When her first song, Canción de pop de amor, had barely been on Spotify for a few weeks, record companies began knocking on
Cariño
's door .
Because this trio, which has ended
up resurrecting the tontipop
inaugurated by Los fresones rebels, was born to be mainstream with no intermediate scale.
Since its inception through a dating app they have come to Coachella, they have a dozen indie festivals for this summer and they are the image of La Prohibida Cider in just four years.
Without knowing it, that conversation in 2013 between Paola Rivero and María Talaverano on Wapa, a lesbian dating app, would end up being the seed of their group.
“In the end we met there, but there were mutual friends and we listened to similar music.
We were predestined, we were going to meet the same in Madrid
», they acknowledge.
They just needed a bass player.
And watching a concert he appeared to them.
It was Alicia Ros.
Cariño was born and his career was already launched.
"The pace we were in was not healthy.
We got into a lot of trouble.
We played and went out every day.
Now we have found a healthy balance
», Paola points out about the pre-pandemic era in which Pop Love Song, Bisexual or her version of Crying in the limo were born.
Although there was neither slime nor glamor there, only Vespino and precariousness.
«We had that life, we talked about what we live and there we were like poor.
We didn't do it on purpose.
Precariousness is within us and we talk about what we feel
».
And what they feel, in part, is hate.
«
We only write from hate because to hate a lot and cry a lot is to feel something.
When you don't feel as much is when you write worse
», explains Alicia.
And the recipient of that hate tends to be the same: a guy.
“We still exaggerate the bad qualities of that person to write with more hate, but we have found a lot of idiotic machirulo,” she concludes.
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In case it was not clear, they themselves strive to remember that there are no filters in this group.
«We are not looking to make a protest song.
We don't think about the message that much.
We do not focus on thinking about what we are going to talk about.
It goes out and we don't stop it
».
Why do it if the formula is working at the moment.
Because in addition to finishing playing in California on the Coachella stage, they are already preparing an album for the fall.
They, who when the Covid arrived, thought that success could end.
«
That fear was there because many new groups were coming out and the scene was going to be different.
We weren't used to standing still.
We were missing something.
We were sad and we did not meet.
But here we are”, says Maria.
«Sometimes I think that if we are all going to dedicate ourselves to music, we won't fit.
If in a few years this does not work, we get electricians, ”Alicia jokes.
But things, for the moment, are going well and their millions of plays on Spotify have just established them in the mainstream, a concept that the first fans of Cariño are still not very happy with.
“Thinking that something closed and small is better is prejudice and classism.
Just because someone doesn't know you doesn't make your art better”, says Paola.
«
I don't see the difference between being in a joint or in the mainstream.
You keep making music and if it goes very well you will sound in the Top 40
, but that is not something that worries me either, "adds María.
What they do care about is remaining free.
«
In the songs we are not going to admit any censorship
.
If we want to write something, we do it.
It is our group and we do not like to feel imposed by a lot of fame that it brought us ».
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