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Mon Laferte, vol. 1
Mon Laferte · 2015 · Track 7
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The first time Tu falta de querer was performed live, Mon Laferte had no idea the song would become a bridge between her pain and that of thousands. She recorded the acoustic version in her living room with the help of friends who captured the audio on a phone and a laptop. The video, uploaded to YouTube in August 2014, began circulating without pretension: she, with a guitar in her hands and red eyes, sang about the emptiness left by a broken relationship. What started as an intimate exercise ended up being the seed of something bigger. In less than a month, the video surpassed a million views, something unusual for homemade content at the time. The song, which was initially just an outlet, found its definitive form in the album Mon Laferte, vol. 1, released in January 2015.
The creative process behind Tu falta de querer emerged from a dark moment. Mon Laferte has shared in interviews that she was immersed in depression after a breakup, and the melody came to her like a heartbeat she couldn’t shake. The album was recorded under precarious conditions, with no electricity in her apartment in Mexico and using an extension cord in the building’s parking lot to power the equipment. Despite the harsh environment, the record captured that anguish in raw form. In the final version of the song, the opening trumpet solo was replaced by a guitar solo, giving it a more personal touch. The music video, released in October 2015, shows her dressed as a bride, walking through cobblestone streets and hills in San Pedro, San Luis Potosí, with an aesthetic that blends the dramatic and the dreamlike. By 2017, the video had amassed 100 million views on YouTube, becoming the first material by a Chilean singer to receive VEVO certification.