Say what fourth pageHis sixth album is his most anarchic, breaking his obsessive tendency to take everything under control. And satisfied with the result. Although “a little more adult”, it is a work that talks about love, friendship, joy and living in the moment. This Thursday, Pablo Alborán has released a new album and the tour awaits him from now on. The public assures it “my vitamin”.
Pablo Alborán looks happy. Last time we spoke we were in the middle of a pandemic and it was hard to be positive but now fourth page releases optimism and says for the first time that he is satisfied with everything.
Yes, the truth is I’m enjoying it. I evaluate all the good things that happen to me without excuses and without wasting time. Curiously, it’s a very anarchic record because of the way it’s made compared to my nature, because I’m very square and along with other records going step-by-step. I took songs from this album a year ago, then waited, then added the others. I went through my tour with no bias and letting go, which is what this album inspired me to be. Being close to people again, traveling a lot, being with fans… Back to life. As are.
What’s different about this album that makes you so convinced of what you’re doing?
Maybe that’s why I didn’t think about it too much and stigmatized everything I did, not by the genre of music, the lyrics, the theme, or the way I did it. This put me at ease. It’s true that there was a lot of work and hours of work behind the recording, but I came back to making music out of necessity, wanting to tell something and celebrate what we’ve been through. He also talks about love in many songs, but a little more about adult love. I’m not 20 years old anymore and I don’t experience anything with the same intensity.
Collaborated with María Becerra. Friendsin Carin Leon travel to nowherein Main Mena transitional birdin Leo Rizzi 4U and Aitana and Álvaro de Luna It’s raining, it’s pouring. Why is this the need to record collaborative albums, something many artists have been doing lately?
It’s been a long time, that’s true. It’s the first time I have an album with so much collaborative work and it just popped up, nothing premeditated. We wrote the song together with Leo Rizzi. He had been trying to contact Carín León for a year and there was no way. I’m giving a concert in Barcelona and I’m uploading a story on Instagram. I saw him, wrote to him and he replied to me. The next day he came back to the concert and I told him I had a song I wanted him to do with me. He helped me produce and that’s how it all turned out. We also live in a moment where we put labels, judge, all day, but this is a record where I collaborate with people who have nothing to do with what I do and yet the songs have a stigma that is very much theirs. They have a very own stamp with me. It shows me that you have to keep trying and trying, and I won’t stop enjoying doing them. I suddenly wrote with María Becerra, an urban music singer. Friends; The range caught a little high tone for me. I thought about looking for a female voice, I saw María, her voice was beautiful. I called him and asked him what he thought: if it went well we would do it, otherwise we would do something else. This is how it all happened. A week before I delivered the album, I was finishing production because I made it, shared it with three producers, and also from home.
“I’m still grateful that they nominated me for a Grammy. If they give me greats and they don’t, they’ll keep nominating me. I used to be so excited but I don’t know which saints to pray to anymore.”
It’s like being thrown into the void.
Yes, but if you’re having fun with what you’re doing, you don’t have to think about why you’re doing it. This is the philosophy of all this. Sometimes you forget to have fun because I am very outspoken and very demanding, whereas over the years I go the opposite way.
His songs are always the result of emotion, the moment he lived. Is this album optimistic because it’s going through a sweet period?
Yes, I think it’s one of the best moments of my life. And I will try to make it as long as I can. It doesn’t mean that other albums didn’t have fun, but it’s true that this album is deep, but it’s not intense or heavy. When I talk about love, it comes in another way and from other places. flap more personal to me.
Is it still a miracle to record an album today? More precisely, selling music. So on CD, QR, direct audio, cards, records, coasters, extra tracks…
Well, since I started at the age of 21, I’ve already entered the era when records had their own format and were sold with different gifts at Christmas. I’ve always struggled with the record company so that the content of the records is good. I’ve never released a record just for the sake of publishing it. On this disc is a DVD with all the sounds of the concerts we did on the theater tour, and I wanted people to have it; four super cool design coasters with phrases from the songs; A gift for four people to go to a paid hotel… As I understand it, this is part of the business. Selling a disc in physical format is very difficult. Every year sales drop, but I don’t want to stop trying. It’s also a way to reach another audience that other formats can’t reach. The important thing is that it is in any format. We live in a time where everything flows so fast, reflected in the speed at which music and art are consumed, and the challenge is to continue to be inspired in this moment. Right now everyone is saying that creation is in crisis, but I believe that many things have changed during the pandemic process. I was lucky to be an observer of what was going on and embraced the moment. You spend more time choosing the movie today than watching it. The system gives you so many possibilities that it is very difficult to adjust the dose.
presented yesterday fourth page sixth album. And now?
I’m going to do a record deal in Madrid on Saturday, that’s all we have planned as I don’t have time and on Sunday we’ll have a live show on Tik Tok, super awesome performance we’ve been preparing for a long time. Sunday at 20:00. This amuses me a lot. Tik Tok saved me from hours of insomnia, distracted me from many waits at airports… There are so many good things.
Is public contact your fuel?
Total. It’s been a vitamin. And then being able to try mixes and make mistakes to show or fix demos with my musicians. Something I never had back then. Here are some of the songs I presented at my concerts on tour. I ran, rumba-like, I sang at a concert without registration (laughs). Comic. The theater tour gave me the opportunity to act spontaneously. I really liked those concerts and I don’t want to lose them.
There are 20 Latin Grammy nominations, but it’s unlikely.
Yes, sheathed (laughs). I don’t know, it will sound good, but I’m still grateful that they nominated me. Yes, they give me great and if they don’t they keep nominating me. Let’s see, I used to be very excited especially for the team that came with me, but I don’t know which saints to pray to anymore.
“Tik Tok saved me from hours of insomnia, entertained me from many waits at airports”
be an actor
announced this week anthill who is preparing to become an actress. to count.
I’ve been reading for a year. It’s easy to say I want to be an actor, but it’s not that automatic. I work with a teacher from Corazza school. There is a lot of music in the cinema and there is a lot of cinema in the music. It also inspires me. I live the stories I know I will never live through the characters. But I respect the profession a lot. I am too humble about intrusion. I will never do anything without really preparing myself and giving the importance things have. And surround myself with people who really help me say to myself, “Body, you’re not worth it.” But it is very difficult; I know the sacrifice and the years behind it.
Why this leap and this moment?
My agent calls me one day and tells me if we can start working on this. It so happened that at that time I was still open to work, I spent 8 hours playing the piano in my room and because I like to play the anthem. All of a sudden, I found that after work, I came home with an open mind, ideas, and I wanted to continue learning myself. I don’t know, maybe something will come up or not. But it doesn’t matter, the truth is, it’s training you in something different.
“I’m preparing myself as an actor and I hope it helps me get rid of the image people have of me the day I do something.”
And what would you choose, theater, cinema or TV series?
I do not know well. I hope the day I do something it will help me get rid of the image people have of me, the image we have of all artists. Choosing where to show the first leg will be very difficult, but I want to do something very different from what people expect.
Well, you’re going to have to do badly…
Yes, psychopath.
In the end, let’s see if he will be like Alejandro Amenábar, who will make films and also make music.
Look, I hope I like the way everything is mixed together. A movie without music changes a lot, and with the music at the end you picture a movie in your head. Making movie soundtracks is one of my dreams. I made it with the theme palm trees in the snow and they gave him a Goya. And I want to continue this.