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Antonio Luque . Seville, 1970. Hyperprolific singer active for three decades, better known as Mr. Chinarro, releases a new album. It is called The Good Side and is the answer to these times of farce, memes and false news.

How has it been in recent months? I am in Cornellà de Llobregat. Now better after being scared at first. I usually go out of the house a little, so since you can go running, buy and throw away the garbage, I do a lot of life from before. But it has been hard to see all the dead and people looking for food in the trash. There always has been, but now more. Although I try to turn off the TV and think about something else, I can't. Are you one of those who have done concerts online? We already gave away the records, if we now give away the concerts too ... The other day, he jokingly commented that he planned to do concerts in churches, where the capacity is 50%. It was a joke to show all the contradictions of the norms of the de-escalated. Although if you think about it, a mass is nothing more than a concert, they also sing, they have theirshow , its magic and its special effects. They have more permits, but it is because they have been giving the tabarra longer than the rockers. I suppose they have earned it. Are you one of those who applaud at eight? I like to oppose it since I was little, so no. I see the neighbors and I think: have they voted for those parties that have cut back on healthcare whenever they can? Have they ever voted thinking about the work of the toilets? I have the feeling that when they go out on the balcony they do it to see if the others are alive, especially in the hardest phase. Now that there are casseroles I am about to go out and applaud. Are there casseroles in Cornellà? No, one of the good things about Catalonia is that there is little to date. Maybe that's why I've always liked coming since I was a kid. In recent years, the whole issue of independence has become complicated, they speak Catalan to you everywhere. But it is necessary to understand them, if the thing is going to fight against the fachas anything is worth, even the language. Which on the other hand, is yours. What do you think of the outraged Núñez de Balboa? They do not like that the orders are those of a man with a ponytail. There are people who are much more concerned with a person's hairstyle or if they wear an earring than anything else, I know because I have lived it at home since I was a child. I think that if Pablo Iglesias had cut his ponytail or wore a suit of his size, there would be no more casseroles. It also bothers them that Pedro Sánchez is well planted. I think the faces are moved more by those impulses. Let's talk about the album. The first song, 'Una Famiglia Reale', is fantastic. Well, I had many doubts. But the lyrics came out very quickly and I like it because although it is about political news, what I say is not well understood. Better this way, so as not to get into trouble. He sings "Be my princess" to Leticia, do you think the Queen could like it? It has always been said that she has very indie musical tastes. Hopefully, although Leticia has written it with c and it is not dedicated to the Queen but to the whole world of false news. But if you like it, I'm delighted. In 'Planet B' he talks about the Amazon and Australia, are we already at the point where climate change has become pop? I don't like to talk about pop as usual, there are too many songs of 'you loved me and I didn't I can't live without you '... look, I've had a hard time for love, but doing those kinds of songs has never been good for me. Already on the previous album, Asunción, it dealt with the subject of the apocalypse, because it could be seen coming. Well she was not wrong. Today I have read that the government has agreed to make Spain a country of neutral emissions in 2050, by that time I will be dead and my son will be old ... I have also read that poor things about Michelin because they have been two months without make wheels. Anyway. There are a lot of movies and books on climate change, I don't see why there won't be songs too. Sometimes I think that with how easy it would have been to do something with the usual three chords and the 'me without you, you without me, me there and you here' ... 50% of Spanish pop is that. But this is your 17th album, right? How is it so productive? It can be, I neither confirm nor deny. I'm already doing the following. I do what I can. Music doesn't have much substance either, and when it does, it doesn't like it. Melodies occur to me as jokes occur to others. Well, I can think of jokes too, but my career as Eugenio did not work. Maybe it's time to be something else, I don't know. There's also a song about depression. Yes, making fun of the subject. It is that the depression I had has been like the Guadalquivir, I have been avoiding it. It is a song about things to leave behind. And about the disgust that Betis gives me every week, I don't know if I deserve it. The album cover is a montage with his face and the famous portrait of El Greco, why? Because we live in times when everything is false, everything is a meme. Two people have strained me this week: I thought I saw a golf club in the man who was hitting a signal in the protests of Núñez de Balboa with a broom and that Cayetano de Carolina Durante was singing at the demonstration . I have eaten them both with potatoes. It is very difficult not to strain it. Even those of us who are not completely dumb are free from manipulation and cheating. So I wanted a cover that looked like it was fake. "Culture is the good virus," he says in the album notes. One of the keys to this time is contempt for knowledge, culture, and curiosity. That which is sometimes read out there of 'my lie is worth as much as your truth or my ignorance as much as your knowledge'. That idea is being instilled, even scientists are discredited. And that is very dangerous for the youngest. They don't realize that deep down they are preparing them to be cannon fodder.

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