Interestelar

About the song

«Interestelar» is a hip-hop love song by the Portuguese rapper Plutonio, one of the tracks on his album «Carta de Alforria», which his label Bridgetown released on 8 November 2024. The official video appeared on YouTube four days earlier, on 4 November, as a first taste of the record, together with a link to pre-save the album on Spotify. The track lasts a little over three minutes. According to the credits published with the video, the beat was produced by Charlie Beats, the post-production was done by Migz and Ariel, the mix and master by André Tavares, and the song was recorded at The Lx Studios.

The idea behind the song is simple and playful: seduction told in the language of astronomy and science fiction. The narrator presents himself as a visitor from another world, misunderstood by the people around him, a star that stays rather than a comet that passes. At night he is a vampire who comes to steal a heart; during the day he recommends sunglasses so that his light does not blind anyone. In the chorus he decides to step outside, climb into his spaceship and leave, and he says that the only place he wants to be is the private universe of the woman he is singing to. The images are romantic and openly sensual at the same time, and many of them carry a double meaning that Portuguese listeners recognise at once.

The second verse is a trip through the solar system. He promises to take her to Venus, says that for her he lives with NASA and its whole crew, and imagines the two of them walking over comets from Mercury to Pluto. The last planet is a small joke about his own stage name: «Plutão» is the Portuguese name of Pluto, and «plutónio» is the Portuguese word for plutonium, the chemical element named after that planet. Along the way come a battle among the stars, a supernova inside the head, a kind of physics that is really chemistry and an emergency landing, and at the end he tells her she can forget about her Uber, because he will give her a lift in his own spacecraft.

Not every image comes from space. The narrator compares himself to Romeo, but a Romeo with many Juliets; he says that each time he releases new music it sets off a butterfly effect; and he turns a well-known Christian plea for forgiveness into a boast about people who do not understand who they really are. He also insists that he is not here to chase fashions, because he trusts his own instinct. The track closes with a short spoken passage in English, in the calm voice of a science documentary, explaining what a black hole is: an area of the universe where matter is packed so tightly that nothing can get out again, not even light.