Something shifted within Paloma Mami when she turned 25, she said — referring to the age at which the average human’s frontal lobe, the part of the brain that manages one’s decision-making process, becomes fully developed.

“One day I woke up and decided to change my life [by] 360 degrees,” she told The Times in a recent audio call from Chile, where she is currently located. “No joke, I thought [frontal lobe development] was a myth, but I started seeing things so differently and I didn’t understand why. I’m just transforming.”

That transformation is most audible in Paloma Mami’s latest studio album release, “Códigos de Muñeka,” an 11-track project that catapults the urban singer into a new era of womanhood — one that radiates wisdom, confidence and bodily autonomy in spite of a growing

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