Pablo Alborán is not recorded every day on TikTok dancing to an Afrobeat song. It must be that ‘TUTELA’ by Alu is so good that the singer-songwriter couldn’t resist. Listening to it, it is totally understandable. It is the freshness that Cutemobb already had with the excitement of a new voice that could have a future in the mainstream. It’s the Song of the Day.
Within the Barcelona collective, Alu has always provided the Afro touch. We met him for the first time thanks to the ‘Cute Tapes’ and Leïti’s good taste. Precisely, the artist boasted about this in an interview that we published a few months ago: «Alu appeared for the first time in ‘Cute Tapes’. Now, Pablo Alborán is making videos dancing to his song,” he commented. Leïti is clear: “We have been making a good bet, but on a slow burn.”
In this portfolio of bets, Alu is one of the strongest. The viral ‘TUTELA’ is an addictive display of cadence and flow, topped with a beat that could work on its own thanks to the production of Mottal à la Prod. In the lyrics, the young artist sings about the “body” that he has “under my tutelage.”
In the lyrics, Alu proves to be a specialist in expressing just what he wants with the minimum: “A full life / Baby of cinema, of a novel / Put color on it, now brush / With everything one longs for,” he sings in the first verse. The short duration of the song prevents it from becoming repetitive, but no one would have complained about one more repetition of the chorus, which only sounds twice: “That bodysuit under my tutelage / Spends the nights on my plot / Blessings for a whole life.”
@pabloalboran I want toooooo
♬ original sound – Alu
