You know those guys that act all sweet and nice, but really are just total jerks. KiNG MALA’s new single "Golden Retriever Boy” details discovering someone’s true colors. With a bellowing baseline, vibrant synths and soulful vocals the song is so charismatic. She sings, “Does your skin zip up like a sweater/ Just like a good boy you’re so clever.” She is calling him out for putting up a front and is sick of the B.S.
The Los Angeles-based alternative-soul talent crafts songs with compelling themes of lust, sexuality and femininity. Wearing her heart on her sleeve, each of her releases is so emotive and intimate. KiNG MALA’s aka Areli Castro chose that unique moniker as it roughly translates in Spanish to “bad bitch”. Within her confident tracks she displays over and over that the title is well deserved. This bold tune is another example of that fierce energy shining through. Castro explains, “It's about the sweet boy turning out to be the villain. It's about betrayal and watching someone fall from the pedestal you put them on. It's also about fuck boys… fuck fuck boys."
