La trenza

Before its release, Mon Laferte had already been testing songs live: Cielito de Abril —which had been featured in the film Loco cielo de Abril— and No te fumes mi mariguana, a track she herself described as a musical joke inspired by Lalo Guerrero’s Marihuana Boogie and designed for her show. But the album held even more personal surprises. The closing track, La trenza, was born from her grandmother’s words: according to an interview, the lyrics are literally the story of how her grandmother imagined her granddaughter’s life. Also notable was Pa’ dónde se fue, which she wrote in a single day and called one of her favorites because "it came easily," as if it had always been written. The collaborations didn’t fall short either: Enrique Bunbury in Mi buen amor and Manuel García in Cielito de Abril gave some tracks an unexpected twist, while Los Celestinos lent their voices to Yo te qui.

Five months after its release, in November 2017, the deluxe edition arrived with four new songs —Alelí with Caloncho, Vendaval, Palomita and Cuando era flor— and a DVD featuring live footage from her Amárrame Tour at Santiago’s Teatro Caupolicán. Those concerts, filmed for cinema screens in Mexico, closed the album’s chapter with a curious detail: Alelí was an updated version of the song already heard in the 2014 film. The album, in short, not only confirmed Mon Laferte as an artist capable of moving between genres without losing her essence, but also proved that sometimes the most authentic songs are the ones already there, waiting to be told.