Anitta has returned with a new collection of songs, Funk Generation: A Favela Love Story. Stream the EP below.
Spanning only 3 songs, Funk Generation: A Favela Love Story captures Anitta’s passion for her homeland, Brazil, as well as her knack for serving pop beats with an international allure. Speaking about the new songs in a press statement, she explained that her music-making process is a personal one, and she strives for it to be “both incredibly Brazilian and intentionally international,” while making sure that it still “sounds like me in every fiber of the music.”
Last month, she shared the first taste from Funk Generation, “Funk Rave,” which encapsulates the project perfectly. “Brazilian funk is my roots,” Anitta said, referring to the inventive Brazilian genre that, actually, doesn’t have much to do with American “funk.” Continuing, she explained: “It’s what I was born and raised doing. It’s home to me. I made this new music with the intention of showing everyone those roots, what’s most important to me, and leading with ‘Funk Rave’ does exactly that.”
In 2022, Anitta dropped her fifth studio album, Versions of Me, which propelled her to heights no Brazilian pop star had ever gone before — among other achievements, it became the first Brazilian pop album to get over 1 billion streams on Spotify. The album even earned Anitta a nomination for Best New Artist at the 2023 Grammy Awards.
Funk Generation: A Favela Love Story is out now. Watch the lyric video for the track “Casi Casi” below.
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Funk Generation: A Favela Love Story Tracklist:
01. Funk Rave
02. Casi Casi
03. Used to Be
