VALÉ - bololo (2024)

Before you ask, the word 'bololo' is a slang term native to my hometown Barranquilla. we use it to describe a big mess, a brawl, something along those lines. but it can also mean a huge party that is just super out of control.When I was working on this track initially with The Fund, Mark Johns, and Kate Morgan, they asked if there were any cool spanish words we could write around. I obviously hopped on google and looked up Costeño slang (costeño is what people from Barranquilla are called!) and bololo came up - as you can see we went with it!I wanted the song to sound like what the word means - hence why the track is pretty crazy production-wise! I also decided to write about a crazy night, I just put myself in the shoes of someone who went out and had one of those nights where you end up in 6 different places, meet 3 people, become friends, and never see them again. I have personally never experienced anything like this so it was pretty fun to just dramatize what this whole ordeal would be like.We all had the most fun making and recording this song, there are so many little details hidden in it that make it so special, you just have to listen to it over and over again I guess! enjoy "bololo"!!!