“After all the flights and all the shows that we had, we really didn't have time to work on new music,” Marca MP singer Chato tells Apple Music. Then came the pandemic, which effectively grounded the regional Mexican rising stars amid a spate of sold-out concerts in the wake of “El Güero”, their biggest hit to date. “We were a group that would play backyard parties, birthdays, quinceañeras. To play a club for 1,000 people and you sell it out, literally nothing compares to what you used to do.” With everything else on hold, Chato began to craft the new material which this EP comprises. “I was just home and I'm the one that writes all the music for the group, and so I just started writing.” Diverging from the approach of No Me Quejo, a corridor-centric effort released just months earlier, Flores basks in the timelessness of romantic love. “I would see on my social media, like, 'Hey, when is Chato going to start writing new songs?'” he explains of the decision to drop the EP so soon after the album. “If they're slapping your music but they want new music, you got to give the fans what they want.” Here Chato tells the stories behind each of the EP's songs. Tal Vez “‘El Güero’ boosted up a lot of our popularity, and we're here trying to do the same with this release, or, if possible, go higher. 'Tal Vez' is about meeting a girl—right from the moment you see her, people tell that girl stuff about you, maybe stuff that might not be true, but you're there for her. You want to give her your love and you just can't prevent from showing it anymore. Basically, that's kind of the whole template of the song. That was written while we were in quarantine.” Ven Conmigo “It talks about teenage love. You’re on social media, you see this girl's pictures and you've been trying to follow her for a long time. You're trying to convince that girl to come with you. You're telling her that you can be good for her, that you can make her happy and do things for her. That's basically what it’s about, to be your girlfriend.” Qué Fue Lo Que Pasó “This one was mostly to balance out the project. Because let's say we released all love songs, people would be like, 'Come on. I want to get in my feels.' But at the same time, it did happen, it was the way that I was feeling. That song talks about the whole relationship, how both persons started falling in love. The second part of the song is about like her jealousy ending everything because of everything that's going on. What happened to the love that you said you had?” Tú “This one has basically the same structure of ‘Ven Conmigo’. But in this one I try to switch it up a bit, make it a little bit more broad to try to reach more audiences. It talks about telling the girl, like, ‘Don't be like that, give me a chance.’ Then it talks about how you were in the beginning, and then things happened—you started falling in love. ‘Your kisses make me happy.’ After everything that happened, she's the one that makes you happy.” Recuerda “On our first album, we had released a slow song like that, and thankfully people really, really, really appreciated it. It has more than five million views. For me, for a song like that and to have that type of tone—so slow—and to have that type of response, for me, it was good. For this, I wanted to make another one that has the same vibe.”
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