Xavier Herrero |
Madrid (EFE).- On the idea of a “futuristic dragon” Lola Índigo began to weave the scales of her third studio album, a more electronic work and with a more sexual point in which she has no qualms about showing herself as she is , “tacky” and empowered on the one hand, also sensitive under her armor to the “traumas” of the past.
“Sometimes they ask me if I purposely make feminist music or bisexual music. No, it’s that I’m a feminist and I’m bisexual and the songs come out that way”, he proclaims in a chat with EFE before a collection of 11 new songs that have emerged, he says, in a very free way, following his “instinct”.
They appear collected in an album titled “El Dragón” (Universal Music), which contains “as many colors” as producers and geographical points of writing, from Miami to Los Angeles, passing through London.
“Sometimes the songs have to go through 50 people to get what you want”, defends its author before a list made up of Andy Clay, Mauricio Rengifo and Andrés Torres, Big One, Sael or David Marley, to whose contributions she gave a last brushstroke Tunvao co-produced most of the album to give it cohesion.
New themes with collaborations
At his side there are also fellow singers such as Luis Fonsi, María Becerra, Emilia or Quevedo, with whom he now presents the song “El tonto”. “I have not seen a person who is better at making melodies. I met him one day in the studio and we went out partying a couple of times. Do you know when you meet someone and say that he is from your tribe? ”, He affirms before the chemistry that unites the Canarian rapper.
In “El Dragón” a greater electronic tone is clearly perceived in tracks like “Discoteka” or “An1mal” under influences such as “UK garage, David Guetta’s works from the 2000s, Calvin Harris’ ‘Bounce’ or the first Lady Gaga’s stage, that of ‘Poker Face’”.
Likewise, a more lubricious tone appears both in lyrics and rhythms, especially in sensual cuts like “Slow Motion” or more intense ones such as his proclamation in favor of a fluid sexual identity, “Las solteras”, which was born from an improvisation session.
“I’ve never had a problem talking about my sexuality in songs and here it’s true that both ‘La santa’ and ‘Las solteras’ are very loose,” she says with a laugh before acknowledging her predilection for the first of those songs. “It’s that she has my personality, because I’m like that, a bit tacky,” she says before bursting out laughing again.
“El Dragón”, the ballad of the album
In contrast, the song that closes the album and gives it its title, “El Dragón”, which could become the great ballad of his career after doing an exercise in emotional nakedness, is surprising.
“Everything that worries and hurts me is in that song. She literally goes through all my traumas, like when she says, ‘I didn’t knock, the door was open / I floated in, no one taught me not to sink.’ The thing about being Lola Indigo came to me. I arrived thinking that everything was a world of glitter and I had no help to explain to me how things were”, confesses the artist born Miriam Doblas (Madrid, 1992).
In this sense, he tells how his baptism in the field of composition was: “When ‘Operación Triunfo 2017’ finished, they gave us the opportunity to bring up a song. There were colleagues who were put with the best producers and they gave them songs that were already hits, something very deserved because they had a gigantic ‘fanbase’ that I didn’t have. So I had to look for life, find a producer who gave me a good vibe and learn to write”.
Since that first success that was “Ya No quiero ná” five years and three albums have passed with which the one who was first expelled from that contest feels consolidated as an interpreter and author, also as director of the project and its videos, “ cartoonist and even inventor” of the visuals of her concerts.
“I’m a control freak and it’s fine in its fair measure, although I’ve learned to manage time better, so that when I have 4 days I can be back to my personal life. It has been difficult for me to find that balance and now I am better than ever, ”she points out, before confessing that the secret is“ to have the people who love you close by ”.
Lola Indigo starts her new tour on May 6
She triumphs in a Spanish musical scene that has crowned more and more female soloists such as Rosalía, Aitana or Ana Mena, something that she attributes to the fact that “there is a little less misogyny, that very good quality things are being done” and to a previous generation of artists, such as Malú or La Mala Rodríguez (“My great reference for liberation”, he points out), “who paved the way to make everything easier”.
With all the capacity sold out, on May 6 he will begin his new tour with his second foray into the Wizink Center in Madrid after the great test that was the tour of “La Niña”.
“So supporting such a big show made me dizzy and things like getting on and off a cake was already a challenge. Now I have had to do even more difficult things to get horny again, ”she says before a“ show ”that promises more impressive.