Tu falta de querer

"Tu falta de querer"
Single by Mon Laferte
from the album Mon Laferte Vol.1
Released14 October 2015 (2015-10-14)
Recorded2014
Genre
Length4:39
LabelUniversal
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Mon Laferte
Mon Laferte singles chronology
"Amor Completo"
(2015) 		"Tu falta de querer"
(2015) 		"Si tú me quisieras"
(2016)
Music video
"Tu falta de querer" on YouTube

"Tu falta de querer" (Spanish for Your lack of loving) is a song by Chilean and Mexican singer Mon Laferte released in 2015, through Universal Music Group as part of her third studio album Mon Laferte Vol.1. The song was written and produced by Laferte.[1]

Background

At the time of writing this song, Laferte went through depression caused by the rupture of the relationship with her partner, which led her to think about suicide.[2] As she explained in an interview: "I wrote about how I felt and walked there the melody as spinning in my head".[2]

On 30 August 2014, Laferte launched through her official YouTube account the first version of the song, in which we see the singer-songwriter next to her guitar performing the song acoustically in her living room.[3] It was performed with the help of her friends, who recorded this version of the song with the phone, and one of them asked if she could upload it to YouTube, to which Laferte replied: "if no one is going to see it." Soon this video became increasingly popular with respect to the rest of the videos on its channel.[2] It currently has over 513 million views.[3]

On 31 January 2015, she released the album Mon Laferte Vol. 1, which includes the song. On August 21 of that same year, the album was relaunched and remastered, this time through Universal Music, where a new version of "Tu Falta de Querer" was included, which was differentiated by the change of a guitar solo by piano one.

Music video

The video was released on 14 October 2015, through the Laferte's VEVO channel, becoming a trend and one of the most-watched videos of a Chilean singer. As of January 2020, it reached over 320 million views on the YouTube platform, this being its first VEVO Certified.[4]

The music video juxtaposes funeral and wedding imagery, showing Mon Laferte dressed as a bride, accompanied by a funerary march, on a tour of the Cerro de San Pedro in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, finally being burned in effigy as she sings the final chorus in tears.

Personnel

Credits adapted from Mon Laferte Vol.1 liner notes.[1][5]

Vocals

Musicians

  • Manuel Soto – piano, synthesizer
  • Daniel Martinez – drums
  • David Rodríguez – saxophone
  • Santiago Lara – guitar
  • Jimmy Frazier – bass
  • Patricio Garcia Portius – electric guitar
  • Néstor Varela – trombone
  • Joe D'Ettiene – trumpet

Production

  • Mon Laferte – production
  • Benjamín Castro – mixing

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for "Tu falta de querer"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Mexico (AMPROFON)[15] 3× Diamond+Gold 930,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ^ a b Mon Laferte Vol.1 (album liner notes). Mon Laferte. Universal Music. 2015. Back cover.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. ^ a b c E. Ortega, S. Rivas (26 February 2017). ""Tu falta de querer": la desgarradora historia detrás de la canción más triste de Mon Laferte". La Tercera. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  3. ^ a b YouTube (30 August 2014), Mon Laferte - Tu Falta De Querer, retrieved 11 January 2020
  4. ^ Cooperativa.cl. "Mon Laferte exhibió premios que ha cosechado el último tiempo". Cooperativa.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  5. ^ "Album Mon Laferte, Mon Laferte | Qobuz: download and streaming in high quality". Qobuz. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  6. ^ "Chile Top 20 General - Del 10 al 16 de Abril, 2017". Monitor Latino (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 December 2019.
  7. ^ "Chile Top 20 Pop - Del 13 al 19 de Marzo, 2017". Monitor Latino (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  8. ^ "Mexico Top 20 General (Audience) - Del 8 al 14 de Febrero, 2016". Monitor Latino (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  9. ^ "Mexico Top 20 Pop - Del 25 al 31 de Enero, 2016". Monitor Latino (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  10. ^ Monitor Latino. "Chile General – Top 100 Chart anual". charts monitorLATINO (in Spanish).
  11. ^ Monitor Latino. "Chile Pop – Top 100 Chart anual". charts monitorLATINO (in Spanish).
  12. ^ Monitor Latino. "Nicaragua Pop – Top 100 Chart anual". charts monitorLATINO (in Spanish).
  13. ^ Monitor Latino. "Chile General – Top 100 Chart anual". charts monitorLATINO (in Spanish).
  14. ^ Monitor Latino. "Chile Pop – Top 100 Chart anual". charts monitorLATINO (in Spanish).
  15. ^ "Certificaciones" (in Spanish). Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Retrieved 25 October 2019. Type Mon Laferte in the box under the ARTISTA column heading and Tu Falta De Querer in the box under the TÍTULO column heading.