Xavi Questions If He's Really the Bad Guy on New Single ‘El Malo'
Xavi is fine with being el malo — but he knows he probably isn't really the bad guy. On Thursday, the música mexicana star released his solo single, 'El Malo.'
'All my songs come from real life situations, and this one's for anyone who gets called the bad guy just for keeping it real,' Xavi tells Rolling Stone about the song.
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The ToroHFilms-directed video captures Xavi inside a courtroom as he takes the stand to make his declarations, reliving the story of his breakup with a baddie who also tells her side of the story.
'If I'm the bad guy in the story, why do you forget you hate me when you're drunk?' sings Xavi in Spanish. 'You act like you're my girlfriend, and you send me pictures of the Victorias,/And you act like it didn't happen when you're sober.'
While this is Xavi's first solo release this year, he also joined Belinda on single 'Mírame Feliz' and he was joined by Neton Vega on 'Hija de Papi' and Manuel Turizo on 'En Privado.' The new singles followed his debut album, titled Next, which dropped last year.
'I was trying to keep it as original as possible. I think all the fusions kept it 100 with the genre. We're not jumping straight to reggaeton or anything like that,' he told Rolling Stone of the record last summer. 'As Mexicans, we want to keep pushing our genre and flag as high as possible. And we want to stay true to the genre and take it as far as possible.'
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