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Maluma Went Back Home For His Best Album In Years: Here’s How He Did It

Billboard·Leila Cobo·17 days ago
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The Colombian star returns to his roots in 'Loco X Volver." Here are 5 key tracks. 5/15/2026 Maluma Pablo Padilla The video to Loco X Volver , the opening track to Maluma’ s album by the same name, begins at daybreak, with a Colombian campesino (or farmer) carrying a basket of flowers down the mountain to the strains of an acoustic guitar. The visual — set to the beat of a 6/8 bambuco, the most traditional rhythm of Colombia’s Andean regions — and then Maluma’s opening line —“Mother, what’s this I’m feeling?”—clearly aims to tug at heartstrings. The song “Loco X Volver” (Dying to Come Back), is a love letter to Colombia that puts everything and the kitchen sink into lyrics and imagery, a smorgasbord of iconic scenes from Maluma’s homeland: soccer, bicycles, firecrackers, grandparents, home cooking, horses, countryside, and a beaming artist who looks genuinely at home (specifically in his state of Antioquia) in the midst of it all. It’s a lot, and yet we lap it up.…

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