Amaia: "When I go to a 'photocall' wearing braces, I don't even remember that I have hair in my armpits"

The singer is on tour with her second album and has released a new version of

of Golpes Bajos.

Amaia will also debut as a protagonist in

the new Javis series.

You have stated that your second album is more mature and there has been an evolution.

What have you learned in these years? To relativize things.

When I was starting out, any type of problem that arose seemed like a world to me, something very big, and I didn't know how to encompass and manage it.

There are always going to be small problems and you have to face them.

Is yours the triumph of sincerity and spontaneity? Mine?

I don't know, it's not intentional either, but yes, I suppose so, because I don't get to pretend.

In the end, I am who I am and that is how I show myself. Precisely on a song from your new album you sing that you no longer intend to pretend.

Have you had to do it? Well, it's not that I had to, but that, especially at the beginning, it all came very suddenly and it seemed quite big.

Well, then I was still pretending a bit and I wasn't so much myself.

I have also learned to be myself, for example, doing this interview.

I feel calmer, more comfortable and more sure of myself.

It's not that I was pretending, but that I was still very young. You also talk about those moments when you don't know who you are.

These are moments that will always come in life.

Now, for example, that winter is coming and it's colder, a detail as silly as this one, my mood changes a lot.

Things are coming together that suddenly make you have a worse or more insecure season or like being a little more lost.

This in life will always happen and it may be a good thing, because it is just a transition to another time.

I have the impression that since the end of 'Operation Triumph'

you are struggling to get out of the suit that the music industry had prepared for you.

Is that so? (Laughs) It can be in some things.

In two months I went from being a stranger who had just finished high school to one of the most exposed and famous people in the country.

That has now gone down quite a bit as well.

Inevitably, not only the industry, but also the public expected things.

It wasn't so much that I tried to get rid of that suit, but that I simply tried to be true to myself and do what I wanted. Have you preferred to be an artist rather than a product? Yes, I don't know, maybe, yes.

I really like music and singing.

I've always liked it and, in the end, I base myself on that, but yes, you could say. Have you had to fight a lot with the directors of the record companies? Well, it also depends on the moment.

There are always things that are not so agreed.

But, in general, we are also a team and, in the end, we will always fight for the same thing, which is that everything goes as well as possible.

Sometimes there are different opinions.

But because there are also many people working on the same project.

The singer Vega, who also went through 'Operación Triunfo', said that the music industry had ripped her feathers to shreds. Oh, yes?

It also depends on which case.

I have always felt highly valued by the people on my team because they respect my opinion.

I have always felt very heard.

They have never forced me to do anything.

They have always given me a lot of freedom, really.Do you feel identified with Rosa López, who also won OT and confessed that her experience was traumatic?Well, I don't know much about Rosa's story either.

I only know that Operación Triunfo won and his was even crazier, because there was no precedent of anything like that happening there.

But I have felt moments of not knowing very well how to cover what I had.

I also feel that from the beginning I was given a lot of freedom and I wanted to take my time.

I have always tried to be aware of who I am and try to have my feet on the ground.

But yes, there have been hard moments.

When leaving OT, your partner Ana Guerra declared that she had felt betrayed by some colleagues in the program. The truth is that it has not happened to me.

We have all taken our path and that's it.

In the end, they are people who have been in my life and who will always be there because we had a very hard time.

It was a before and after in life.

But, then, each one goes his way.

She related that she had been envious of other classmates because they had been more successful than her.

This envy is something that is very present and social networks increase it even more.

Obviously, in my life I have had envy of all kinds, the truth, but you have to accept it and then it's over.

How is envy cured? Envy is a feeling that will always be in the human being and it is something very human.

Each one faces it as they can and as they know how.

I don't really know how envy is cured.

I believe that it is not that it is cured, but that it is a process that is changing and that one day it will be overcome and that's it.

Nothing happens.Among all your new songs, your verse of "you want to be my friend eat me the fig" has been given many interpretations.

Tell us what yours is. In the end, I don't think it has many interpretations either.

I mean,

Yes, it is true that it can be interpreted in different ways, but I think it is quite clear, right?

You want to be my friend?

Well, you're not going to be, basically. You've done a version of 'Los Días de la semana' from Los payasos de la tele with Rigoberta Bandini.

That song was the soundtrack of my childhood and it wasn't until I heard your version that I realized how macho the lyrics were. Of course!

It is that it is something that is so integrated that, in the end, you do not even realize it.

Look, I'm a super fan of Miliki, so I love it and the songs he has seem incredible to me, but this song had to be changed because of its horrible lyrics.

In turn, Miliki did a new version of the song and that's good because, in the end, it's like realizing that it was wrong. You're a young woman and an artist.

Do you feel the pressure of always having to be perfect?

Unfortunately yes.

For example, when they invite me to an event where they are going to take photos of me and I am going to appear in the media, I know that they are going to judge me based on my appearance.

In those specific moments I feel a little bit of pressure.

But, in general, in my day to day, I try not to let it affect me.

In this aspect I have improved a lot, because before I was a person who, in order to go out, for example, needed to be prepared, feel pretty, put on a little makeup... I had a kind of mania with this problem because I couldn't go out the street... like I didn't dare.

Now I've improved a lot in this and I'm leaving with a few pints... Rigoberta Bandini sings "our tits scare them".

Do you think so? Man, it's clear, right?

To this day, if you see a naked woman's boobs, they still have an impact.

In the end, it is nonsense.

I think there is still a lot of work to improve this and for it to change.

For example, you have not had a problem showing hair in your armpits and there are still people who are shocked that a woman has hair in her armpits. Yes, nowadays, when I go to a photocall wearing braces, I don't even remember that I have hair in my armpits, but it is still something that is still being discussed and it continues to surprise me that it is still being discussed.

It's like I don't even think about it anymore, you know?

I go there in a dress that I like, but I don't think about the hair.

You have become a feminist icon.

What do you think of the division in the feminist movement because of the trans law? Within feminism are the Terf, who are women who think that trans women are not part of the movement.

At the end,

it is a single fight for all women, regardless of the reproductive system you have.

It's the same.

I see it so clearly that I'm surprised that there are people who don't see it that clearly, you know?

There is a simple fight and that's it, but it is a problem that in that same fight and within that same group there are internal fights. You have also talked about mental health and you have said that you go to a psychologist.

What advice would you give to young people your age so that they can connect with themselves? I was also talking about this with my psychologist, as I am a person who is always quite worried about the past or the future.

It is something as simple as trying to be much more connected to the present with all the senses, be it sight, smell, everything... In the end, this is done on a cerebral level, being more connected with yourself.

Saying it is very simple

but then doing it is a bit complicated for me because I always worry a little, but the key is to be connected with the present. Do we all have our dark side and our closet? How? What if we all have one dark and secret part that we do not want to be known. I think so.

The mind is a world and a whole universe.

In the mind of each person there is a galaxy and a thousand galaxies.

There will always be something that you are not going to teach the rest of the people.

In the mind of each person there is a galaxy and a thousand galaxies.

There will always be something that you are not going to teach the rest of the people.

In the mind of each person there is a galaxy and a thousand galaxies.

There will always be something that you are not going to teach the rest of the people.

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