Karol G Opens Up About Her Breakup From Anuel AA: 'I Wanted to Die'
etonline.comKarol G is opening up about the tribulations of her 2021 breakup with Puerto Rican rapper Anuel AA, speaking with about the ways that her emotional struggles influenced her newest album.
Karol and Anuel confirmed their relationship in 2018, and announced their engagement only a few months later. They remained together for two years before ending their relationship in 2021. «I wanted to die, I was crying horribly,» Karol says in 's Global Creativity Awards issue.
On the opener of her new album, released in February, she uses the beat of Bobby McFerrin's «Don't Worry, Be Happy,» and Karol says that she used the song's message as an affirmation for herself following the breakup. «I wanted to tell people: 'It doesn't matter.
Everything is going to be fine,'» she says. The album, translates in English to «tomorrow will be beautiful.» Karol adds that the album offers some of her most personal music yet. "[I'm] exposing a very personal part of myself to the public," she says. «I express a lot of pain in my songs…People have told me that they've been able to get through heartbreaks with my songs.» This makes sense to Karol, because her music has helped her in the same way. «It's taught me how to liberate my emotions,» she says. «I feel that when listeners sing my songs with me, it's my way of connecting with them.
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