In today's episode of 'How It Went Down', Spanish star Aitana shares how she created her new song “AKUREYKI” and how she made the music video with her co-writer, Colombian star, Sebastián Yatra.
aitana
Well the truth is that this is my third song with Sebastián Yatra. We seem to understand each other pretty well in the studio, that's for sure. The truth is that “AKUREYRI” is the song we started in Iceland on a trip we both took in 2023 for the first time for my birthday and we bought a guitar. We went to buy a guitar and Sebastián started trying different guitars that he was recording in the store and he started with the chords of “AKUREYRI” then he started, I don't know, like throwing out some verses, I don't know. like some verses and then I came up with the melody… I have that recorded on a video, you know? Like literally and Sebastián told me, that melody is very nice and then we kind of said ah, let's start a song. We took the guitar and started the song in a car and there the first verses and the first songs of “AKUREYRI” began and then we finished it in Mexico. It's a song that took months, it's not a typical song that you do in a day or a week, but it's a song that we gave a lot of time to and under very different conditions. Sebastián is a very versatile artist. In other words, like he could really make a song that would make you dance, or a song that would make you cry for an entire week if need be.
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