Guitarricadelafuenteand Troye Sivan are linking up again. On Thursday, the Spanish star (real name: Álvaro Lafuente) released a remix of his Spanish Leather single “Pipe Dream.”
“Closing the circle with Troye has been an incredible experience. Being the only feature on each other’s albums feels deeply meaningful to me,” Lafuente said in a press release. “In many ways, ‘Pipe Dream’ picks up where ‘In My Room’ left off — drifting further into that intimate space, leaving the listener suspended in a dreamlike state.”
The Really Sorry–directed video opens with Lafuente floating in the ocean, diving beneath the surface, then getting up from bed, reading a book, and smoking a pipe. He’s later seen on a patio, staring into the sun, before he’s captured with snails crawling across his body.
Troye Sivan’s voice enters halfway through as caterpillars chew through a half-eaten watermelon, right before Guitarricadelafuente‘s and Sivan’s voices join in on the chorus. The video closes with Lafuente playing with a sword on the beach.
“Do you want to wake up from this pipe dream?/This thing you give me, I like it,” they sing in Spanish. “Little things from youth fashion/This thing you give me, I like it.”
”Pipe Dream” marks the second time the Spanish and Australian music stars connect on a track. Sivan welcomed Lafuente on Something to Give Each Other track “In My Room.” It was the only collaboration on the project. (While headlining Primavera Sound in Spain, Sivan rocked a “Full Time Papi” shirt in honor of his Spanish friend.)
On Lafuente part, “Pipe Dream” with Sivan follows the May release of his second album, Spanish Leather, which featured his fan-favorite singles, “Full Time Papi” and “Babieca.”
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“With Spanish Leather, I wanted the songs to be more contemporary, more grounded in what I witness on a day-to-day basis, and to capture a generational moment through these stories,” he told Rolling Stone in May. “I spent a few weeks in New York and Los Angeles, mainly in L.A., working with Carter Lang at his studio, at his home. I had this idea that what I was making was very Spanish. And suddenly, people from other countries, even without understanding the language, were connecting to the music, to its energy and that’s been really interesting. “
From Rolling Stone US
