The second installment of the ‘non-documentary’ of Zahara. In this episode, the singer has been very emotional when explaining the bullying and abuse that she suffered when she was a 12-year-old girl and the reasons that led her to write Merichaneof the disk BITCH.
New Tuesday, new episode of This is not a documentary.
Last week Zahara He confessed to us the influence that raves had had on his last tour and how he had decided to become politicized after being the victim of sexist insults at several concerts. “When we knew about it we found it frustrating because I wanted to reproduce the idea of security and freedom and get together with equal people,” he said.
In this second part, the most dramatic episode of the trilogy arrives and in it the artist strips herself emotionally revealing all the bullying, machismo and harassment he suffered when I was in school at 12 years old. This was the reason that led him to write his song Merichane (the term used to refer to the ‘town whore’ and the nickname they gave her).
“I have already experienced uncomfortable situations and I am trying to change, but If I am 16 years old and I hear an adult woman talk about this and I say ‘well these things are happening to me’ it still helps me wake up,” Zahara acknowledges.
“If there are young girls that it helps, then I hope it works,” she says.
The harsh words of Zahara’s mother
The mother of the singer makes an appearance in the video and comments on how sad she feels about not realizing what was happening to him when she was a girl, although she responds that precisely “she didn’t want anyone to find out or see that about her.”
One of the biggest controversies with his album BITCH It arrived with the promotional images that were chosen. In them you can see them dressed like a virgin, with the crown and the child on the chest, but with a band with the word ‘whore’.
Her mother explains that she didn’t like them either. Given this, Zahara gave him the reason why he had chosen them: “You can’t release an album in which you denounce something like this and make people feel comfortable looking at the cover.”
Everything was settled happily and her parents from time to time admit that they went on YouTube to see the comments they left for their daughter on the videos and they were “comforted” to realize that there were many messages from people to whom they had spoken. helped.
Do you think it had an effect?
