The first and last thing you hear onMilo Js new album166is Argentine musical icon Charly Garcia.
Its like See where autotune brought us and where its going, explains Milo over Zoom from Argentina.
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We didnt want this to be a mocking of his legacy.
We wanted to show where autotune has brought us, Milo explains.
This is a very Argentine album, but its not a cliche one, he says.
Its about taking that Argentinidad to more places.
Its an album for everyone, and we made it with that in mind.
To go to any of the studios, you had to take that bus.
It wasnt the fastest, but it was the cheapest way to get there.
The message of the album is how we took 166 to make our dreams come true, Milo explains.
The album reimagines taking the same bus and getting his art to new places.
Its also about reliving what this all cost me to get here, he adds.
3 Pecados Despues
We made 3 Pecados Despues at a song camp.
I went with [producer] Lisan.
We had spent the day making songs, and he was already ready to go to bed.
I sent him some mate and was like, We need to make a beat.
I got some lyrics and I woke him up.
I think the lyrics are the thesis of the album.
Thats why we wanted it to be the opening track on the album.
He completely changed it to minor notes and it became a completely different message.
I had to change some of the bars.
At a second camp with Zecca, we decided to sample Los Dinosaurios by Charly Garcia.
There was a dictatorship here in Argentina and he dropped this song as a protest.
It opens and closes with Charly, who is very significant to the music scene in Argentina.
Hes a one-of-a-kind artist.
Its a sort of homage.
We spoke to his wife, and we showed them the song, and he accepted.
It was a song that we didnt think people would want to listen to.
In the middle of the song is Dana, which complements the story of Paraiso.
We made the second part 15 days before the album dropped.
We had the team with stress attacks!
We were wondering if we should separate the songs.
Its the weirdest song on the album.
Theres also about it feeling computerized and trappy.
And what better place than to put it than on the trappiest song?
Alioli
This is an ironic take on the effects of immediate fame.
It ended up affecting me a bit.
It starts with a lower-sounding intro, but then later it becomes a much happier song.
Its about hiding the effects of fame at the beginning.
The last line on the track is from a song I wrote when I was 13.
Theres a video online somewhere of me singing that song in a McDonalds.
The same lyrics represent me today: Right now, no hay plan.
Secuencias fea de la vida me dejaron mal.
(Right now, there is no plan.
An ugly sequences of life left me feeling bad.)
I wrote it when I was 13, but it keeps representing me today.
Not everyone will get it, but it makes sense to me.
