Silvia García Herráez |
Madrid (EFE).- After going through a “darker” stage with his previous album “Iceberg” (2020), Miki Núñez recovers in his new album “121” “the freshness, the positive energy and the summery and danceable rhythms” that are so characteristic to sing to “chemical love”.
“To all people, what should move us is love, not only for the couple, but also to treat others well. Coming out of the pandemic I was very happy and captured all the good moments in my life that had been thanks to love. And searching I saw that chemical love lasts exactly 121 days, that’s why I called the album that, to remember my exes, ”he told EFE in an interview.
Núñez (Tarrasa, Barcelona, 1996) also explains that his third album can be read as a “piddling number that marks the balance of relationships”.
“When there is no rancor, there is no hatred and a prejudice is not made quickly. If people only noticed the things they like, the world would be much better. And that is what I want to extol with this album, apart from telling other stories that I had saved”, explains the artist, who wants to show the public how “beautiful” life is when you say what you want with your heart.
Disc with different musical registers
With 12 songs, “121” (Universal Music) does not focus exclusively on a single musical genre, but its lyrics loaded with “good vibes” combine different registers such as festival pop in “Cu-cupido” or a more ska style with “The 7 evils”.
In the same way, he continues his trail of mixing Spanish with Catalan in “Llums de Mitjanit” together with Mariona Escoda, a composition that honors his land, his language and his roots, showing the evolution of the artist, while in “Electricitat” he allies with his friend Alfred García.
“The collaboration with him came about very organically. We are both very close friends since we left Operación Triunfo. He helped me a lot when I went to Eurovision and we compose for other people. So one day in the studio, here in Madrid, we said: ‘Hey, why don’t we do a song together?’” He recalls the origin of this track.
Apart from singing about love and heartbreak, the album also includes a farewell song for a loved one. “I wanted to talk about death but in a beautiful way, that didn’t hurt,” she says.
The tour begins on June 30 in Barcelona
“Tell me it doesn’t hurt” is the song that closes the album and was originally going to be dedicated to her grandmother for the terrible back pain she has suffered throughout her life due to the “beatings she received when she was young man, the gentleman of a farmhouse”.
Finally, he indicates, it is dedicated to his uncle who died of cancer just the same day the song was published. “So you can see what fate is like,” he says.
Núñez, who combines his career as a musician with that of presenter of the program “Eufòria” on TV3, confesses that he already has songs composed for the next album. “It’s just that I write as it comes to me and I feel at the moment, I can’t stop,” he laughs.
In the absence of confirming the final dates, on June 30 at the Sant Jordi Club (Barcelona) the start of the tour will begin with all the collaborators of the album, such as Alfred, Carlos Sadness, Paula Koops and Mariona Escoda.