“When I started out, I was much more positive,” Easykid tells Apple Music. “There was more positivity around me. It’s something that has hit me more as my career has progressed. Good things happen, but for some reason I sometimes act this way. It’s involuntary.” The Chilean artist has found a certain irony in that contradiction: The bigger the blessings, the greater the fear of losing them. On his fourth studio album soy un fatalista, Easykid explores that internal struggle, bringing insecurity, distrust, and fear of the present into conversation with anger and self-awareness in an attempt to finally close a chapter. “This album was made to release anger and intrusive thoughts—to break the cycle of doubt and self-sabotage once and for all,” the Antofagasta native says. “I’ve decided this will be the last time I make something this negative and personal.” More than ever, Easykid channels that frustration through the rock influences that shaped him growing up, from punk and nu metal to bands like Placebo and Deftones. “It made sense for the project to begin with a reggaetón track that feels very characteristic of what I’ve done before,” he says. “Then the traps and guitar samples start appearing until you reach the final track, which is fully alternative.” Here, Easykid breaks down some of the album’s key moments. “Y si peleamos” (feat. Kali Uchis) “This was one of the first songs I made, and it fit the concept perfectly. Even though it’s a really energetic reggaetón track, the lyrics still have traces of pessimism. I had the intro and chorus when the opportunity to work with Kali came up, so we sent her the demo. She came back with a verse that felt like a direct response to what I was saying. I wrote my verse after hearing hers, so the song became this back-and-forth conversation.” “Untitled Song” “It has this very 2000s guitar sample, and it feels super nostalgic. When I started making music, I was listening to a lot of punk and nu metal. I listened to Placebo all the time. This was one of the songs where the project started opening up to other genres. It also reinforces the idea of the album as a cycle, because I’m returning to the music that first made me fall in love with music.” “Nada” “I made this in Madrid. I had been there for a while doing nothing, and one day we decided to go back into the studio. I was carrying a lot of problems and worries, including some from the people around me. Then I heard this beat and just started spilling out everything I was thinking. I normally take a long time to record, but this came together really fast. Without realizing it, I was also discovering the concept of the album. It felt incredibly liberating.” “Bluyineo” (feat. J Balvin) “This was one of the milestones of the project. I’d been messaging Balvin since 2019, basically once a year, saying, ‘Hey, let’s make a song.’ Eventually he saw the messages and we started talking. For me, finally making it happen also feels like closing a cycle. I didn’t want a song with Balvin because of numbers or what it could do commercially. I wanted it because it was something I genuinely dreamed of. Having it on a project about releasing anger and moving forward felt perfect.” “Joven promesa” “This closes the project. It feels like a song I would have listened to when I was a kid, which is why it made sense for the album to begin with reggaetón and gradually arrive at the music I started with. That creates the feeling of closing a cycle. Lyrically, it’s about self-sabotage, regret, and trying not to dwell on the things you wanted to achieve but couldn’t. Sonically, it’s very Deftones—the guitar riff, the distortion, everything.”