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Karol G has been teasing a new album era for a few months now, and she finally has a release date. On Friday, the Colombian singer shared the doodle-filled album cover for her upcoming LP, Mañana Será Bonito, and announced that it’ll be released on Feb. 24.
“This is the little face of my album and I present it to you with all the love and pride that I hold in my chest,” she wrote on Instagram. “I seriously can’t believe that I waited so long to share the release date, and that today I can tell you that my album is out in 14 days! I’m so happy and counting down the days.”
Last month, Karol G made the announcement that her album was on the way with an adorable Instagram video that shows her sitting in her car in Medellin on a glum morning.
She finds a piece of paper with instructions for a phone number to dial if she’s feeling sad, and when she calls, a little boy picks up and begins listing things she can do to feel better. “What if you do a show and present yourself there?” he suggests. “Why don’t you sing the ‘La Jeepeta’ song?” He ends the video with some advice: “Mañana será bonito,” he says, which means “tomorrow will be beautiful.”
Karol G caught up with Rolling Stone in New York the day before she made her announcement and she explained that the album took her a long time to finish because, due to its personal nature, she wanted it to be perfect.
“Every day I kept finding something I wanted to change or rethink, or finding little details I wanted to update. It’s always hard, but now I’ve turned it in and it’s finished, and I can’t wait for people to hear it,” she said.
She said the concept was inspired by a tough time she went through over the last couple years. “This definitely represents a specific phase of my life. The name of album is a a phrase I kept repeating to myself when nothing felt great. I mean, I was going through the best moment of my career, but personally I was really disconnected from myself and from my friends. I wasn’t unhappy, but I wasn’t happy either. So every day I’d say to myself, ‘It’s okay, mañana será bonito — tomorrow will be beautiful.’”
The album comes after KG0516, the LP that she released in 2021 that was nominated for the Best Música Urbana Album category at the Grammys. Karol has been touring non-stop since the album came out, completing her Bichota and $trip Love world tours.
This story was updated on Feb. 10 at 2 p.m. ET to include the release date of Karol G’s album.
