KLK

## Audio

**KLK** is the eight track off of Venezuelean producer Arca’s album, “***KiCk i***”, It features singer ROSALÍA.

## Background

**KLK** is the first collaboration between Arca and Spanish singer-songwriter ROSALÍA. The song hears the artists celebrating how far they’ve both come in life, and how they pursued their lifelong dreams.

The artists first crossed paths in June 2018 at ROSALÍA’s show at Sónar Festival in Barcelona. During an Instagram livestream on June 21, 2020, they revealed how they quickly became friends and made **KLK** in 2019.

The song features straightforward, hard-hitting reggaeton beats, strongly influenced by Venezuelan traditional music, specifically the furruco, a friction drum that Arca played as a teenager.

## Lyrics

**[Chorus: ROSALÍA & Arca]**

I'm living life

Oh, how I wanted to

What's-, hard, what's up?

What's up?

Hard, what's-

I'm, I'm, I'm living life

Oh, how I wanted to

What's-, chi, chi, chi

Hard, what's up?

Hard, what's up?

What's-, hard, what's-, chi, chi, chi

**[Post-Chorus: ROSALÍA]**

If you have nothing left

You don't have nothing

If you have nothing left

You don't have nothing

**[Refrain: ROSALÍA & Arca]**

Blessed, blessed (Blessed)

We're blessed (Blessed)

Here with my Ale we're blessed (Blessed)

Blessed, blessed

You are blessed (Blessed)

Like that, you come to my side (Blessed)

We're blessed (Blessed)

Here, we're blessed

Blessed, blessed

Come on, ROSALÍA

Like that, you come to my side (Blessed)

**[Chorus: Arca & ROSALÍA]**

What's up?

What's-, hard, what's up?

Look how

What's-, hard, what's up?

Look how

Hard, what's-

Hard, what's up

What's-, what's up?

Hard, what's up

What's, what's, what's up?

**[Post-Chorus: ROSALÍA & Arca]**

Look how, look how (Hard)

Look how, look how (Hard)

Look, look how (Hard, hard, blessed)

Look how, look (Hard, hard)

What's, what's, what's up?

What's up, what is it you believe (Blessed)

What's, what is it you believe (Blessed)

What's up, what is it you believe

What's, what is it you believe (Blessed)

Come on, come on, come on

Come on, come on

Come on, come on, come on

Let's go

Come on, come on

**[Refrain: ROSALÍA & Arca]**

Blessed, blessed (Blessed)

We're blessed (Blessed)

Here with my Ale we're blessed (Blessed)

Blessed, blessed

You are blessed (Blessed)

Like that, you come to my side (Blessed)

We're blessed (Blessed)

Here, we're blessed

Blessed, blessed

Come on, ROSALÍA

Like that, you come to my side (Blessed)

**[Chorus: Arca & ROSALÍA]**

What's up

Look, look

What's-, hard, what's up?

Look, look

What's-

**[Post-Chorus: ROSALÍA]**

If you believe nothing, nothing

Don't believe nothing, nothing

If you believe nothing, nothing

Don't believe nothing, nothing

If you believe nothing, nothing

Don't believe nothing, nothing

If you believe nothing, nothing

Don't believe nothing, nothing

**[Bridge: Arca & ROSALÍA]**

Sandungueo, sandungueo

Sandungueo, sandungueo

Sandungueo, sandungueo

Sandungueo, sandungueo

Sandungueo, sandungueo

Sandungueo, sandungueo

Sandungueo, sandungueo

Chi, chi, chi, chi

Ro-rom-po-po-pom

Rom-po-po-pom-rom, rom, rom

Chiquitichichi rom, rom, rom-po-po-pom

Rom-po-po-pom-pom

Chiquiti, chiquiti, chiquiti

Look how

Chi, chi, chi, chi

I'm living life

Oh, how I wanted to

What's up?

Hard, what's up?

Chiquitichi

What's up?

Hard, what's-

Look how, look how, look how, look how

Look how, look how, look how, look how

**[Chorus: Arca & ROSALÍA]**

What's up, hard, what's up? (Blessed)

What's-, hard, what's-, chi, chi, chi (Blessed)

What's-, hard, what's up? (Blessed)

**[Interlude: Arca]**

The earth is shaking really hard

In this moment

I want to see everyone shaking their hips

**[Post-Chorus: ROSALÍA]**

Look how, look how (Hard)

Look how, look how (Hard)

Look how, look how (Hard, hard)

Look how, look how (Hard, hard)

**[Outro: ROSALÍA & Arca]**

I'm living life

Oh, how I wanted to

How I wanted to

I'm living life

Oh, how I wanted to

How I wanted to

## Composition

The track was first recorded in Barcelona on September 17, 2018 and was lyric empty. Since the Spanish singer was promoting her second studio album in Madrid and Miami, her vocals were sent to the Venezuelan musician through a WhatsApp voice note. Thus, the song has partly been recorded using an iPhone. "KLK" was also produced by Venezuelan musician and Arca's high school friend Luis Garban, who records under the stage name Cardopusher.

About "KLK", Arca explains that it is inspired by traditional Venezuelan music, specifically an instrument called furruco: “Venezuelan music has always been with me, and I am grateful that I have studied some of the typical styles of Venezuelan music. I always think of the furruco when I program a subbass. It is an indigenous instrument of Venezuela that is played with friction, you rub a stick hooked from the leather of a large drum and it has a super infra sub bass, it marks the pulse of the gaita, a style of music typical of Venezuela".

## Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal.

* Alejandra Ghersi – producer, composer
* Rosalía – lyricist
* Cardopusher – producer, composer
* Alex Epton – mixer, studio personnel

## Track listing

* **Digital download – streaming**

1. "KLK" – 3:47
2. "KLK" (Instrumental) – 3:47