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Madrid, 1991. He managed to turn his group, Hinds, into the most important female music project in Spain abroad, before the advent of Rosalía. Now Carlotta Cosials and her three companions present their third album, 'The prettiest curse', a big bet despite the coronavirus.

This album should have been published a few months ago. But then the pandemic came ... When the album was going to be out, everything was being so strange and so false that we decided to postpone it because we didn't think it made any sense to appear like 'hey, happy Hinds' day, we're already here publishing our little music ', while my mother has tested positive for coronavirus and is half the world upside down. Why publish it now? I also think it relaxes a little to talk about things a little less important, such as an album, compared to a global pandemic. Like someone who has a very bad day at work and comes home and concentrates a lot on washing dishes, on small goals. Sooner or later you have to keep going. That, and that in the end, damn, we are talking about music. And if I'm not mistaken, the human being has not stopped feeling things, right? There is the common place that the third album is the crucial one. Is it fulfilled here? At the compositional and depth level, I think we have given a stretch. The big difference with the other albums is that we have given ourselves time. Instead of two months, we've been composing 10. And I think it shows. It was thanks to taking it a little easy. Two years ago, talking to you about your previous album, I complained about one thing: "Having to put up with how many cocks we have sucked." Now, on this album, they've made a song about it: 'Just like kids (Meow).' It felt great. Also, I really wanted it to have hints of humor. On the whole subject of machismo and sexism, it's exhausting to be complaining all the time and I don't want to be a person who complains. So the song is quite 'naive'. So she had the right personality to talk about it. I really like the position we have taken and it is great to give visibility to this. When we took it out, they wrote us a lot of girl groups like the Mourn or Belako, who felt represented. Why would you say that there is this distinction between men and women in music? It is very difficult to know what the hell the public wants. Especially with girls, you always look for a quality, but don't try too hard to have it. I want you to be sexy, but you want to be sexy. Or that you are nice, but not too much either. Girls are questioned about our character and our way of presenting ourselves to the world. And we are never perfect, because it is a pain in the ass. We don't want to be. How has this affected your career? At first, when we were recording the first video clips, which I directed and edited, they were a bit of a headache because I didn't want us to be too funny for that we did not look like idiots, but neither that we tried to leave beautiful, because it is not our vibes, nor too serious not to appear pretentious ... We were two very young aunts making music, that did not sound like the standards of the radio and that we They could eat potatoes if they felt like it. And it is a bit what happened, it did not matter how we behaved. And what advantages do you think men have in this regard? A man is less self-censorship. He does not care if he is ugly, handsome, introverted or on the edge. In general, he's more confident with how he presents himself to others than a woman. What about women having to artistically 'burn' at the stake like Joan of Arc? That doesn't depend so much on gender. Suffering as a certain magnetism and the human being enjoys it, with the stories of overcoming. Because it gives us hope. At the time, Hinds were much more important outside than within Spain. Has the pandemic changed this situation? We are still 'fighting it'. And it's a shame, because we had a lot of festivals scheduled for this summer around the world. But it is true that, having spent a whole year composing in Madrid, we have found ourselves with the city. It is inevitable: they are our roots and we want to 'petarlo' here also. It is beautiful to have experienced that change, from our beginnings, when we went to a concert as if it were an exam, to no longer be that way. On the previous occasion he also complained that in the 'playlists' of his friends there was no not even a guitar. How things have changed, huh? It seems. And how has it changed? In Spain the guitar is now a super fertile world. There are many groups of all sizes: you have Women, who are coming back with great force after I don't know how many years in music; you have the 'carolinos' [Carolina Durante, her partner's group, Diego Ibáñez] who have just been born, but are already announcing a Wizink Center. I am very, very happy. Because, really, having a group of guitars is very complicated: coordinating with friends, don't be angry, don't pull your hair out, the price of the place ... I understand that it is much easier to be at home and make yourself a 'beat' and draw melodies on top. This is why I find it so brave and so valuable that people are gathering to make bands. A few years ago, his name was implicated in a 'beef', when C. Tangana said in a song ('CHITO') that he wanted to get married With you, and Los Chikos del Maíz said in another topic that he was the "Carlotta Cosials' paymaster". With this matter I have gone through different phases and it has brought me many problems with people that I care about a lot, but in the end I am left with the attitude that my mother has, that she does not know anything, her eyes fill and she is excited. She is a macarrada and Antón [C. Tangana] can be anything, but hey, it's there. Are you and your generation more politically aware than the previous one? It makes me very nervous the attitude of playing a little fool of yourself and that you don't know anything about what is happening. Although we don't say it openly, we exude our political thinking. That is enough for me. I don't like putting it in songs. Because our function is not that, but not to make disgusting any type of human being. So? I'm happy with our behavior and our activism. But it is also very easy right now to seem like a network activist. You cannot join all the wars, because there are many and you have to choose yours. Do you dare to give a political reading of what is happening? Unfortunately, the pandemic has brought us back a few years ago. And with the closing of borders and that each country is focusing only on itself, I am afraid that there will be a new wave of nationalisms. That it is precious to support local trade, but it has that double edge: that this does not mean that you are better than the one next door. And how to avoid it? It is I suppose that it will be inevitable, especially when it comes to logistics to contain the virus and his fucking mother. Well, we will have to start little by little. It is almost like thinking about civilization again from its origins. And when our civilization is more or less recomposed we will begin to rediscover the outside world again. What I don't know is how to prevent hatred or rejection of the unknown.

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