Isabel LaRosa, Pretty Boy | Song Review 🎵

Gen-Z Cuban American pop singer/songwriter  Isabel LaRosa is obsessed with this fine boy in her brief but entertaining, engaging, and relatable single, “Pretty Boy.”

“Iwant your name forever / Behind mine.” Isabel LaRosa is thinking about marriage, before she turns 20 years old! The Gen-Z, Cuban American pop musician has a “Pretty Boy” in mind.  Can you blame her? With the help of her older brother, Thomas LaRosa, they penned this boy-loving pop joint. Thomas, alongside Lucas Sim, produced it. Brief, just clocking past the two-minute mark, Isabel speaks her peace about this pretty boy.  There’s trouble in relationship paradise, though…

“Boy, I’m holding on for life…” Oh, dear, Isabel! The negativity is ‘negativing’ in the first verse: “Angry words… / Feel their worst… / When we try it one more time.” Hmm, can they successfully reunite? In the second verse, LaRosa remains perturbed, while singing with a breathy tone: “Watch me cry, drowning eyes / Are you running from the truth?” Legit question, you nameless pretty boy she is referencing. The chorus is the centerpiece, where Isabel implores him to be hers, again!

“Baby, be my pretty boy (Pretty boy, pretty boy)

I’m so obsessed, it’s not a choice (Not a choice, not a choice)

I’m melting when I hear your voice

I belong to you.”

Oh, snap, it’s serious! All told Isabel LaRosa drops a short but sweet pop bop with “Pretty Boy”. We buy what she’s selling. Besides her breathy, fierce, and indulgent vocals (she wants him!), the instrumental backdrop is sweet too. Set in a minor key, with dark, rhythmic vibes, “Pretty Boy” is the stuff (pretty boys, too).

Isabel LaRosa // “Pretty Boy” // Slumbo Labs / RCA // 8.16.24

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