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"Kisses" is the fourth studio album by Brazilian singer Anitta, released on April 5, 2019, through Warner Music Brasil. It is a trilingual visual album, with songs in Portuguese, Spanish and English, and music videos for each track.
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Sung in a mixture of Portuguese, Spanish and English, it is her first to feature US stars – as keen, no doubt, for an introduction to Anitta’s staggering South American audience as she is to capitalise on their household names.
Some of these business-minded mergers are more successful than others. On Onda Diferente, Snoop Dogg supplies a rap that manages to be both extremely lazy and unsettlingly pervy, while Rae Sremmurd’s Swae Lee parachutes his mellifluous Auto-Tuned vocal into Poquito, a cookie-cutter pop song with little staying power. Other songs, such as the Becky G-assisted Banana, contain more character. A riot of hyperactive production and absurd innuendo, the track provides a vehicle for Anitta’s assertive sex-positivity, as well as some hilarious lyrics (“Oh Willy Wonka, how you get so tasty? / Mama made a boy but she should have made a pastry”). This palpable personality doesn’t make its presence felt on every song, however, and the fact that Kisses tends to cleave closely to the Latin pop template – it’s built on funk-laden grooves and flickering trap beats, with shades of reggaeton thrown in – makes Kisses an album that feels more like a crowdpleasing sign of the times than a particularly thrilling proposition in its own right.
Reviewed by Rachel Aroesti for theguardian.com.
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