Xavier Herrero |
Madrid (EFE).- Surrounded by great expectation due to the self-inflicted silence since her third place in Eurovision 2022, Chanel finally proudly wears her “Clavaíto”, a bachata that unites her with Abraham Mateo and that could become the theme of the summer while concludes a first album that will not contain only cuts to dance.
“A ballad doesn’t scare me and in fact I love them. In this sense, I will say that I am going to show off vocally on my album”, she anticipates to EFE in an interview in which she is very cautious when it comes to giving more clues about her long-awaited recording debut with Sony Music.
He does not even dare to say where he is. “I am learning and I see that things change every day, but yes, according to my plans, it will be released in 2023”, says Chanel (Havana, 1991), “very confident” in all the material that she has gathered.
He also reserves whether “Toke” will be part of his repertoire, the song he released in November as a musical accompaniment for the Spanish soccer team at the Qatar World Cup, but he shares that “Clavaíto” will not be the only novelty that his followers they will be able to enjoy in a period as short as “May”.
“I am super pleased and happy with the reception that the song has had”, she affirms with a smile that is already a trademark of the house and before a song that after only a week on the street already accounts for almost half of the reproductions of the aforementioned soccer anthem. .
According to his account, it arose after a call from Abraham Mateo, a partner currently on the television program “Cover Night”, to see what would come of working together in the studio. “That morning I woke up thinking that I wanted to do a bachata and, speaking, we found that clavaito word that we frayed until we found the story”, he recalls.
“Clavaíto” has also made it possible to put an end to the months of drought, since far from what the current marketing laws would advise, after her triumphant passage through Eurovision 2022, Chanel decided not to lavish herself too much, neither in the media nor musically.
“I have not stopped, another thing is that it is not seen. I was looking for what I want to be, because in the end I come from being an actress and playing many roles, but I had to decide which one is mine”, she argues before this semi-retirement from public life to discover herself as a singer.
He acknowledges that he has not lacked proposals to appear in the spotlight. “I have attention deficit and I have to do a lot of exercise to concentrate. It is not that I considered the rest as distractions, but the process I was in was different and I wanted to do it with everything I have, ”she argues.
“I have not tried to separate myself from Eurovision”
The Spanish-Cuban affirms that she would not change anything from the last year. “I am very proud of how I took everything and how I have grown. If I look back, I still see that smiling, energetic, excited and companion Chanel, but also a more concentrated, mature and learned one. Even more empathetic ”, she underlines.
Do you also empathize with the voracity of the public? “Yes, I have been since day one. I cannot be more transparent and that is why I am meme meat, ”she assumes with a laugh.
“The current moment in society is one of very fast information and it is reflected in music. I dont think is bad. What seems wrong to me is that when the artist needs another process, that is distorted. You have to understand that art is made up of different people and that it is born from different places, that some take 5 years to make a record while others release one single after another”, he insists after having rebelled “inadvertently” against the urgent current dynamics.
He regrets that a good part of the public’s susceptibilities are extreme before female artists. “You will never see how two men are compared or confronted with each other”, denounces who did suffer these comparisons during her time at the European festival and who has now become an apparent benchmark for other artists in the next edition who They have incorporated two separate “dance breaks” into their performances, as she did in an iconic way.
“I don’t know if it’s because of last year or, if we talk to them, it turns out that they had been thinking about this proposal for years. In any case, they are artists and they do it incredible, ”she says before declaring her full support for her successor as Spanish representative, Blanca Paloma, and declaring her her favorite along with the Finnish candidate, Käärijä.
Chanel will not be in one of the numbers out of competition in which three former representatives of 2022 will participate. “Neither I nor my team ever received an invitation. If it were up to me, she would be distributing mango juice everywhere, but life is what it is, ”she specifies in the face of insistent comments that she is the one who tries to separate herself from what was her springboard to her music.
“I have not tried to disassociate myself from Eurovision. If I had to sit down and deny everything that has been said about me… Luckily I am clear about who I am, ”she stresses without losing her smile.