Beatriz Luengo, after the success of her viral response to Maluma: "Women are not with an uncle for money"

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The artist Beatriz Luengo, with the urban 'look' that she wears in the viral video of the feminist 'Hawaii'.

Claudia peace

The singer is happy for the enormous impact of her feminist message covering

.

"Many men have shared it and I love that"

He affirms that he does not want to attack the Colombian, but rather to focus on the message sent by the "10 male composers" and on the cyberbullying suffered by young women

"I did not believe it: I answered, it refreshed and the second there were 20 more answers."

This weekend,

(Madrid, December 23, 1982) has learned that there is a limit of 100

per person after which they can no longer be shared until the next 24 hours.

"It was a surprise, I am happy and very excited," says the singer, who has achieved no less than

(and continues to add) with the female version of her

handwriting

, the latest success of

.

The topic has gone viral in just hours and has generated thousands of comments making her feel "overwhelmed", given the enormous response to that "empowered and poisonous chat", as she herself presented the video encouraging us to share it "so that you Courage, friends. "

You can listen to it below.

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The artist clarifies that

, nor an attack on Maluma, who has even asked permission before launching the other perspective of the story, in which many have seen the singer's ex-girlfriend as the protagonist ,

.

Not surprisingly, recently social networks also witnessed the controversy when the players of Paris Saint Germain, the club where the current partner of the model, Neymar Jr plays, sung the song derisively in the locker room.

But Luengo does not personify this action in her, but rather wants to use "art as a useful tool for society," she explains, to say "enough is enough" to certain messages promoted by the urban genre, of which she declares herself a fan, although many times I place the woman as a passive subject in sexual relations.

We spoke with the artist about the enormous repercussion of the modification of the

handwriting

(here the original version).

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In addition to a feminist letter that invites you to empower yourself, what message do you want to send to the world with this version? Thanks to my book,

, which came out a year ago and is now in its eighth edition, I am living an internal process very pretty.

I took 12 stories, from 11 women and a man, and I gave the protagonist the muse instead of the genius.

I realized that Einstein had never recognized Mileva Maric, who helped her write her theories.

In the same way, I focused on telling the story from the side of Mozart's sister, with María Magdalena, Dalí's Gala ... I read a lot, I was informed and I tried to give justice to female characters.

Instead of pointing out a culprit for machismo, which at times may be religious, traditional or paternalistic due to family roles, when educating a girl with less freedom than a son, I focused on giving the reader tools to put aside the oppressor in each case and I just focused on them.

Giving them their place, discovering why they were revealing, what was not said at the time ... For me, this song has been the continuation of that book.

I simply wanted to tell the other side of the story: I have made the leap from literature to

with the same perspective, it has respected the music and practically all the lyrics in its version but with a completely opposite angle.

Did you consider the original song macho? I listen to the film that Maluma tells, I take the message and I see a protagonist who does not speak and from whom I would like to give her point of view.

That was it.

It is not an attack on Maluma.

Personally, I don't know what your opinion is.

I have spoken with her manager to tell her the version she was going to do but I am replicating a song itself with 10 male songwriters.

I believe that if he had been there he would have told them that the message that emerges is that he knows that he is with another couple but he was the first.

It's like saying that because he had sex with her she will always be hers.

Like the puppies when they mark territory with the pee.

Why that to the woman and not to the man?

It seems to me a macho message, in my opinion and repetitive.

It is recurrent in urban themes that women always go after men for money.

And the women around me or whom I read, I don't see them that way, but rather looking for an intellectual, economic, labor independence ... We are not thinking of being with an uncle who supports us for money.

It is also a response to that set of roles that I feel is very repetitive and it is about time someone said that the film is not like that. Are you worried about the hypersexualized language of 'reggaeton', especially considering that those messages arrive to millions of young people? I have been a composer of the urban genre for a long time.

I have composed for Wisin, for Jlo [Jennifer López], for Ozuna, for Ricky Martín, Daddy Yankee ... And I have never felt that there is machismo in them, because I see them as generous and sensitive, aware of who they are talking to.

But I have noticed in writing sessions that there is little awareness of the messages.

In this last year I have wanted to explain well what is macho for me within

, because sometimes it gets confused.

Latin music has a very strong content of explicit sex and sometimes it is confused that suddenly Bad Bunny sings "200 miles in a jetski, hey! If you want, I'll put it here for you, hey!".

I say that this is not sexist, it is explicit sex that may seem rude to you, but he tells you that if you want and if you feel like it.

For me macho is the message that hurts us within the roles.

For example, being an object and not a subject.

That brings us to our knees.

Those lyrics that make today's girls think that sex is focused on giving pleasure and not that both should enjoy.

The pleasure must be mutual and this is a message that has to be changed in the songs.

And when you vindicate your point of view to the composers, what do they respond to? "It's what the aunts want to hear."

In a composition session that was for a female artist, I arrived when the following verse had already been written: "I want you to hose me down all night long."

I was thinking, it will be a joke, right?

And they told me that the song "was terrific" [with a Latin accent].

This is the machismo of 50 years ago perpetuated, where what is being said to the girls of now is to kneel that you water them.

That is not, and more so if the speech is attributed to a woman.

She has to talk about what gives her pleasure.

It cannot be that we tell girls that this is their greatest wish.

In recent times, a sector of society perceives feminism as excluding men, even as an attack.

However, feminism means equality.

Should it be inclusive? Totally.

What I am most excited about this weekend is that out of 147,000

shared, according to the statistics of my profile on Instagram, half have been men.

I love this.

It has to be a joint fight.

I'm not going to say that I don't sing with this one because I consider it such a thing and since I am of the opposite opinion, I refuse.

No, what you have to do is go to the spotlight.

And turn it around.

Gender equality has to be transversal.

We do nothing with a war of the sexes.

Among those thousands of comments, what has reached you the most? I am still amazed at the number of girls who have responded to me: "Wow, I had not realized that the song was from a point of view so unfavorable for women ".

It is simply because I have respected the melody and its words.

We are a crossword puzzle and each one chooses which letter to write.

There have really always been men who give birth to women and we need them giving us that light.

It is not a 50% fight. When we listen to some songs from the time of the dictatorship, we put our hands to our heads.

Recently, the suspension of 'Gone with the Wind' on HBO for the moment of sensitivity that the United States was experiencing for the murder of George Floyd generated controversy and was crossed out as censorship.

Can we review historical art with the eyes of the 21st century? It is a complicated debate.

We all want equality and you find few people who tell you that they are racists, and I tell you that my boy is black [Yotuel Romero] and I have never come across something like that.

The claim does not begin with afro hair, but with the impossibility of a black man to sit next to a white man on a bus, which is why the focus was on human rights.

In 2020 they ask you why you fight, if as a woman you can work, vote ... And they understand feminism as something aesthetic.

That's where I have to take out the artillery, and explain that in the 21st century there are 130 million women subjected to female genital mutilation-cutting.

And millions of other things that continue to affect women.

Racism is treated seriously and we all feel sensitized.

When I saw the cancellation of HBO, I understood that censorship as a human being because the sensitivity of the American people was ahead.

Just as we have reviewed the laws, the roles we assume or the speeches we give, art must also be reviewed.

Some works will be lost, but I prefer that my son does not have access to certain screenings that make him see his father as he has nothing to do with it.

With feminism, this exercise of seeing it as human rights is lacking.

It doesn't happen because they would start to say that we are extreme. Have you ever been accused of being an extreme feminist or 'feminazi'? I am very amused.

If feminism is equality, how can it be extreme?

What does the rest want, equality but a little bit?

[Laughs].

It is awful.

Julius Caesar used to say: "Divide and conquer."

Now there is a conversation in this regard, and suddenly questions are raised like what happens with transgender people.

I do not think that anyone should be excluded, that it is possible to decide who can fight or who affects.

My father, for example, is also affected by machismo because he has a daughter and he notices that the opportunities have not been the same or he has had it more difficult than his son.

And he has a wife and he walks around the neighborhood with her and my mother is "Nacarino's wife."

He wonders why he is not "Angeles's husband" but the other way around.

Machismo affects us all.

To us as women and to men because they have sisters, women and daughters. In the last macro-survey of Equality, the most devastating fact is that the highest percentage of violence is suffered by the youngest girls.

71% of those between 16 and 24 years old.

As claimed in her song, the networks are working as a control tool.

Is it more towards them than towards them? I sent Maluma's team by e-mail the statistics of this precisely.

I have talked to many girls about my book and I have realized that although there are machismos that have remained in the past, we have new ones such as cyberbullying.

I was surprised to see girls so vindictive and empowered that they later assumed that it was normal for your boyfriend to scold you because a new guy follows you or gives you a

.

I told them that if an ex can't extort money from you at home, they can't do it on your social network either.

It's being taken for granted that control is normal because that person seems to care about you.

Honestly, for me it was important to do the song with bravado to say that the control is not cool, that I am not yours and I never was.

Do not get confused.

I love that the message got through.

We must stop naturalizing cyberbullying, it is a machismo that is almost not talked about. This creativity has been one of those she has had in times of pandemic, as was her concert in the quarantine live on Instagram.

Culture is very much in the spotlight because it requires the gathering of people and most of its concerts have been canceled.

How is the coronavirus affecting you professionally? The truth is that this year, as the book has been among the 20 best sellers, it has compensated me.

I can't complain about the dramas out there.

I've been lucky on this side and I always try to be positive and active.

In August I was going to do 10 concerts and as the regrowth came, they stayed in two.

Now I have just recorded a video clip in Burgos, in a monastery, with Eugenio Recuenco.

We all did the pcr before going, the filming was very careful ... The new normal is like that.

On Friday I was also singing with Ara Malikian at La Riviera to raise funds for the industry, for all those fellow

who are having a hard time.

It is with these people that I suffer: my sound engineers, illuminators, producers ... You have to think about the general good.

The concerts will return in 2021 and I understand that the situation is terrible for the sector but even more horrible is the situation in general. What will be your next challenge?

Is it positive with this outlook? I find happiness in utility.

For me, art is meaningless if I don't feel that it can serve or move someone.

Sometimes I get the message across and sometimes not so much, it's more of an exercise in personal introspection.

But I try to get out of myself to generate empathy.

People pay me a lot of attention through networks and that way you have to take advantage of it.

Now I am with a company in Los Angeles doing a children's project for Netflix that started as a children's story that I did with Yotuel and has ended up being for television because I am a mother, I have a four-year-old son and as a Hispanic in the United States I feel that there is little content of our culture for children.

I want our story to be told too.

If I can't do concerts, I start composing.

It is always time to think.

I like more to see the glass half full, not half empty.

Of course, without frivolizing because there are people who are having a very bad time.

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