Cap\u00edtulo 0<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\nFirst Impressions<\/h2>\n
Sofia Urrutia, assistant to the editor-in-chief:<\/strong> I loved his last album, Cosa Nuestra<\/em>, because it was really inspired by old New York, salsa…bachata, and a very immigrant story, which I think is cool. He\u2019s said that this next album was going to be even more inspired by that, and that the last one was actually preparing his audience to listen to it. The first time I heard it through, there were some songs where I could really feel the inspiration, but then others that sounded like regular reggaeton. I felt at first that it wasn\u2019t so cohesive; he was trying out a lot of different things. Now that I\u2019ve relistened, I hear the cohesion more. I love the songs that are actually more clearly inspired by bachata…some of them remind me of Romeo Santos or Prince Royce songs from the 2010s, songs that I used to listen to in the car with my grandma when I was younger. <\/p>\n\nI see where the inspiration is really thought through, even in the lyrics it\u2019s very clear, like that one song about Caribbean men and women. I think that\u2019s fascinating, especially with the movement that\u2019s going on right now with Puerto Rico. In terms of the landscape of the U.S. right now, it\u2019s really special. And I love the last song, \u201cMirando al Cielo.\u201d The music and the lyrics are just really powerful. It is clearly so empowering to our community, so I think I maybe like the second album more.<\/p>\n\nErica Gonzales, deputy editor, culture:<\/strong> I feel the same. When I first listened to Cosa Nuestra<\/em> last year, I wasn\u2019t listening to it as closely, even though I did like the singles like \u201cT\u00fa Con \u00c9l\u201d and \u201cQu\u00e9 Pasar\u00eda\u2026\u201d with Bad Bunny. With this one, I felt a stronger first impression because he\u2019s trying out so many different sounds. The parts where he experimented beyond a more mainstream reggaeton sound were great, like \u201cCaribe\u00f1o.\u201d<\/p>\nSam Maude, content strategy manager: <\/strong>I wasn\u2019t really familiar with reggaeton or Rauw that much, but I learned a lot more about him. I was really impressed. A lot of the features were really strong. I found his voice on a few of these tracks to be really sexy. I think he was cooking with gas in this album. I am coming into it with a bit of blindness, and I left it that way because I was thinking, Is this an album that will welcome someone into his world and into his genre?<\/em> And I think it did. Nina Garcia is such a big fan of his, because I feel like he incorporates older sounds and salsa, and I felt this body of work was a good combination of the old and the new. Often when I have to listen to music for work, it feels like an assignment, but I finished this feeling obsessed.<\/p>\nEG:<\/strong> Same. I wish I had recorded myself listening, because I was constantly in shock.<\/p>\n\n\u201cMirando al Cielo\u201d<\/h2>\n
SU:<\/strong> I love it so much. It reminded me of music that I might hear in the streets in Panama, music that you listen to at a festival. Do you know the Bad Bunny Deb\u00ec Tirar M\u00e1s Fotos<\/em> album cover with the plastic chairs, where it\u2019s supposed to remind you of your family sitting on the street and listening to music? That song reminded me of music that you could listen to with different generations, and they would all love it.<\/p>\nEG:<\/strong> That\u2019s what people were talking about with Bad Bunny and \u201cNUEVAYoL,\u201d where it sampled \u201cUn Verano en Nueva York.\u201d <\/p>\nSU:<\/strong> I think with this album, my older family members might actually listen to Rauw more. I think he\u2019s going to break into older generations, because his music in the past has been more catered to what we like.<\/p>\nCreative Vision<\/h2>\n
SM:<\/strong> I think that he is really intentional about what he does and and what he\u2019s trying to convey. I don\u2019t say this lightly, but I do think he or someone on his team is a visionary. <\/p>\nSU:<\/strong> I think it\u2019s him. You can tell that he\u2019s a visionary in the way he talks about the world he\u2019s creating, how intentional he is with his style and look for each album, and how he thinks, I\u2019m going to make this album to prep my audience for my next album<\/em>, which is going to be even more out-there<\/em>. I think he really, really pays attention to all the details. And I think with these last two albums, it\u2019s really starting to show, at least for me. <\/p>\n\nA Mix of Sounds<\/h2>\n
SU:<\/strong> \u201cGuabanSexxx\u201d sounds very house and reggaeton to me, and I love that. That\u2019s my favorite genre. He also has \u201cSanta,\u201d which is a single that came out a while ago, so I was a little bit confused why it\u2019s on this album, but that one also feels like a different sound. That one\u2019s one of my favorite songs, and it\u2019s mixed with a Caribbean vibe. <\/p>\nEG:<\/strong> It was also intriguing that he featured Ayra Starr on \u201cSanta\u201d and infused Afrobeats into it. That seems like a very intentional reference to the history of the Caribbean. <\/p>\nSM:<\/strong> I think that could be why I really like this album, too. I\u2019ve listened to reggaeton in the past, and it\u2019s not my favorite genre, but I\u2019m a big house music listener, and so I think that part is grabbing me.<\/p>\nSU: <\/strong>It sounds ridiculous, but I watched Buena Vista Social Club<\/em>, for example, and I sobbed for three quarters of it. I loved it. It was very much emotionally charged, especially after growing up away from Panam\u00e1, where my family is from. It really connected to that part of me, and I feel the same way with these songs and with Bad Bunny\u2019s latest album, too. It\u2019s really impressive when artists like that can really tap into these old sounds and make them also new and digestible for new listeners. And I actually think that he really did that with this album. <\/p>\n\nEG: <\/strong>Also, wasn\u2019t one of his earlier aesthetics space-inspired and futuristic? Maybe he\u2019s bringing that back too. \u201cGuabanSexxx\u201d and \u201cEl Cuc0.0\u201d were some of my favorites. I thought it was fun listening to \u201cSILENCIO\u201d and how he was remixing the bachata sounds. And then I feel parts of \u201cCONTRABANDO\u201d reminded me of Daddy Yankee [laughs<\/em>], so that was a callback to history as well, in a way.<\/p>\nSM:<\/strong> I am curious what comes next, because he already has Cosa Nuestra<\/em> and Capitulo 0<\/em>. Is there going to be sequel? What is the cinematic universe we\u2019re creating here? Is it a trilogy? I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n\u201cEl Cuc0.0.\u201d<\/h2>\n
SM:<\/strong> I wrote down, \u201cIt\u2019s addictive.\u201d <\/p>\nEG:<\/strong> I wrote, \u201cSICKENING!\u201d<\/p>\nSM: <\/strong> I would listen to this over and over again. This needs to be injected into my veins.
<\/p>\nCultural Significance <\/h2>\n
SU:<\/strong> I feel like there\u2019s a movement right now in Latin American music where a lot of artists are being inspired by older sounds. It\u2019s about celebrating our roots and heritage and really owning that. It\u2019s very intentional. One of his lines is \u201cwe are Ta\u00edno,\u201d which is the Indigenous population that was in Puerto Rico when the Spanish came. There\u2019s a shift going on with really tapping into those sounds, and I think it\u2019ll keep going. <\/p>\nI think it\u2019s a really strong album and very thought-provoking too. With the lyrics and the sounds, it just made me remember different sounds I heard in my childhood, which is also something that he was talking about\u2014the inspiration from his parents.<\/p>\n
EG:<\/strong> I was reading the translated lyrics, and there were parts of \u201cCaribe\u00f1o\u201d where he\u2019s talking about not just Puerto Rico, but also all the other nations in the Caribbean, like the Dominican Republic and Cuba, where it was also unifying in addition to just him repping his own homeland.<\/p>\nSU:<\/strong> He\u2019s said it\u2019s a love letter to the Caribbean because we\u2019re all from the same cloth. He really emphasized the fact that this is a shared experience.<\/p>\n\nAlejandro\u2019s Roots<\/h2>\n
SU:<\/strong> The way that Rauw conveyed going back to his roots is through pulling from a lot of different places and generations, like with house music. The way he put them together was very modern and new, and it goes with the story. It\u2019s very theatrical, because the whole thing is very much about the immigrant experience. I think he created a melting pot of music. I don\u2019t think a lot of artists have done that. He has an interesting backstory too\u2014I didn\u2019t actually know that his dad is from Brooklyn or that he was also American. So it\u2019s very unique to him. The more I talk about it, I\u2019m like, \u201cDamn, this was a good album.\u201d <\/p>\nT<\/em>his interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. <\/em>
<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.elle.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prequel films and TV series are everywhere in Hollywood these days, but a prequel album? That\u2019s more rare. Leave it to Puerto Rican superstar Rauw Alejandro to give us a dose of the unexpected. Less than a year after releasing Cosa Nuestra, which just earned a Latin Grammy nomination for Album of the Year, Alejandro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2053108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[310910,381531,285977,285684,381530],"class_list":["post-2053107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-content-type-feature","tag-contentid-2ee53ffe-b3fc-46f5-b458-9f15315a244d","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-locale-us","tag-shorttitle-cosa-nuestra-capitulo-0-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Capitulo-0-Album-Review-and-Full-Breakdown.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2053108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}