Puerto Rican-born, London-based artist Ivelisse Del Carmen returns with her most daring and personal single yet, โSin Filtro,โ released on September 19th, 2025. With her classical training, Caribbean rhythm, and lyrical storytelling, Ivelisse goes beyond genre. This track boldly reclaims reggaeton, a genre she grew up with but was often told to suppress in 90s Puerto Rico. With it are blended orchestral strings, Spanish guitar, and operatic flourishes. Produced by Paul Stanborough, who has previously worked with Tina Turner and Kylie Minogue, โSin Filtroโ confronts identity, fear, and vulnerability with music.
The song opens like a film score, with cinematic strings that immediately draw you into its world. Then comes Ivelisseโs stunning soprano vibrato, almost otherworldly in its ethereal clarity. Just as the listener is carried away by her soulful operatic belting, the energy shifts, beats kick in with a pulsing reggaeton rhythm, and her delivery flips into a nonchalant, hypnotic flow. This cool, almost smug tone contrasts sharply with her soaring vocals, creating a dialogue between vulnerability and defiance. We get to experience her bicultural voice too as she sings in both English and Spanish, and creates a duality in the inference.
Unveiling much with her lines, she sings, โMy ego, the spider, afraid to get hurt.โ The metaphor is rich, as her ego becomes something delicate, weaving webs of protection, and ending up trapping itself in fear. With poetic imagery comes through the vulnerabilities and showcases how self-doubt tangles with the courage to be open.
As the track builds, her operatic voice layers with her cooler tones and creates a cathartic bridge, like an internal battle laid bare. The climax surges with passion and embodies the very spirit of being sin filtro.
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Review by: Naomi Joan