Gabito Ballesteros is led by love in new album 'Ya No Se Llevan Serenatas'

Mexican corrido vocalist Gabito Ballesteros has ever been a hopeless romantic. His newest album, “Ya No Se Llevan Serenatas,” oregon “They No Longer Perform Serenades,” tugs astatine those delicate heartstrings.

Released Thursday, the medium pays tribute to romance successful the integer epoch of smartphones and societal media. Invoking modern-day references, similar sending Instagram DMs and going to Disneyland, helium puts his ain rotation connected the accepted serenade, a ballad 1 typically sings beneath the windowsill of their lover. It’s the benignant of profound romance that determination Mexican acts specified arsenic Joan Sebastian, Vicente Fernandez and Juan Gabriel honed for decades.

“I similar to sing to women, bring them roses, beryllium romantic, and I privation to convey this to my audience,” said Ballesteros successful a connection to The Times.

Sprinkled crossed the 21 tracks is simply a roster of star-studded Mexican homegrown talents, including longtime collaborator Natanael Cano, Tito Doble P, Christian Nodal, Neton Vega, Carín León, Oscar Maydon and Luis R Conriquez.

Colombian reggaeton superstar J Balvin is besides featured successful the Latin-EDM fusion track, “La Troka.”

Ahead of its release, the rising prima teased his sophomore medium connected Instagram with a clip of him driving a classical Ford Mustang filled with dozens of reddish roses. Once parked, Ballesteros pulls retired his guitar from the trunk arsenic his associated opus with Carín León, “Regalo de Dios,” begins to unfold successful the inheritance — a motion that Ballesteros is acceptable to determination his bosom retired to whoever that fortunate psyche mightiness be.

The opus is 1 of the fewer pre-released tracks of the album, alongside poetic singles similar “Cleopatra,” which compares a woman’s quality to that of the famed Egyptian queen, and the agonizing way “Perdido,” which looks to capable the void of existent emotion mislaid with vice.

The already popular, anxiety-riddled “7 Diás,” featuring Tito Double P, is besides included successful the way list; Ballesteros besides performs an acoustic rendition of this heartbreak opus connected YouTube.

“This is simply a precise important medium due to the fact that it tells a precise antithetic communicative than what [I] person been doing],” said Ballesteros. “The assemblage volition get to larn much astir my emotion and heartbreak.”

Ballesteros, who is primitively from Sonora, Mexico, archetypal gained designation successful 2020 with his breakthrough conjunto opus “El Rompecabezas.” After obtaining his grade successful concern engineering successful 2023, helium joined his longtime person Natanael Cano and Peso Pluma connected the chart-topping deed “AMG,” which debuted connected the Billboard Hot 100 astatine No. 92, marking the trio’s archetypal quality connected the chart. Ballesteros aboriginal appeared connected the illustration that aforesaid twelvemonth with the megahit “Lady Gaga” with Peso Pluma and Junior H,” which remained connected the Billboard Hot 100 for 20 weeks, peaking astatine No. 35.

The merchandise of “Ya No Se Llevan Serenatas” comes a twelvemonth aft Ballesteros launched his critically-acclaimed debut album, “The GB,” which landed astatine No. 65 connected the Billboard 200. The 25-year-old singer— who is nether Natanael Cano’s grounds statement Los CT and Peso Pluma’s Double P Management— has rapidly go a unit successful the caller question of corridos tumbados, amassing much than 50 cardinal monthly Spotify listeners.

“If you’re successful love, I would similar for you to dedicate a opus to your person [from this album]. If you’re going done a breakup, perceive to it and heal with the music,” Ballesteros said. “Everything is guided by love.”