Introducing Ismael Serrano’s latest album, we will be“It’s a way between a traditional concert and a play,” explains the musician, who filled the stadiums a quarter of a century ago. tell me dad. His unconditional followers follow him after 15 albums and will enjoy it in Mallorca. Saturday at Trui Teatre.
Which singer-songwriter should listen to Giorgia Meloni?
For me, I recommend that you pay attention to Rozalén, the pioneer of a generation of women who brought the genre to the present day. I ask you to listen to this determined singer-songwriter with memory, sensitivity, and a kind of female leadership much more necessary than yours.
25 years after its premiere caught blueWhat are we stuck on now?
It seems to be permanent and in a kind of precariousness ingrained in our lives. It is the young people who suffer the most because in one way or another there is a generation that only knows about the crisis. They had to eat the one from 2008, then the pandemic came and now we are in another model created by war and a collapsing economic and social model. In the first, they said it came out with hard work; then we would be better people after covid and now they say we need to tighten our belts again. The problem is that the future remains uncertain and shows no signs of improvement.
The concert is structured as a conversation. songs they answer. Which questions interest you the most?
I think the questions are mostly legitimate so I’m not worried about them. The bad thing is answers when they have no nuances, when they are monolithic. It worries me that there are people who believe that there is an answer to everything and that there is an easy answer to everything.
they claim to be with we will be holding the tags. do you feel like this?
I don’t know if I have a chance to tag it, but there are many songs that make laugh and irony with the cautious side of the singer-songwriter who knows all the answers. I’m breaking the concept of the singer-songwriter and removing the image of seriousness.
Has his own Ismael Serrano changed a lot at the protest level?
Maybe some people think so, but I’m not afraid. There are always people who want more from you, want your songs to be clearer, think their demand is more urgent, tell you what to do. Something like a girl’s drawing Roger Rabbit which says “not because I’m bad, but because they pulled me badly”. This is how I was drawn. When I run into puddles on Twitter, I often ask myself “why am I messing around?” I ask.
collaborations such as Pablo Alboran and other artists because of your login to Sony Music?
Not at all. The choices I’ve made in my career have always been personal for emotional and emotional reasons. You should free yourself from prejudices and recognize the talents of artists who can bring something new to your perspective on music. In the case of Alborán, he got rich first to wake up, where we talk about women who care, who are dedicated to caring. With her voice, the song takes on another dimension and I offered it to her because it’s been on my mind for a long time. She is a very sensitive person.
What subjects are you destroying with your project for the saddest song in the world?
I was trying to dispel the bad image that sad songs often have. It contradicts how much we turn to them in difficult times. Even though sad songs make us happy, we seem to have a hard time accepting our vulnerability. They help pass a duel with the calmness it deserves and were originally created to make this duel ritual more bearable.
What does your usual producer, Mallorcan musician Jacob Sureda, add to your sound?
I’ve been working with him for nearly 20 years and he’s given me precision and balance in the last few albums we’ve produced together. It helps me to ground my musical delusions.
“It’s getting harder and harder to propose something new and surprise the listener,” he says. Don’t you see someone who has revolutionized music?
I say this because internet algorithms suggest music that is similar to the tastes of those who listen to it, so it creates closed communities with a very loyal audience and it’s very difficult to offer something different. In any case, there are new groundbreaking musicians like Rosalía or C. Tangana doing very interesting things in urban style. It has a very conceptual look, creates a story around its songs and goes beyond the danceable single that is missing in today’s music. He was brilliant at building bridges connecting his proposal with rock and even songwriters, as he did with Jorge Drexler.