“We love to make sad songs about heartbreak and love, and this is exactly that,” Frontera tells Rolling Stone
Gabito Ballesteros and Grupo Frontera aren’t ready to fall in love. On Thursday, the Texan band and música mexicana star linked up for “Pienso en Ella,” which hears the musicians simping over a girl that’s no longer in their lives.
“This is our first time working with Gabito which is really exciting because we admire each other’s work and have met several times already,” Grupo Frontera tells Rolling Stone. “We had a lot of fun creating the song together and shooting the video in Mexico with him.”
The video sees the five-piece getting ready for a party before Frontera’s Payo Solis sings the track’s breakup lyrics as his fellow bandmates try to cheer him up. “Don’t ask me to go out, because I think of her,” Solis sings, before Ballesteros joins, “Don’t introduce me to pretty girls because they’re not her. I want her.”
The Ballesteros collab follows Frontera’s linkups with Tito Double P on “Ay Mamá” and “Ángel,” which featured bachata icon Romeo Santos. The group released its sophomore album Jugando a Que No Pasa Nada back in May. “We love to make sad songs about heartbreak and love, and this is exactly that,” Frontera says of “Pienso En Ella.”
At the time, Frontera told Rolling Stone that they were exploring new “musical ideas” with their go-to songwriter and producer, Edgar Barrera, for the new album. “We were trying everything this time around,” percussionist Julian Peña said.
For his part, Gabito also joined the Tito Double P album on track “Detona,” and released a posthumous collaboration with Mexican music icon Joan Sebastian called “Bonus Track.” His fourth album, The GB, dropped in late May.
