Anitta has set a launch date for “Funk Generation,” her first full-length studio effort underneath Republic Records and Universal Music Latin Entertainment. The album is slated for April 26.
“’Funk Generation’ is an album where I celebrate my roots,” Anitta mentioned in regards to the incoming document. “It’s where I express the power of Rio’s funk in every track its unique, danceable, and sensual beats. It’s a rhythm born in the favelas, where I grew up, and it exudes resistance and art in every community. I’m proud to work on a project about a genre that has been unfairly stigmatized in Brazil but is slowly gaining recognition worldwide.”
“Funk Generation” is the prolonged album counterpart to “Funk Generation: a Favela Lovestory,” the three-song bundle Anitta shared final August. That set included the funk-imbued singles “Funk Rave,” “Casi Casi” and “Used To Be,” which gave followers a sign of the place she was headed subsequent sonically. “I dive into carioca funk,” Anitta mentioned in an announcement on the time. “The rhythm that raised me and is part of the culture from where I was born.”
Anitta additionally says this album consists of “important collaborations” which have helped her inform the whole story of this album. This consists of the freshly-released new single and music video “Double Team” that includes Bad Gyal and Puerto Rican rapper Brray. Anitta and Bad Gyal, a Spanish singer additionally signed to Universal Music Latino, have additionally just lately launched “Bota Niña,” a collaboration for Bad Gyal’s debut album “La Joia.”
“Double Team” — a music that trades traces in Spanish, Portuguese and English — arrives with an accompanying music video starring Anitta, Bad Gyal and Brray and is about in a sweltering open-air baile funk social gathering.
Watch the music video for “Double Team” under