Houston-raised, Los Angeles-based genre-bending artist Alaina Castillo reveals the music video for her current single “just a boy” exclusively via V Magazine. Upon the songs release, it held a top 5 spot on Spotify’s coveted New Music Friday playlist, has since accumulated over 2 million streams on Spotify alone and currently holds spots on Spotify’s Pop Rising, Fresh & Chill (cover), Chill Hits and Teen Beats, as well as Apple’s Breaking Pop and Breaking R&B. Click HERE to view!
“just a boy” was written by Alaina alongside Romans (Lewis Capaldi, Ella Mai, Demi Lovato, Khalid), her regular collaborator who also produced the track. The single is the first off her upcoming EP the voicenotesout this Friday, April 24th, which will be released in both English and Spanish (May 22nd), reflecting the bilingual nature of her music.
Earlier this month, Alaina, who is Spotify’s sole US RADAR artist of 2020, released her Spotify produced mini doc in conjunction with the program via Teen Vogue. The doc covers Alaina’s Mexican American heritage, her quick rise from YouTube covers in her parents house in Houston, to being discovered by Chosen People, working with Romans and moving to LA. The high-profile program has a commitment to support emerging artists around the world, further proving that she is an artist to watch.
“just a boy” follows Alaina’s most recent track “ocean waves” which was released last month via Complex. In just a week, the song amassed has over 2.3 million streams and received praise from Rolling Stone, Clashand Uproxx, among others.
The artist – who sings in both the English and Spanish language – combines her Latin roots with her love of R&B, pop and hip-hop, and has cultivated a diehard online following of over 1.7 million online fans and counting. She has 25 million streams to date, with almost 817K YouTube subscribers. Her first single “i don’t think i love you anymore,” released in October, has over 3.6 million YouTube views to date, with track “no importa,” taken from her debut EP antisocial butterfly, gaining half a million views in its first week.
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