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He flees from the mantra of
drugs, violence and money
, but
Albany
(1997),
Alba Casas's
alter ego
, is one of the queens of
trap
in Spain.
Her melancholic lyrics, born "in the bathroom or scrubbing the floor", have made her a benchmark in
sad trap
, a subgenre from which she has tried to escape a complicated reality.
What he does not do without is the
Autotune
, a tool that, he points out, he likes too much "because you manage to sound angelic."
Born in Girona and raised in Granada, Albany has just released
Final Fantasy Love
, a preview single from her new mixtape.
The work, which will see the light in the coming weeks, brings together for the first time
C Tangana
and
Yung Beef
, protagonists of the greatest
beef
in urban music.
QUESTION. Do you like that the term sad trap is so closely linked to your music?
ANSWER.
It is a bit contradictory.
I have like love-hate because there is a very fine line between making sad music to help people or to make them worse.
Nor do I want to be responsible for anyone's sadness.
Then I notice that other artists see it as something cool and try to imitate it and that's where my pride stings, and says: no, I'm the one doing this.
What consoles me is that it is real and that I cannot help it because it comes naturally to me.
P. It is striking that being a trap artist, do not brag about money, brands or being "the worst", when that is what is fashionable
R.
Because I am a very basic girl, very simple, and I don't see the point in showing off those things.
It seems silly to me.
Why do you have to brag about money or something to really believe it?
If I have money, I don't show it off and I don't show it;
I spend it and period.
What's more, it is better if no one knows the money you have.
I don't know, I don't understand the trap, really.
Q. Have you ever felt pressure to be a benchmark among young people?
A.
It depends on the moment.
I try not to think about it too much, go to my ball and not get affected, because I think you go a little crazy.
Q. I find the inflexible defense you make against drugs interesting
R.
My move with drugs is that I have had them very close as a child, within my family.
I've seen it and I know it's not cool.
And, of course, if your music reference is a junkie, he is cool with drugs and it makes you look like something nice, because people - who are children - are going to believe you.
But that person is going to say it because he is high and does not know what he is saying.
The drug does not seem cool to me, it only brings ruin and bad things.
And I don't like that in a music industry it is sold as something cool like: yeah, get high because it's great.
No. I would also like tomorrow, if I have more power or many more people listen to me, to help with other messages.
There are many wrong messages in music.
Q. What other wrong messages do you see?
R.
Well, macho.
About women, about how to deal with a relationship ... Things like that.
Machismo and drugs is what there is most in music.
I don't even tell you in trap or reggaeton, in all music.
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Q. How do you think the public sees you?
R.
I do not know, each one will see me differently.
Some will see me as a fucking mistress and they will like me very well, others will see me as very tender and others, a conceited one.
That depends on the person looking at it.
But at a general level, the people who support me think they see me as I show myself: natural.
Q. Tell me about your new job, what is different about it?
R.
That I have not pigeonholed myself into a label - so to speak - of sad music, but rather that I have opened up to show my versatility and say: look, I can make a dark reggaeton, a more pop song, more cheerful ... I have tried new things although I keep my style sad and such so as not to change my brand.
Q. How did the collaborations with C. Tangana and Yung Beef come about?
R.
With Fernando (Yung Beef) it came out very natural because we had already talked about it.
I made a song with him for him and he made another for me.
Then came Pucho (C. Tangana) and he was interested.
I already had it closed, it had eight songs.
He said, hey, I'd like you to put it on the mixtape.
And I said: well, fucking mother.
P. There is a lot of expectation with these collaborations for the famous
beef
between the two
A.
Yes, because, well, people like these two know ... and they have never done anything together.
They haven't seen them in the same bag, so to speak, and suddenly I arrive, I'm a random person, like: hi, I'm going to release my mixtape and the two collaborations are those.
Well, it's strong.
It has also impacted me, but the best of all is that I have not looked for it, it has emerged alone.
It was as if God had said: come, take, this for you.
Q. How do you understand the industry? Are you sure if you want to stay independent, sign for a multinational ...?
R.
No, I would like to be the owner of my music, do it well and have nothing more, nothing less.
What you need to be comfortable.
Finding a balance that neither I am going to steal from anyone and nobody is going to steal from me.
Have my trusted team, do it well and that's it.
Q. I read in an old interview that you had stage fright. Are you still having a hard time when you get on stage?
A.
Stage fright came to me when I was very young because I suffered bullying.
At school I was bullied a lot for being a gypsy, for being dark skinned, for being poor ... A lot of things.
So, of course, when people mess with you and you are being abused in that way, you don't want anyone to see you and you kind of hide and you don't want to attract attention.
You don't want anyone to see you because you already think they are going to laugh at you.
So I never wanted to stand out.
I remember that in class it was very difficult for me to even get up to throw a piece of paper in the trash can and walk past everyone.
It's just that he didn't.
Or get up to go to the bathroom.
I wasn't doing it because I didn't want anyone to see me.
That created a very heavy movement in my head and when I started making music I said: damn it, not everyone hates me, there are people who don't.
Then little by little it is taking away from you.
Q. Do you already feel that you are a 100% artist?
R.
Little by little.
People tell me: you have to believe it more.
But yes, I am an artist.
I am.
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