Okay, y’all… drop whatever you’re doing and press play on Angélica Garcia’s new single “BUTTERFLY” right now. I’m not exaggerating when I say this track hit me like a glitter-soaked freight train at 3 a.m. in the best possible way.
Fresh off the critically adored Gemelo (her 2024 album that had NPR, Rolling Stone, and pretty much every cool publication losing their minds), Angélica is back and fully independent for the first time. And “BUTTERFLY” feels like the moment she rips the leash off completely.
Teaming up with legends Dave Sitek (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio) and Ciel (Pop Smoke, H.E.R.), she’s built a whole new world: a cyborg Latino sonic universe where industrial ballroom slams into glitch-hop, Spanglish flows like champagne, and magical realism is the dress code.
The beat? Aggressively sexy. We’re talking distorted reggaeton kicks that sound like they were born in a Bushwick warehouse, layered with icy synth stabs and these warped vocal chops that feel straight out of an Arca fever dream. Then the chorus floats in—delicate, almost fragile—like a butterfly landing on a switchblade. That push-and-pull between tenderness and menace is the entire thesis of the song.
Lyrically, Angélica is honoring the club girls and staff she worked alongside when she briefly danced at Brooklyn’s iconic House of Yes (yes, THAT House of Yes). She calls them “keepers of magic” and celebrates the insane personal power it takes to show up in six-inch pleasers, flawless makeup, and a smile while navigating the chaos and occasional violence of late-night club life. “To be a BUTTERFLY means to live and express as a highly actualized version of self,” she says, and you can feel every ounce of that reverence in her delivery.
But the metaphor runs deeper. For Angélica, butterflies also represent Latino and immigrant communities in the U.S.—these radiant, resilient beings that migrate thousands of miles, facing predators and borders, yet still show up in full color. It’s giving beauty forged in fire, courage dipped in glitter. I got chills the first time the Spanish verses hit because it feels like she’s whispering a secret directly to our gente.
Musically, this is Latin pop on steroids—electro-clash attitude, synthpop shimmer, and a perreo-ready backbone that makes it impossible to stay seated. If Rosalía, Arca, and Bad Bunny threw a warehouse rave in Blade Runner, “BUTTERFLY” would be the closing anthem.
Honestly, Angélica Garcia has been one of the most exciting voices in experimental Latin pop / alt-Latino / whatever box we’re trying to shove her into for years now, and “BUTTERFLY” feels like the moment she fully mutates into whatever next-level creature she’s becoming. Gemelo was gorgeous, but this? This is her stepping into full main-character energy.
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Stream “BUTTERFLY” everywhere now → https://found.ee/agBUTTERFLY
So… what did you think? Is this your new club anthem? Are we crying in the Uber home to this later? Drop your thoughts below, share it with your friends who need some bilingual industrial ballroom realness in their life, and let’s keep the conversation going.
Angélica Garcia just raised the bar again. Who’s catching these wings?
