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Li Saumet and Beto Montenegro of ASTROPICAL stopped by Genius to break down their song “Me Pasa (Piscis).” The duo dive into how the track came together, having an astrologist to assign horoscopes to songs, and lightheartedly weaving their culture into the music.

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00:00After we have all the songs,
00:01we share with like astrologists
00:04and they decide what sign is any song, you know?
00:09Like this is Pisces, this is Virgo, this is Aquarius.
00:14Each song has like some particular aspect of this sign.
00:25So I heard the track
00:27and I have this lyric came to my head
00:31and I start to just write the song.
00:34It was like one hour I have a song.
00:36So I sent to him and he said, I love it.
00:39So let's go to the studio.
00:41So when the first time that we get into the studio,
00:43that song was almost ready.
00:45We rewrite some stuff in my part and we love it.
00:49It was like, it was very fast.
01:11So this is about like, you filtering with someone, like coqueteando, and you, oh my God,
01:20you have to be careful because I'm coming and when you get in, you never go away.
01:47It's like you're a trap in this, in this relationship, but not in the bad way, in the good way.
01:52Like you're happy. And it's so intense. When we're so high, nobody can stop us.
01:58That part is more like that, like, woo, let's go to the moon.
02:22We have a dicho, eh, que es, when you like someone, me mueves el piso.
02:28The floor is moving, you know, como un temblor.
02:30It's a beautiful contrast because it's kind of like feeling that you're flying,
02:34but then in the hook you go like, you're moving my, the ground, you know, in a way,
02:39what is happening to me, you know?
02:40So the hook is the question.
02:42What's happening with me that I'm in this crazy, trippy-trip.
02:46Yeah.
02:55The whole verse are like about traveling and feeling this kind of trip, but then in the coro,
03:02you feel like, how do you feel it in reality, you know?
03:06And the post hook, in a way, is kind of like, it concludes by, I only need you.
03:12That's the only thing that I need.
03:24The champeta rhythm is a Caribbean, Afro-Caribbean rhythm.
03:29It was the El Baile Prohibido.
03:32It was so intense, so a couple danced that and it was so hard.
03:37So to be in the sun, que esté ahí, como específicamente, bailando champeta is,
03:41cuando tú estás ya bailando champeta, it's something like really strong, like really hard, so.
03:46Vamos a atravesar, como los cometas, prendidos en fuego mientras resolvemos de quién es la arepa.
03:55Let's travel like the comets, and then we're going to be on fire and we're going to solve
04:02where is the arepa from, because there's a, there's a cultural thing with the arepa that
04:07Colombians say that they are like, they-
04:10Debes arepa.
04:11Debes arepa.
04:11Si, debes arepa, sorry, Colombia and Venezuela.
04:14So in a way, it's kind of like, we're going to be in this whole trip solving that problem.
04:26Like in a way, I've been trying to mix like funny stuff and simple stuff with cultural
04:33stuff and I feel like Joko and John are like a cultural thing and I feel that it's an image
04:40that represents like the hippie, you know, the Woodstock hippie era in a way.
04:45So it was like a good, a good thing to say in that, in that part of the song.
04:55I have to stop like naming Juan Luis in all the songs.
05:03I've been doing a lot of that.
05:05I'm a huge fan of Juan Luis, but yeah, we were talking about slow motion and gravity
05:09and stuff.
05:10So, and it rhymes with Cuatro Cuarenta, that is his band.
05:14So yeah, I'm very proud of this verse because I feel that it's a good, it was a good starting
05:21point for the whole album, you know?
05:35This is like the end.
05:36So we get in this trip, viaje, where we start like getting in, going this rocket with the
05:47stars and the space and go there, blah, blah, blah, and come back and land in the terraza.
05:58And then we drink a coffee after that amazing planetarium trip.
06:03We end up in our home, our home together, right?
06:06Yeah.
06:07Coffee is important.
06:09I don't know if we meet people in different lives, but I do feel it.
06:14I had that sensation and that's why I feel that that's a bar that is in so many beautiful
06:19songs.
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