It’s Tuesday afternoon, and Karol G just landed in Las Vegas, where she’s getting ready for a massive show at the Allegiant Stadium. She’s on a Zoom call from her hotel room, bubbly, ebullient, and excited as ever. Part of this is because a ton is happening: She’s in the middle of her Viajando Por El Mundo Tropitour, which is taking on a wild ride across the globe. If that weren’t enough, she’s releasing No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto, an album that shocked fans when she surprise-announced it this month. She’s practically radiating as she talks about how excited she is to share it with the world.
But huge news aside, that constantly upbeat, vivacious personality is just who Karol is. Yet she’s not afraid to admit that last year, she felt a little like a different person. She’d had a packed couple of years: She’d released Tropicoqueta, she made history as the first Latina to headline Coachella, and she’d played stages from Crazy Horse in Paris to the Vatican. Yet behind the scenes, she was going through a lot, including a highly public break-up, family drama, and tons of criticism around her album. She needed a break.
“In the midst of everything, I canceled a lot of things with the team. I told them during Grammys week, ’I need to stop.’ I had never spoken to them so honestly before, but I told them that I had a lot of chaos in my head, a lot of chaos in my heart, that I needed to pause,” she says. “The very next day after the Grammys, I went to Hawaii and I lived there for about a month and two weeks.”
