Miss pop
April 15, 2020

Stereogum Album of the week: Lido Pimienta's 'Miss Colombia' - "ambitious and amazing industrial reggaeton"

"The most uniquely stirring pop music in recent memory" - Stereogum writes in a review of Colombian-Canadian singer Lido Pimienta's new album, which also mixes folk genres with modern and orchestral production. Songs at 'Miss Colombia' "brilliantly deconstruct and reimagine the country’s signature sounds" with "powerfully original music, refracting the cultures that formed her through the prism of her own inspiration". Pimienta described the album as "a cynical love letter to Colombia", a stand taken after a mishap at the 2015 Miss Universe when the name of Miss Colombia was read as the winner when actually it was Miss Philipines who won.