’.
‘Virtual sex’ is really a fairly reggaetonera song, built on the hook “I did my nails for you”, also highlighting the phrase “I would even make my ass for you.” And that is not incompatible with a totally melancholic melody, somewhat ‘before I die’ in those “before I go to die, teach me a photo”; And very contagious in his “again, again, again …”
It is in addition to a shared production with Denmark, producer born in Chile and raised in Sweden, whom you know about his recordings with Rusowsky, but also probably for a CV in which Shygirl, MS Nina, Paloma Mami, Dellafuente, Ralphie Choo, Isabella Lovestory and Villano Antillano, among others.
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