“Mariposa” by Peach Tree Rascals

"Mariposa", Spanish for butterfly, is the song that got the Bay Area collective Peach Tree Rascals noticed, released on August 28, 2019 through Homemade Projects and 10K Projects. It grew out of member Joseph Barros's love of guitar, the skeleton came together in not much more than a day, and they recorded it in a wooden shed. The group credit Yosemite National Park with a big part in how it came about, and the title points two ways, to Mariposa Grove and to metamorphosis, the growing-up-as-a-person kind. Francis Salamanca, a friend of Dominic Pizano's, supplied the saxophone outro.

Then TikTok got hold of it: more than 1.6 million videos used it, and it climbed to number 2 on Billboard's Hot Alternative Songs chart. An acoustic version followed in July 2020.

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