San Clemente de Llobregat, 1999. The most successful of the most successful edition of 'Operación Triunfo' presents a new song, 'Ni una más', about sexist violence. For her video clip,
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has had the collaboration of women such as Sara Carbonero, Cristina Pedroche, Mala Rodríguez and Lola Indigo. In addition, he returns to the stage with a tour that starts on July 1 at the Jardins de Pedralbes festival in Barcelona, and then travels all over Spain until its culmination in Madrid, at the Wizink Center, on December 27.
Where does 'Ni una más' come from?
I had something in me that moved me inside, I needed to put out a song about something that is currently happening. This is a feminist issue, but I wanted to explain it from what I live, from what my environment lives and from the conversations I have with my friends, with my mother, with my aunts ... I am very grateful to have a speaker and I'm going to use it to explain a little what is happening to me, what is happening to us. Because if this doesn't happen to us, why do so many women go out on the street on March 8?
Talk about what you live. How is that personal vision?
The video clip of the song is about a girl who, throughout a sequence shot, is walking down the street and is all the time tense, nervous, looking back. And nothing happens. And why is that girl tense if nothing happens? Well, for everything that is behind, for everything that happens daily, for the complaints, the cases of women raped, abused, dead ... Because since you were little your mother tells you not to go out on the street, which she does not do with your son. That keeps getting inside you and it sucks. Because there is also a lot of talk, but it seems that it is a joke.
Because it says?
A few weeks ago I was having dinner in the center of Madrid with some friends, and my friend and I were driving home together with her car, which was in the parking lot. We asked a friend: "Hey, would you mind walking us to the parking lot?" He stared at us. And I said, "Do I really have to explain why you have to accompany us? Well, because I'm not sure, I'm scared." It would be cool not to have to ask. They tell you that you are very shit, but it is not true. It is that many things happen around. It's annoying that you can't go quietly like other people on the street. Like the boys. Or that going with a boy makes you go more confident. I'm scared to go out on the fucking street, every night.
How do you think things have changed for women in this regard?
The other day I read a piece of information that came out of the Ministry of Equality and that said that there were a thousand attacks and abuses of sexist violence reported per month in Spain. We always talk about how we are progressing, but we do not talk about reality. Of course, we are much better than 20 years ago because the women of 20 years ago have fought for us to be as we are today. But we have to fight not to go back and, above all, so that those who come later also have that easier, more 'asphalted', calmer road.
Are you a radical feminist?
I am a radical feminist because I am in favor of equality and not violence. It is nothing else. It is that my message is that. I want everything to be completely equal and equitable. I really need to feel that a man cannot feel more than me to do whatever he wants with me.
Do you know the risks involved in touching these issues in these times?
I really don't want to take advantage of any cause. I am simply a woman and I am also living this just like you. Not that he comes: "Hey, I want to do things like these super feminists here." It is that it is my day to day, it is that it is what I have sucked. My mother has taught me a lot of values about this. Now I'm a singer and I'm not just going to be with things like "look how I love my boyfriend." I also have to say the reality of what is happening, that we are not all blindfolded, for crying out loud. Let us express ourselves. Because maybe other people don't realize what the move is about. Well, hopefully they will, because it is a reality and it is what is happening.
You will also know that there are many professional colleagues who avoid standing out for fear of 'lynching' 'on-line'.
What a pity. What kind of society are we becoming, that we do not stop pointing out and accusing any movement of any person, that nothing seems right to us. But I understand perfectly that there are those who stop saying according to what things, because they come to you from all sides.
How would you define your relationship with the messages you issue regarding controversial issues?
I have been a very short time, without ever getting into any scrubbing, any positioning, always quite neutral. I am very cautious with many things and with many topics. Before it was more. But every time I'm trying to get through a little more of the buzz. But I'm afraid that there is an avalanche behind that will go, boom, to box against me.
How are you handling this end of the pandemic?
I feel very grateful and I think I am very coherent, since my situation is being shit, on the part of the music industry in terms of concerts, but, for everything else, I have been able to telework from home, make songs, record things, promotions. And within that part, I have been able to continue giving more way to my music and my career. But there are many other people who have been very bad and very screwed up. Of course, in the concert sector, it sucks. And I am one of the best stops has been coming out. So I'm really glad that the light is showing a bit at the end of the tunnel. So, I am going to put out a tour where I have already presented quite a few dates, 25, which is great and I hope it can be done, which I am almost sure of.
What is the learning after going through this?
This time has inspired me and it has made me appreciate a lot of things. And value them triple. I have a desire to be at three in the morning in a nightclub that I'm dying. And when my whole family is vaccinated, I'm going to run down the street yelling "Happiness!"
There are teenagers who suffer because they think they have lost the best of their lives. And the elderly who will survive by paying too high a price. What do you think of both cases?
Fortunately, when all this happens we will remain young. But then there are older people who are a lot overprotective because they don't know how much longer they are going to have. I understand both situations.
What have you liked least about this time?
The first days of being locked up were very cool in terms of full unity: the messages we sent each other, what we could do with it, the memes ... But then everything turned around and instead of supporting each other, we all pointed to each other. the others.
Why does music save us?
Music makes you see things differently.
Maybe you've been very stubborn or very blind about something and all of a sudden, wow, it doesn't matter.
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