Bellodrama (stylized in all lowercase) is the second studio album by Spanish singer Ana Mena, released on 24 March 2023 by Sony Music Spain.
The singer worked with a variety of producers and co-writers on the album, including Dabruk, Andrés Torres, Mauricio Rengifo, Takagi & Ketra, Federica Abbate, Zef and Marz, among others.
The album was preceded by the release of five singles between November 2021 and March 2023: "Música Ligera", "Las 12", "Un Clásico", "Me He Pillao x Ti" and "Lentamente".
[1] Although she ended up in the twenty-fourth out of twenty-five positions, the song peaked at number eighteen in Italy and received a gold certification by the Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana (FIMI).
Due to the success of the song in Italy, Mena released "Mezzanotte" in June 2022, which only peaked at number eighty-five in the country.
However, its Spanish version featuring Belinda became a summer anthem in Spain: "Las 12" peaked at number seven and has been certified six times platinum.
She also listed Katy Perry, La Oreja de Van Gogh and Luis Miguel as influences for the record.
"[8] The fourth track on the album, "Me He Pillao x Ti" (Spanish for "I've caught feelings for you"), a song in which Mena narrates an autobiographic story.
She added: "It's a song that captures the concept of Bellodrama and its dualism: you're crying in a site in which you're having an excellent time, and that world in which you always have to be perfect, elegant, and you have to give your best impression, but the truth is a different one."
For the album's eighth track, "Un Millón de Lunas" (Spanish for "a million moons"), Mena was inspired by Romeo Santos.
The ninth track, "Me Enamoro" (Spanish for "I fall in love"), has similarities with her smash-hit "A Un Paso de la Luna" because both songs came up around the same time.
Mena expressed that she intended to release the song earlier, but that it couldn't be possible because she changed producers amidst the creative process.
[10] Despite the song's upbeat sound, its lyrics are about a past love which is missed and remembered with spite and the emptiness that is felt after midnight.
Mena expressed that, even though she was used to having a more contemporary sound, she chose to record the song because she felt it as a tribute to the kind of music which emerged during the 1960s and first created a link between Italy and Spain.
Asier Duque of Flooxer wrote that "Bellodrama is a piece that gathers all the aspects that make Ana Mena nowadays a unique and recognizible artist," calling the album "the perfect mix between the music of Spain, Italy and Latin America.
"[15] In his review for Jenesaispop, Jordi Bardaji gave the album a score of 7.4 out of 10 and said: "Bellodrama is the all the fun and enjoyable we needed; gays, straights and everyone who is open to a well-done commercial pop record."
[14] Los 40's Mario Caridad Sánchez wrote that songs like "Música Ligera" and "Las 12" have marked the soundtracks of our lifetimes for ever.