Belinda Goes Bélica As She Targets Ex Christian Nodál On Prickly Single 'Cactus'

Belinda has a point: Therapy is helpful, but when it comes to heartbreak, music is the antidote.

On Wednesday night, the Mexican pop star released her single “Cactus,” a corrido-pop song that finds her taking aim at her ex-fiancé (and Mexican music heartthrob) Christian Nodál — on of its own kind.

“What was the point of tattooing my eyes, only to erase them with someone else's eyes?” asks Belinda on the dance floor, backed by tuba and requito, as she refers to her ex. After the couple split in 2022, Nodál covered a chest tattoo over her eyes with wings.

The Flaka-directed video sees Belinda as a vaquera in a Wild West themed setting. He sings the lyrics after being separated from a crashed car, inside a saloon and from a phone booth in the middle of nowhere. “I wish they knew how you treated me/A rock that was fake/In an engagement that was just for show,” he sings.

One part of the video sees Belinda in what appears to be a fever dream with a man meant to represent Nodál, who has her bound in a ring of fire and whose chest tattoo over her eyes appears to be bleeding. The video ends with the singer covered in cactus needles before they begin to bloom into bright flowers.

“Now, the spell is broken,” he declares in English at the end of the clip.

Belinda and Nodál announced the end of their relationship in February 2022, almost a year after their engagement. Nodál is now dating Argentinian star Cazzu, with whom she had a child in September. “I made it [“Cazzualidades”] for the mother of my child,” he said Rolling rock last September. “We are going through a very precious chapter as individual human beings, as a team and as a couple. I like to scream our love to the rooftops.”

Belinda's new song comes after a year without music from her. In 2022, he worked with Abraham Mateo in “Me Encantaría”, Ana Mena in “Las 12” and Lérica in “No Estamos Tan Locos”. He announced that he had signed to Warner Music Latina last August.