MEXICO CITY.- The title of the most recent album of Nathy Peluso hardly leave anyone indifferent: Fat. Hate it or love it, it’s what all dieters and exercisers try to fight against, but it’s also what gives flavor to the most addictive dishes.
“I believe that everything good in life has fat,” Peluso said in a recent video call interview from Madrid, where he resides. “It is true that the word has many prisms and ways of understanding it and I would like people to choose after listening to the album.”
For the singer Argentinian-Spanish, the word has more to do with music, as he explained, the fat: “it’s candela, it’s funky, it’s groove”, something shared by many of the songs on his first album since Electric shock of 2020.
“These songs are written in a very spicy period of my life, of a lot of reflection, I wrote them all by hand in a notebook,” he noted. “It was a matter of collecting sensations that I had been having over these four years and writing compulsively with such a neurotic obsession. It has been one of the most honest moments of my life, sitting down to write what I thought.”
The songs
The prey It is his most recent salsa song after pure poison y Mafia. In the case of The prey He tells a story from the irony of turning himself in to the police for having killed a man. But she does not kill him with weapons, she kills him for not having given her those kisses that she wanted because she felt oppressed in that relationship. But in prison she is fine and she knows that she could have a conjugal visit with a new love.
“When it comes to making salsa, I feel that my audience appreciates it, that it makes them happy, lifts them up, gives them strength,” he said. “That’s why I continue to defend her and continue to worship her.”
In Manhattan It has the Argentine Duki as a guest. The song stands out for its dynamism and in it Peluso sings: “I can’t stop imagining what it would be like to live in Manhattan / While I read on Twitter how you fight over me and kill each other.” In addition to referring to the eternal American dream, it makes a contrast of what it means to be in front of the public eye, what people perceive and what they are really experiencing.
“I’ve been doing it for many years,” he said. “It’s my neurosis of how I perceive hip hop, but to the extreme. She has turned the production around a thousand times, she spent many hours loving it.”
In Girl, A song as baroque as Velázquez’s painting, there is a verse in which he sings: “I swear to you that if it were up to me I would escape by helicopter to the ch—-“, using a very Mexican profanity.
“One of my collaborators, one of the musicians on the album, is Ben Alerhand, Benjamn, who is Mexican and it fits me. I am very nourished by living with cultures and I love slang,” he said. “I know I have Mexican fans who are going to be excited to hear his words in my songs.”
Material audiovisual
Peluso pays a tribute in Mam, a song in which his voice is shown without so many console effects, with the influence of Argentine artists such as Luis Alberto Spinetta and Ser Girón. He considers her mother, the children’s story author Laura Raquel Melano, as another of her inspirations.
“It is a song that I wrote in the countryside, I felt that it was time to dedicate a song to her, it is a very intimate song, very special, for me,” he noted. “It is my gift and my offering to her love.”
With the release of the album last weekend, Peluso released 16 music videos, one for each song. In them he sings and dances expressively to reflect a transformation, both in himself and in the space. The videos were recorded over three days in Argentina and are mostly in sequence.
“It’s a visual album,” he said. “It is my theatrical proposal of how I conceive art, taken to the extreme, to cinema.”
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