“Caramelo Duro” by Miguel (featuring Kali Uchis)
Anyone familiar with Miguel’s album “War & Leisure”, from which this track (“Caramelo Duro”) is derived, knows that it features songs such as “Banana Clip” whose lyrics metaphorically allude to hot sex. And so it is with “Caramelo Duro”, a track whose title translates to “hard candy”.
So what we are met with in these lyrics is the mention of various candy brands and other such lingo related to the enjoyment of sweets. As such, the wording for the most part isn’t actually raunchy. But any mature adult would be able to ascertain that when a singer like Miguel mentions “hard candy” in relation to romance, then most likely what he would be referring to, most simply put, is something like having an er-ction.
The bridge is the one part of the song, if you understand Spanish, in which it becomes more blatantly obvious that what is being referred to here is in fact a “dirty” kind of sweetness.
Facts about “Caramelo Duro”
“Caramelo Duro” is a song recorded and performed by American singer Miguel, featuring vocals from Colombian-American recording artist Kali Uchis. This song can be found on Miguel’s fourth studio offering titled “War & Leisure”, which officially dropped on December 1 of 2017.
“Caramelo Duro” features writing credits from Uchis and its producers, Miguel and Steve Mostyn.
The title of this track is in Spanish. If you were to translate it into English it would mean, “Hard Candy”.
Miguel’s “War & Leisure” Album
Miguel released “War & Leisure” as a follow-up to his 2015 album “Wildheart”. This project, which was accompanied by three singles, was issued by record labels RCA Records and ByStorm. The first and second singles were both released prior to the album’s official release.
The first single, “Sky Walker”, was issued on August 24 2017. This song, which is the biggest track on the album, features vocals from American rapper Travis Scott.
“Told You So” is the project’s second single, and it came out on November 3 of 2017. The final single, being “Come Through and Chill”, was made public on April 10, the following year. On this single, Miguel collaborated with American rapper J. Cole and record producer Salaam Remi.
“War & Leisure” performed very well in the US. There, it hit #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. However, it failed to achieve the same or similar success in other regions. The album only managed a peak position of #92 on the main albums chart in the United Kingdom.
For its performance in the United States, the project received Gold certification from the RIAA on January 24 of 2019. This is in reflection of the album recording over 500,000 in sales copies in the US.
NOTE: “Caramelo Duro” wasn’t released as a single from this project.
