Karol G enlisted the most iconic villains and characters from telenovelas to tease her new album, Tropicoqueta. On Monday, the Colombian queen released a Televisa novela-style trailer featuring the likes of Anahi, Ninel Conde, and Itatí Cantoral.
“Intense, unpredictable, dramatic… magical, authentic, one-of-a-kind,” wrote Karol G in the caption for the video. “Songs that are sung from the soul, danced with the body, and screamed from the heart!!!!!!!”
The trailer opens with a playful spin on the iconic “Televisa Presenta” intro, reimagined as “Bichota Films Presenta.” Styled like a classic telenovela, it shows Karol daydreaming about a love interest, Ricky Martin in his youth. Meanwhile, the scene cuts to Anahí, who’s also dreaming over the same man. “I know you love me,” the Rebelde icon says through dramatic tears. “I know you love me!”
The clip then shows the sexy Ninel Conde — who starred in Rebelde and Fuego en la Sangre — walking down the stairs before villainous icon Itatí Cantoral, known for her role as villain Soraya Montenegro in María la del Barrio, appears for a kitchen scene. “I won’t allow anyone to take the love of my life… That woman is the worst,” she yells, seemingly referring to Karol. “I hate her! I detest her!”
The trailer then jumps to Karol and Anahi getting into a physical fight over Ricky as Cantoral watches from afar. “What are you doing?!” she says, recreating a scene from María la del Barrio. “Don’t mess with my daughter, maldita lisiada!”
Soon, Gabriela Spanic — known for her starring antagonistic roles in La Usurpadora and Soy Tu Dueña — is seen driving crazily in a minivan, before declaring, “I have seven lives like cats,” as she listens to Tropicoqueta.
The trailer teases a “story of love and nostalgia” on the new album, which the singer announced last week. It’s set to drop on June 20. Karol promised that the album is a return “back to the roots, to the songs I grew up listening to, to the sounds that made me fall in love with music.”
“This album sounds like a little bit of everyone,” she said. “This album is soul, it’s passion, memory, it’s nostalgia, it’s joy, it’s party, it’s identity. As a good friend said, ‘It’s a love letter to what we were and a manifestation of what we are now.’”