Mexican corrido singer Gabito Ballesteros has all the time been a hopeless romantic. His latest album, “Ya No Se Llevan Serenatas,” or “They No Longer Perform Serenades,” tugs at these delicate heartstrings.
Launched Thursday, the album pays tribute to romance within the digital period of smartphones and social media. Invoking modern-day references, like sending Instagram DMs and going to Disneyland, he places his personal spin on the standard serenade, a ballad one sometimes sings beneath the windowsill of their lover. It’s the type of profound romance that regional Mexican acts comparable to Joan Sebastian, Vicente Fernandez and Juan Gabriel honed for many years.
“I like to sing to women, bring them roses, be romantic, and I want to convey this to my audience,” mentioned Ballesteros in a press release to The Occasions.
Sprinkled throughout the 21 tracks is a roster of star-studded Mexican homegrown skills, together with longtime collaborator Natanael Cano, Tito Doble P, Christian Nodal, Neton Vega, Carín León, Oscar Maydon and Luis R Conriquez.
Colombian reggaeton celebrity J Balvin can be featured within the Latin-EDM fusion observe, “La Troka.”
Forward of its launch, the rising star teased his sophomore album on Instagram with a clip of him driving a traditional Ford Mustang crammed with dozens of purple roses. As soon as parked, Ballesteros pulls out his guitar from the trunk as his joint music with Carín León, “Regalo de Dios,” begins to unfold within the background — an indication that Ballesteros is able to pour his coronary heart out to whoever that lucky soul may be.
The music is without doubt one of the few pre-released tracks of the album, alongside poetic singles like “Cleopatra,” which compares a lady’s magnificence to that of the famed Egyptian queen, and the agonizing observe “Perdido,” which seems to fill the void of real love misplaced with vice.
The already fashionable, anxiety-riddled “7 Diás,” that includes Tito Double P, can be included within the observe listing; Ballesteros additionally performs an acoustic rendition of this heartbreak music on YouTube.
“This is a very important album because it tells a very different story than what [I] have been doing],” mentioned Ballesteros. “The audience will get to learn more about my love and heartbreak.”
Ballesteros, who’s initially from Sonora, Mexico, first gained recognition in 2020 along with his breakthrough conjunto music “El Rompecabezas.” After acquiring his diploma in industrial engineering in 2023, he joined his longtime buddy Natanael Cano and Peso Pluma on the chart-topping hit “AMG,” which debuted on the Billboard Scorching 100 at No. 92, marking the trio’s first look on the chart. Ballesteros later appeared on the chart that very same 12 months with the megahit “Lady Gaga” with Peso Pluma and Junior H,” which remained on the Billboard Scorching 100 for 20 weeks, peaking at No. 35.
The discharge of “Ya No Se Llevan Serenatas” comes a 12 months after Ballesteros launched his critically-acclaimed debut album, “The GB,” which landed at No. 65 on the Billboard 200. The 25-year-old singer— who’s beneath Natanael Cano’s report label Los CT and Peso Pluma’s Double P Administration— has rapidly turn out to be a pressure within the new wave of corridos tumbados, amassing greater than 50 million month-to-month Spotify listeners.
“If you’re in love, I would like for you to dedicate a song to your lover [from this album]. If you’re going through a breakup, listen to it and heal with the music,” Ballesteros mentioned. “Everything is guided by love.”
